Having gotten to the scene where Opal recruits Bede, My opinion of the game is, to use the medieval weapon analogy:
A kriegsmesser made by an overworked village blacksmith in his desperate attempt to arm the county's militia, given a once over on the slack-stone for an edge and otherwise unsharpened, with a hilt and pommel made from the wrought iron of a hundred broken nails, pins made of leftover strips of iron meant for the mine, and wood scales from the dead log that used to block the only road in: It's not the prettiest thing to look at nor the most refined or technologically advanced, but it does its job not just barely, not functionally, but admirably.
A kriegsmesser made by an overworked village blacksmith in his desperate attempt to arm the county's militia, given a once over on the slack-stone for an edge and otherwise unsharpened, with a hilt and pommel made from the wrought iron of a hundred broken nails, pins made of leftover strips of iron meant for the mine, and wood scales from the dead log that used to block the only road in: It's not the prettiest thing to look at nor the most refined or technologically advanced, but it does its job not just barely, not functionally, but admirably.