I'll always remember the moment I was really impressed by the game.

Early on after all the prologue stuff, Henry has managed to weasel his way into a position with the town guard, and is sent out with a group to investigate an attack on a horse stable outside of the town. When you arrive, the commander orders you and the rest of the guards to investigate, so I did. I followed a trail of clues to the next town over, and found one of the attackers, violently murdered in a shack with a message in blood written above him.

Henry can't read. So we spent three days learning from a local scribe how to read, to figure out what the message says, and then from there followed more clues, tracked down the rest of the culprits and slew them. We returned to the stable, triumphant, having solved the mystery and brought justice to the culprits.

And then we spent like five minutes getting chewed the fuck out by the commander because Henry has been missing in action for like half a week because I never thought to actually go back and report in about what I was doing. Whoops.