I just got this game....I'm pretty cloudy on the whole skill thing and all but I'll figure it out. The bad thing about this game is that it deals with A LOT of reading so if your impatient don't play this game...and frankly...the combat is horrible...there isn't even a status bar to tell you how much life the enemy has...and you can't even hit the enemy all the time so it's like shootin in the dark. But the graphics are very well done...especially with the water. But the thing I really like is the HUGE world...it's so massive that they give you a poster size map in the case...I've got it hung up on my wall and I'm gonna use it to travel the world and visit the different towns...I'll deal with the story after my trip