Jeff Hays is excellent as usual.
The main difference here — characters get just one life. If your character dies, they’re gone.
The story here is … padded. P a d d e d. At one point the main character meets a pacifist giant whose sole role is to talk a lot in an annoying scholarly way. And the giant talks a lot about non-important details. The main character has long internal dialogs about how annoyed he is by the giant’s rambling. Then more rambling, more annoyance … then the main character gets distracted about thoughts of Revenge about an occurrence before the story starts.
Adding to the flow — attacks by bad guys. Horrific, brutal attacks for barely plausible reasons. Several godlike characters to fix things. Five long chapters of agonized travelling with a constant narrative thread of grief, then suddenly a godlike action occurs, and no payoff. A few sentences of happiness after many pages of grief. Every time he goes into a town, the locals berate him for being a player killer.
However, I did overall find it enjoyable, mainly due to the Jeff Hays performance.
If you don’t mind lots of padding, recommended, barely.