The Good --Entertaining story in an open world. --Enemies are not scaled to your level, so discretion can be the better part of valour. --Strives for realism while maintaining gameplay. For example, you start as a blacksmith who only knows the pointy end of the sword goes into the other guy. You are terrible at combat, but as you train and level up, the combat becomes easier until you can take anyone single handedly. --Gameplay balance includes "magical" things like potions (made with alchemy) to restore your health, see better in the dark, a map that always shows your location (on Normal difficulty), etc. --Historical fiction with plenty of background notes on life in the middle ages and the real people you meet. --Good graphics, good voice acting (for the most part), solid writing with some fantastic parts here and there. --(Relatively) stable. --I personally enjoy the combat mechanics, as it makes one vs one simple, but one vs many difficult (as I assume it would be in real life). Some people hate it, though, so watch some YouTube videos on how combat works. The Bad --Graphics are good, when your card can catch up to rendering what's around you. --I experienced a few crashes in almost 100 hours of gameplay, and only minor bugs, but others have serious issues with getting the game to run consistently. --It's not a big deal, but the game ends with essentially To Be Continued. That's not to say that ended abruptly without any closure, but think of it as the ending of the first book in a series. Most plot lines have been resolved, but there is an overarching plot that will be explored more in a later iteration. The Ugly --Some quests are time sensitive; others are not. Not terrible, but there's no way to know which ones are which. Sometimes a quest will tell you to do something that night, but you can sit on it for weeks with no failure. Others hint that you should probably do it sooner rather than later, but with no indication that you will fail if you don't
