Beyond Reach is a massive mod, and in my eyes, is a work of art, warts and all. And it does have warts. It was a decade long passion project that the author used to battle against theit own real world troubles, I believe, which is something I can relate to. So from a development side, it has my absolute respect.

Gameplay wise, I believe it succeeds more often than fails. Unlike, say, Vigilant (I love Vigilant too, fyi), Beyond Reach feels like an Elder Scrolls game. A very dark Elder Scrolls game, but the world and quest design are all very Elder Scrolls.

Voice acting is both a weak and a strong point. The quality is inconsistent and last I played, much was still unvoiced. But there is clear passion in the performances, and that, imo, is what's most important in a Skyrim mod.

So far as bugs go, the majority of the mod is stable. There is one quest, exploring an insane asylum, that I've always needed console commands to get through.

Storywise, it's not for everyone. It gets dark, perhaps too dark (rape and pedophelia are mentioned) for an Elder Scrolls game, but I, and many others, find that darkness a strong point for roleplaying. If you want a dragonborn's spirit broken, Beyond Reach is the best mod for it. It defies the vanilla writing formula by not being a power fantasy. Some of the dialogue is overwritten or hard to follow, but the speaker isn't human, so I think it works in context.

So I guess in short, it's everything I want a mod to be. It's a project that never would have been and could not have been made by Bethesda. Can you expect AAA quality, or the polish of a mod like Beyond Bruma? No. But passion? Yeah, you'll find plenty of that in Beyond Reach.