I was playing this game as a child with pretty much no knowledge of English. Luckily enough, it was translated to my native language (Czech). Still I was unable to progress to the end of the game, since I got stuck at one place and didn't know how to progress further. The game remained on my mind, even 25 years later I kept thinking about it and it still bothered me that I never finished it. I took it as a challenge and started playing again recently. In many aspects it was as good as I remembered it - great story, interesting characters, magic, alien creatures and athmosphere of seemingly huge world. Dungeons were usually very catchy and I like that even though there are some puzzles, they are not extremely difficult. Fighting is rather easy, if you get the concept under your skin. I really like the creative part - your companions have their own story and personality. The story really lures you in and you become part of the journey with all your party. Of course, not everything is perfect which is understanable for a game from 1996. There is a lot of repetitive tasks/actions that you need to do to: earn money, get better equipment, get higher level, get better stats, get from a place to another place, etc. So if you are striving for a "perfection" in this game, you will spend hours just doing something not so pleasant. Also inventory management could be painful experience (gold is much heavier than valuables). The story could be difficult to navigate - often times you're not sure what you should do next. And I could probably continue.. :) But despite all of these shortcomings, I still really enjoyed the game and I'm very happy that I've finished it. I'm sure that if they remastered it with better resolution, graphics, audio and some "quality of life" features, this could be a masterpiece that it deserves to be :) Shame there's no Albion2! Would love to play it. :)
