At long last: a RPG that doesn't crash. Any serious RPG fan will label this game a must-have.
Drakensang is replete with tremendously realistic graphics. Eye-candy galore. The buildings have a look of a medieval period. The artwork for clothing is superb.
Once I became used to it, I appreciated the ease of use of the menus for Inventory, Stats, Spells, Skills, etc. A nice touch, having a second sack for Inventory. I appreciated how simple it was to transfer items around.
There are some drawbacks to the game, one of which is the cost of upgrading your character & your party members is expensive - almost prohibitively so. If you don't use your earned points right away, it's a sure thing your party will be killed. It's difficult at best to save up enough points to purchase the stat upgrades that cost 100 or more points.
The relationship between armor and magic use is taken too far. Characters lose their magic abilities completely if they wear certain types of armor. The developers should have used a spell percentage drop if a character is armored. Not only that, but something as simple as changing a hat can drop a stat (like Dodge Value). It also makes no sense to lose an Attack Point when wielding a shield, since they have Shield Attack (and the shield arm does nothing when empty anyway).
I like the quests in the game. I enjoyed them because the main portion of certain quests would at times open up several related side-quests, which significantly raised my immersion. But they should have been more generous as to the number of Points you earn for quest completions.
In my opinion, I felt they programmed some of the Boss Encounters with too high of a difficulty. The game provides you with tools to help you during these encounters: you can pause the action, then by pressing and holding the CTRL Key, you can set-up a queue of as many combat rounds as you wish for each party member. Changing your queue is just as simple: enter a new queue - the first action you enter will replace the current queue.
The game's camera is a mess, especially if you are underground. If a party member becomes stuck, you can fix that by choosing another member to lead, then "select all" to move as a group, then you should be able to free a stuck character.
The difficulty level of the Boss Encounters might cause you to shelve this game for a time, but it will be short-lived. Drakensang is very enjoyable despite the shortcomings I mentioned.