Originally posted by Sentient Entropy:

Why does everybody just fail to register the word "purgatory" in the game description? Getting into Valhalla isn't quick or easy. It's not supposed to be.

If we go by that then there is a lot in this game that is too quick and easy. Take building a boat for example. You gather X amount of materials, click a couple of buttons and there you go, you've got a ready-made boat. Something more fitting that description would be more arduous and might have the player building the boat piece by piece over several hours, days even. More grindy perhaps but such a viking 'simulation' that has a slower more careful pace could yield its own very different rewards. I really like the sound of that actually but it's a fair bit beyond the scope of this game.

Maybe it's like "brutal" in the description too and probably not meant to be taken so literal.