Bethesda should buy this studio and then incorporate into the next TES, only dressed up in fancier art and production values. Now that would be a 5/5 game.

The progression systems are fantastic and immersive and the possibility space is dazzling. Where it falls short is repetitive quests/tasks and presentation -- the stuff that big studios are good at, i.e. dressing up the world with gorgeous assets and countless voiced lines for the characters.

You can go from being a petty peasant into a full-time warlord and emperor. And every step of the way the game stays challenging and engrossing, revealing ever more of its depth. It is seriously just a bump up in production values -- and some combat tweaks -- away from a 5/5.