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156 Hours to hit level 8, three separate times, three years apart. Game's great; Pathfinder's changes to D&D certainly are not. This game has aged strangely in a Post-Baldur's Gate 3 world--I have never, ever, ever-ever-ever, rolled as many natural 1's as the game engine will roll for you. I can't tell you how many times I tried to light a grease pool on fire. I play many games with a guide loosely pulled up--but this one needs nearly line for line consideration at every moment of play, lest you leave something critical amiss.

For every three hours of gameplay spent, you'll alot about an hour to an hour and a half's progress; save-scumming so very often results in a massive timesink for the experience had. Trying to play companions with their default builds will have you playing either on baby-easy, or getting wiped nearly every fight--default classes/builds/stats are somewhat useless for longterm play, and it's a weird design choice. Many builds out there split levels between 2-3 classes; something which Pathfinder seems to like better than a level 20 Fighter or Sorcerer. While theorycrafting is fun, not everybody wants to play 5 different iterations of a triple-multiclassed character, and it is explicitly annoying to be given little choice by mid-to-late game. There's something special here, but you're almost deterred from playing your own characters, at nearly every turn and junction--and you wind up compromising an awful lot along the way. Worth a go, but be prepared. Skeptical I'll ever truly finish.

This is a great and terrible game. If there was not a gem of greatness buried in this game I would have quit a long time ago. Instead of playing it through one time, and then never again!!
There are many many bizarre design choices made by the game dev, that just add a big pile of suck to the experience. Otherwise its a charming RPG.
A fully fleshed out game based on the Pathfinder system? Awesome!
Things that suck. 1) Being a party of 6, but if the main character goes down twice game over. Enemies that do strength damage. Got full health over 250 hp? Doesn't matter. The swarms that does -5 strength damage, you can't resist moved over you its over, you're dead. Making the main enemies of the endgame have an ability that freezes up half your party unless you're constantly casting freedom of movement? Big big pile of suck.
Let you customise into any weapon type you want? But then without mod, never let you see the best version of more than half of them? So much suck.
Throw on a kingdom management system, and then have you spend 2/3 of the game pouring all your loot money into not having the kingdom collapse. But it doesn't matter at the end anyway, because craftspeople you semi-control hand out all the best items anyway. Except not to you, because the really good stuff is locked behind kingdom level up stats.

Neglect the kingdom management and you can fail the game and lose.
Not letting you take 20 on a locked chest.

Having beneficial content be missable because you failed hidden perception checks.

At the end of the day, if you choose to play this game, do yourself a big favour skip vanilla and use the mods that I understand fix so much.