Lots of missteps, but still highly addictive!
Is it a great game, totally worthy of you time and money? Absolutely! A game with mediocre graphics, less than mediocre sound, no real support for mouse/keyboard and with a couple of design glitches thrown in, should not get 9.5. Without the fanmade fixes for resolution and mouse/keyboard, I would not have made it beyond 3 hours playtime.
But (with the fixes) it is one of the most addictive games I have played in quite som time. Hard, certainly, but with effort and som thinking, not impossible. And the difficulty level is high, but seldom unfair. When I died it is almost always due to my own lack of concentration and skill. Highly recommendable for any CRPG fans who likes a challenge.
If Skyrim had been as difficult as this and with the same approach to boss fights it would have been the ultimate game.