Amazing article, I agree with pretty much every single point. I made my own discussion pointing out my first impressions, maybe you can get some useful thoughts out of it:
http://larian.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=638931&gonew=1I'm loving the game and progressing just fine now, although I needed three restarts to properly set up my party and follow the specified path, otherwise I just hit a brick wall. But I'm amazed at the insane amounts of flaws it has, it's like if a completely different team from DOS:EE made it.