Wizardry 5
Kind of at a weird spot in the game. My avg party level is 12 or so and I basically had explored everything I could, which meant time to hunt for items to unlock doors, etc. Part of this involved diving into every single pool on my map to see if I missed anything; to be honest, after the first few pools I just looked up a list of each pool to get it over with. Even with the rubber duck, the swimming thing is by far the worst thing (really, the only bad thing) in this game so far.
Once I gathered some stuff I missed, I was able to make a bit of progress, and am back to exploring. I bought the tickets for level 5 and have been slowly exploring it, but I feel like my party is way over its head here, as the mazes toward the top and bottom of the map are chock full of encounters with multiple high level casters (all split into several groups of course, so I can't just Montino them), undead that drain/paralyze, etc. I think my only other option now is the encounter with the copper demon and sly nymph, but even when I attempted that encounter with my spellcasters all casting high level spells, I got absolutely destroyed (yes, I am backing up my save file)... so I guess I'd rather deal with the level 5 encounters.
I'm one level away from getting the level 7 mage spells, so that should hopefully give my some much needed firepower (plus Malor to make getting there and back less tedious).
This is a great game, but if there's one thing I would change (other than getting rid of that fucking swimming mechanic), it would to make the game a bit easier to get around. It's easy now to get to level 5 from the elevator, but I had a somewhat long stretch of the game where I had to keep passing through that long ass level 3 back and forth multiple times, slowly making progress, and it honestly put me off the game for a while.
I do like the game, and I think I would be enjoying it even more if Wizardry 2 and 3 never existed. As much as I like the classic Wizardry formula, I'm looking forward to restarting Wizardry 6 sometime this year.