I have been playing CRPGs since Fallout 1. I really wanted to like this game. I like the classes, races, etc., in the character creator. The story and characters seem interesting. The problem is actually playing the game. The first side quest pretty much sums up the experience. You are told to go to a cave and retrieve some plant or something. In the cave are enemies called spider swarms and also normal spiders (which cause permanent stat damage for some dumb reason). The spiders are manageable. The swarms can only be killed by AoE attacks, which is revealed to you by a random tool tip on the load screen. I wipe a few times before I learn about needing AoE attacks. I come back loaded up with grenades and proceed to throw them at the swarms. Throw. Miss. Throw. Miss. Throw. Miss. I go through ten + grenades and have managed to kill one swarm before my party is wiped again. This is combat in this game. Combat just seems broken. Combat is just not fun or rewarding. And I am playing on Normal difficulty. Also, the normal act of walking from place to place is painfully slow. I gave it two stars only because the story seems like it may go interesting places. Until the developer overhauls the combat, go play Pillars or Baldur's Gate again.
