Started up The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing II the other day. I don't know if the game is just naturally like this, the character I imported was badly equipped, I just don't remember how to play, or what, but this game is hard as hell even on the normal difficulty setting. I did start on the "Veteran" game mode, so the game starts at level 30, maybe that's it.

I've put about 2 hours in and I'm definitely remembering how to play a bit, and hitting level 33 opened up a lot of good new equipment that I had found, so maybe it will get easier from here on out, but the quest a little while back to destroy the ornithopter generator was torture.