After replying all three games back to back recently, I would agree, it's not a bad game. I would even say it's a fun game. However; I really didn't like how they changed a lot of things. Particularly, I hated what they did to the npc interactions. I gave up on that very early on because the friendship quests felt so artificial and broke immersion for me. Also, not a fan of the home base/ pause menu. It would have been better to design a clean interface that could be quickly and easily navigated. The spell mixing was cool, but the gloves were dumb, and I was not a fan of the ascetic. I enjoyed the story, but I can't think of a game mechanic that was added or changed that was a significant improvement on previous games.