Kingdoms of amalur

Been waiting for a chance to get my hands on this for a while, and it's definitely worth the wait. If I was gonna take the best parts of most of the adventure RPGs I've ever played to make a game, this would be the result.
It shouldn't work, it should fall apart in an incoherent mess of muddled parts, but it all comes together like a game of soggy biscuit. It's like skyrim but with better item management, it's like mass effect without being on rails, it's like fable but with a better combat system. The areas are huge huge but a decent fast travel system takes the sting out of it.
There are negatives but these are just minor things, some of the on screen hints are a bit intrusive and the auto save is hit or miss. And some of the accents seem a little out of place but who am I to say that a gnome can't sound Liverpudlian.
Easily one of my favourite games I've played this year.