Hexcaliber: Well that was an anticlimax, I really didn't expect the game to finish quite so soon, didn't miss a single side quest that I am aware of, I won't post any spoilers, but will say ladybird, will make sense when you get there, it isn't a spoiler so don’t panic.
Hawat: I finished this game in about 25-30 hours doing most of the sidequests and without rushing but 10 hours seems very rushed. Was it your first playthrough , did you even read the dialogues or just skip everything ?
It may well have been because I upgraded arrd as my first set of upgrades after the 6 invested in the witcher tree, When you stun an opponent with it, you get an instant kill even against bosses, and it makes most combat easy. As a result, other than the prologue and start of act one I think I only had to reload once or twice because of death, combat went from really hard on normal to relatively easy.
***EDIT*** forgot to add I read everything, and didn't skip a single dialogue apart from the first part of the prologue, but that was because I was messing about with graphics settings trying to get it set up and save quitting to change them.