Not as bad as they say, it's actually good fun
I've literally just completed Silverfall, and to be honest it's not as bad as some of the reviewers have said.
I played as a human and levelled up all bow skills quickly and found this to be a fast, fun game.
Levelling up is quick and easy, the skills do exact what they say, and you really feel that going out of your way to level up is worth it in the end.
The quests were varied enough although some quite basic.
You get up to two companions and there are several companions to choose throughout the game.
The armour and weapons are aligned to a 'technology' or 'nature' game path which was good, as on top of that there are 4 character types (humans, elf, etc.)
Saying that, if you're not in to trawling around to get some experience to level up, this may not be for you, and yes you may have seen this style of game before, many times - That doesn't stop it being a fun game.
It was quite short and not massively challenging but I think by getting a Very, Very Fast bow helped in creaming all the BOSS in double-time.
Also, there's no real interaction with NPCs – it's very point/click and move to were the arrow points, and I would have liked to travel across the whole map in order to finish the game.
I paid less than £3 on Amazon.co.uk for it and it was worth the 30 hours or so to complete - They even thank you for playing at the end of the credits – not many games do that.
Hope this was useful...