I advise you to play it yourself to find out. It will be worth your time.

I loved it, but I am biased because I like fantasy/sci-fi, have a soft spot for point-and-click games and have wanted to play the game since it came out back then. You might need to tinker with the graphics; when I played it on my old laptop, it showed black spots instead of faces and other minor graphic problems (because the game was too old for my laptop). But it can be solved (not sure how I did it though). The graphics are otherwise fine, but expect the quality from late 90's/early 2000.

Either way, it is a engaging story with decent world building. It also has a few twists I did not see coming (and may confuse a bit). I personally liked the first half more than the last half, but it did feel like a long (enjoyable) journey. I liked how the story is realistic in the sense that sometimes, things are not all rainbows and sunshine.

I did feel like I was missing out on background information because you can only experience the viewpoint of the protagonist. That can be seen as a flaw; we are used to books, tv shows and movies which switch between characters, so you get the complete picture and get to know who each character is in more depth. I do think that because of that some things had less impact because you do not get all that close up and personal with all events and characters. But at the same time, it is fitting. It might be a bit spoiler-ish to tell why, so I won't.

I didn't care much about the first (not the chapters) sequel though =/ I ended up feeling lukewarm about that one for various reasons.