Finally playing this just before the sequel is released feels like cheating - I'm sorry to everyone who waited for ten years without knowing if they'd ever get their wishes. Can't think of another game that feels so much like going on an adventure with both your pawns always doing their own thing and all the other little details that never feel quite under your full control, which then feeds into the combat that is everything that was promised despite how outlandish those claims sounded from the outside... and even the story, which kind of stays in the background for most of the game, still finds the time to spectacularly stick the landing not once but twice. For all the talk about how it is "unfinished", it's hard to imagine it being even more of what it already is; in its best moments, it feels larger than life in a way that only video games can be, but usually never are, and rarely even aspire to be.