The story is pretty basic and the lore is oddly deep in certain areas and then shallow in others. About 12 hours in, it's very inconsistent. I still think it's a better game than 2 or inquisition so do with that what you will.
I think there's a custom difficulty option that allows you to increase AI aggressiveness but maintain the normal health pool. Haven't tried this myself but I may do so soon. Combat is getting a bit too easy for me too.
Yeah, I saw the custom settings, but those would artificially make the gameplay harder or easier, there's nothing that could really change the gameplay that much, at core it would be the same.
The companions would still be just another ability, they would still not die and thus you'd still heal endlessly, enemy variety would be the same, the same primed combos and hacking either at HP or stagger.
And just lol at that prevent death button at the lowest difficulty.
For some reason medieval fantasy games (eg all Dragon Age, Skyrim etc) with character selections are always default to a female character for me.
But more modern or futuristic ones are male (eg Mass Effect or other modern character creating games like Saints Row). I don't know why my brain defaults to that, it's always been like that.