OK, so the war is raging and I'm told by my father to find my eldest brother and tell him to lead the troops to Ostagar, where father will join them later. And then, when I'm on my way to his room, whichever road I take the same guy corners me with a message, that my dog is messing up in kitchen, that my mother wants me to deal with this IMMEDIATELY, and that he is to make sure, I do. I can't get rid of him, until I deal with the dog. I can however wander through out all castle, get XP for opening different doors and stashes; I can spend time looting some probably pretty worthless things from sacks of grain and from some chests obviously not belonging to me (to which my mother-appointed guardian doesn't object); I can meet my mother and spend nice 10 minutes trading courtesies with her guests; I can even join the Taskmaster giving lesson to kids on my family's history and spend another 30 minutes doing so... the only one thing, that I can't do (except entering the castle's treasury, which is understandable) is to open the door leading to my brother's room, which stays magically locked until I deal with my dog at the other end of the corridor. Truly GREAT. I would have spent less time playing this game, than writing this review, if not for collecting all the facts mentioned above and making sure that, as I expected, the "Right click: Can't unlock" description on the door blocking me from seeing my brother indeed does magically change to "Right click: Open" once I get my dog and kill 7 or 8 giants rats, that he was after. Do I have to add, that the result of the "dog adventure" doesn't in any other way influence my meeting with my brother? Sadly, not the kind of magic, that I was expecting paying for this game :(
