I got the game while it was on a 100% discount and I can only recommend trying it if you see it for free.
The main issue to me is that the game deliberately undermines its own strongest premise for the sake of making an unspoken "profound point" through its mechanics.
To explain, early on you are sold on the idea that stats are highly important in this game. Personal traits, family reputation and later on even professional stats and even stats relating to revolution.
The reality is that none of them actually matter beyond being used to unlock choices in arbitrary events that are designed to railroad you into a specific type of playthrough.
You very rarely feel like the choice itself is even interesting, you just need it in order to get other stats you need or avoid reaching a critical threshold and locking yourself out of a story arc you were invested in.
For example you have a Valor stat that is supposed to be a reflection of your martial prowess. Around the midpoint of the game there is a tournament you can end up participating in. So long as you have enough Valor to be in this rout, it does not matter how much of it you actually have, your outcome will always be the same. You can barely qualify or have the stat actually maxed out but you will have the exact same result in the tournament with the exact same description, and again even with the stat maxed you can not win the tournament. Unless.....you practiced fencing with your father, who is not very good at fencing, at the very start of the game. In that case even if your Valor is not that high you win the tournament by default. Also the few times your character does have the option to get into fights later on, you always die as a result no matter what your Valor is.
Later on the game becomes even more contrived. It was deliberately designed in such a way as to ensure that certain outcomes can never be combined, even though the entire playthrough you have been balancing the various stats out to achieve those outcomes.
Want to achieve hereditary nobility status AND keep your family members united? Too bad, the moment you unite your family the game LITERALLY forces your reputation to be disgraced by hitting you with a unavoidable random event which sets your reputation to 0 no matter how high it previously was.
This gets even worse in the very final chapter where THE LITERAL EVENT ORDER ensures that you can never achieve a 'good' conclusion to the story. There are plenty of ways to get this stat maxed during the final chapter but wait...right before the final confrontation you get an event that should be trivial to resolve but man, it just so happens to cost you a single point in that one stat no matter what. And wouldn't you know it...there is no way for you to restore it in time for the conclusion of the game which requires this exact stat to be maxed in order to not be locked out of any of the two good endings.
So I spent some time, skipping through the game and with some trial and error got everything to mostly work out the way I wanted it to, completely taking me out of whatever stakes the game had built up. And what was it all for, what conclusion did I get with the ending?
"Reputation, career, personal traits, characters, trying to achieve some kind of goal in the world? All those things you spent hours caring about and trying to balance and weigh them against each other? None of these things actually matter! Do you get it? It was very cringe to care about any of this mundane, worldly stuff because god is love, everyone is part of a greater whole and also the world itself is canonically someones dream probably"
Deep.
