So, imagine all that Mass Effect crew management, date-sim, talking and "decision-making" (or Binary Domain tickling) packed into a one fine visual novel with actual characters, actual decisions, actual story and actual animation and other real-art assets. No add to this a classic Risk global map. Now make all battles on it a simple RTS game, where you are present (like in the Магия Войны), and also can directly participate as a dragon (like in the Глаз дракона). Maybe this isn't the best game out there, but this is definitely a separate experience in its own.
The political part is really good, conflicting parties ask you to do judgement and your actions do matter a lot. Even waifu-sim is outstanding, while it's not an adult and reasonable relationship of the future, it asks a lot of you by the present day standards. The RTS is cool at first, with its technofantasy designs, but by the midpoint the novelty wears out. Yet it still serves as a respite from all the reading. And thankfully you accumulate some skills to make your dragon self much stronger, to finish late game fights quicker.
With all that praise i gushed over the political visual novel part, there are still a lot of really bad decisions. Why Camilla looks like chick from Avatar? What's up with her face? where is my lusty argonian maid? That much sexual dimorphism is bull and a plain fan-service and pandering. Why do reptiles have mammaries again? Aren't those reserved only for mammals?
And why there is no human diplomat? And therefore there is no human princess or human lands. It's like all humans are only bureaucracy servants? They are the majority of staff on Raven and yet no one cares about them but generals. And most of decisions you make do not affect them at all. Even ones which do, don't change their loyalty to the dragonborn. Humans just don't have a say in this war.
Unless they are dead. Why can only humies be undead? Where are undead imps, dwarfs, lizards and dragons? And what's killing me is undead have facial expressions, and that animation is terrible.
Oh, yes. And music. Music here is killing me too. It's not surprising i found the OST so bad. It's made by the guy who was involved in the worst songs of Ария.
Well, yeah, Dragon Commander is still good, despite all of Larian's attempts to sacrifice it to Divinity: Original Sin. It's clunky and it's simple, but at least it's an uncommon experience.