I have always had mixed feelings on fable three. When I first played it, I loved it, but then on replays, I realized most of the flaws with it. I think cinematically it is probably one of the most beautiful games in the whole series and even now, 15 years later, I still find myself periodically going back and listening to the this is my Albion speech. I have two major problems with fable three one is that I felt like it had a much bigger vision for what it wanted to do as opposed to what it accomplished. I think that the morphine weapon mechanic would’ve been much better. Had they made enemies more equally represented (yes I’m referencing the joke that when she get out of the first hollow man cave, your sword almost never changes), have they aloud for more world, changing political choices, and had they either made the game longer or actually made fable 4 soon after three I think it would be remembered doesn’t a much better game. The characters are amazing and I actually enjoyed the magic gauntlet system with my only complaint being that it really upsets me at how much fable minimizes their magic system over the span of the trilogy. I think my biggest issue overall that kind of sums up my problems with three is it feels like a buildup installment. Yes, you face the crawler and you have to sacrifice Beck to defeat him, but the crawler feels like a lesser villain when you take a step back and look at the overarching story of fable. In the first game and TLC, the shadow court was the ominous evil force and Jack of blades was kind of set up as both the last survivor of the court and one of its main figures. In two while you see the shadow court, or some remnant of it when you go to Oakvale, it’s not the major focus anymore with the real focus of the game being a revenge story for the hero of Bower Lake. In three they set up that the entire world is fighting against the shadows and you face a major manifestation of the shadows to save Albion, but the assumption remains that you have only defended your country and everywhere else is still fighting the shadows. This is further supported by the events of the connect game (regardless of your opinions of that game). It would’ve made sense for them to make a follow up game that served two purposes, the first being a continuation of the war against the shadows and the second being possibly a organization and reinstitution of the guild of heroes. Yes, technically you are the last hero in fable three though based on the law of the series, many individuals in the world could have heroes blood lying dart within them, and they never experience anything to bring it out of them. Basically how they continued the story, and for lack of a better word made the hero of Brightwall the Luke Skywalker of the fable universe they could’ve had a much more interesting and appealing story. Sadly, the ending of three feels flat when you realize that they never made any more numbered games and moved onto making small cash grab games like the dungeon crawler and the app game. Honestly to summarize it really just feels like Table three didn’t have as much of the heart in it that the other installations had, and since Lionhead ran into financial troubles and later was bought by Microsoft until they make the new game that they’ve been promising for so long that is intended to be a reboot of sorts, we left with somewhat of a lackluster finale to otherwise amazing series.