This game was and is the gold standard for small unit rpg. The fact that your stats matter out in the world in interactions is something that still hasn't been done to such a level decades later and that is a lose to the community. The only game in recent time that is any threat to this one is Kingmaker..and yes both have their bugs and poor decisions..and stil I, on of the harshest critics of gmaes over the years, rate them both highly. Why? Because, while they can and should be improved, what they did right is to go above and beyond in depth and feel. This genre is about exploration and it is about character development..games that do that poorly, whatever they do well, are failures to this genre. Few other games come close.
