Posted February 07, 2012
Did you level up as much as you could at the Crash Site/before heading to Shrouded Hills? Exploring the Crash Site fully and killing all the wolves and kites there is important, I think, to making sure you can stand up to some of the stuff in and around Shrouded Hills. The wolves in the path away from the Crash Site (after the spot on the map where you can access the world map) are definitely hard, they are real wolves and not ailing wolves for the most part, so if that is what you are having trouble with don't worry too much.
Around Shrouded Hills itself I seem to only remember ailing wolves, which shouldn't be too much of an issue if you are actually hitting them with whatever weapon you have. What kind of stats/skills do you have? And what magic are you using/have available? The early game stuff is sometimes (especially against Lukan and the gate guards) unforgiving in the way you spec your character and so if you aren't quite as powerful as you "should" be it is probably more difficult that it really needs to be.
Definitely change the combat to turn based and you should be able to deal enough damage in that more controlled manner to take on wolves with more ease. If you are already in Shrouded Hills, be aware you can't actually go back to the Crash Site, the world map is blocked for you until you get over the bridge leading out of town. But since you're only level 2 starting over wouldn't hurt you that much.
And it is totally understandable getting confused with an old game like this. I think I'm lucky that this is one of my first games where I really played it a lot and got entirely absorbed, and so I still remember how to play, and where to go, and what to do all these years later. But it was definitely a different experience playing it for the first time!
