Enough has been said about the cool atmosphere and the commitment to lore, as well as has been said about how unfun and dog shit the combat system is. What hasn't been discussed enough is how the way this game handles sexual encounters, which is better than every other video game I've seen them in. In this game the sex is just implied, with maybe a short setup, then the scene transitions to a heavily blurred and bloomed background with indistinguishable 3d models rubbing polygons, and imposed over that fades into focus a lewd or nude painting of whoever you are having sex with. I romanced a peasant woman with flowers, and for her portrait she was cupping her breats exposed from her open blouse with one arm while the other was ladling milk from a wooden bucket across them.

Also it's hard to think of another game with such wild discrepencies in the quality of voice acting across its cast, good grief.

I played around 6 hours and felt I had gotten a good enough impression of it, especially seeing as I had played 3 first and could recognize a ton of its DNA in this. Also made me feel more confident in my decision to leave it where I was, simply because you can tell that with 3 they achieved pretty much everything they fumbled with in this game.