It should be cheating to make role-playing games based on already well-acclaimed fantasy novels and writers.

Besides the strong writing, there's genuine engagement in the game that's also unique enough to give the game some of your time at the least; it's solo-player monster hunter to keep it short. Worst thing about this is probably its rather less than stellar UI, could be more suited to the games strengths rather than just dropping a generic open-world UI down but most could argue this is more of a nitpick. (no downtime when travelling in open-world games isn't a flaw)