This game had me hooked. This review is for those of you who know Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights and are thinking about this game: Get the game. I played through 12 hours of it before I realised I had built a fairly useless character, and the game got very difficult as a result. So I started up a new character, and got further before hitting the same plateau. With my third character, I thought the game was bugged beyond repair and just ruining itself for me for no reason. Turns out, I had been skipping through a lot of tutorials, and a good bout of googling and old fashioned logical thinking had me working out most of my kinks and straightening my campaign back out. This game is not cruel. You will need to google stuff, you will need to revise your thinking, and your choices matter to a point where one might think the game is being needlessly pedantic. If a quest is worded as an urgent quest, such as "Save them before it is too late", then count on the quest failing because of your tardiness. Do not tarry. Save your game often, think about your choices, plan ahead and enjoy this game. It is both a fantasy campaign and a kingdom simulator, and it is absolutely epic. The bad: The game loads slowly, and the loadscreens are often inconvenient. My fix? Write down possible quests and kingdom issues on a sheet of paper, and consider your options during the load times. This is particularly annoying in the kingdom navigator/throneroom-areas. Still: Great game. Just buy it.
