I am so glad I got to play this game. It is incredibly challenging, rythm is sometimes a bit slow, companions have strong personalities, adventure takes you to incredible places, your choices have impacts on the story. It definitely goes in my great few games list, together with original baldur's gate series.
Game mechanics are good, possibilities for originality looks huge, pace is too slow, combat difficulty varies too much. Just the fights are causing lots of frustration. Main story is not working with me; I quickly get 20 quests to follow and loose track of stories behind. Not the best buy I did this year