Because of the nature of the game (there ain't many kids around for story reasons), everyone is kind of subdued. The scenario really is dire. It's not grimdark, but the entire game seems to have a dark cloud above it. Enemies don't respawn in areas, which makes the world feel even more dead as you tread through quiet, empty space. Your character also inherits a serious problem right away... but it never develops into anything serious and for most of the game it never comes up as a bad thing even a little bit.
When spending ability points on your character, each ability point brings skills up something like, for example, 1.5%. There's no hard jump at certain point levels that make it useful to go up to a certain point then stop. If you want to be great at something, you need all your points in that. At the same time, every ability seems important for most classes, so you could find yourself spreading a character thin.
There's no need for inventory management. You get this magic stash accessible from anywhere (or from towns in expert mode), so pick up all of them corpse armours and sell each of 'em for very little money! Honestly, whether you like this or not is up to you. It's realism vs. ease of use.
The fights are ok. Sometimes a slog? I'm rarely excited to fight. If you have spell casters, just nova the enemy: resting is cheap and some of your spell levels become instantly recastable at higher character levels. There are no (or few?) hard stops: like, if you "paralyse" an enemy, they just become slow for 4.7 seconds or if they do actually pause they maybe stop entirely for 0.7 seconds. All effects have durations like that, reliant on your skills which rely on your ability scores.
Enemy AI targets the party member who wears the weakest armour. This can get really annoying as they sprint or teleport to that party member. Control this by giving everyone similarly ranked armour.
You can also knock down dragons with a punch: they crumple! Pro? Con? You decide!
