This game has awesome mechanics and the leveling, fighting, and general game play are fantastic. However, the plot is not well written and the game hides too much information to figure out what they were thinking for some of the puzzles. It's impossible to be an all-good character but it's trivial to be chaotic or evil. The co-op is great for fights, ok for exploring and travelling, extremely clunky for inventory management, and the way they manage co-op dialog is game-breakingly bad (the Start Wars MMO SWtOR did shared dialog really well, this is a huge step back). In the middle of the third act is a point that you don't know to prepare for and when it arrives, can rip party members away permanently. There's hidden mechanics in the game that you have no insight into that can drastically affect your game and one of these is the attitude of companions. If their attitude towards you is high enough, then the third act point is nothing and it's trivial to keep the party whole, but the game doesn't tell you how to raise their attitude or that it even exists and by the time you're in the third act it's too late to fix. Another mechanic that's not quite hidden but you're not told how important it is is the persuasion skill. Throughout the game you are presented with the chance to persuade other characters with skill checks to strength or intelligence or other stats. Unfortunately, they're also all gated behind the persuasion skill. Even if you have 35 strength and that's more than enough for a check, if you have 1 persuasion then you'll never pass any checks after the first few levels. The level of persuasion skill required isn't listed in the dialog, it just lists the type of persuasion you can try. So you have to save first, then try and fail to see what it would have taken, then see if you have a potion or spell or other character that can meet that. The persuasion thing wouldn't be too bad except it's used a lot to uncover most of the more interesting conversations.
