10/10

1: Graphics were decent- not the most realistic but still more than passable
2: Bugs: I personally did not run into any bugs in my playthrough aside from the very rare guard body trying to clip through a wall etc after I knocked him out. It did crash once, but I am also running a haptic vest mod in this game so that could have easily caused it.
3: Gameplay:
I've never played a true stealth game before and in past games I have played, I have blown through stealth sections like a rabid gorilla and hoped for the best. I have no patience and just wanna destroy all the baddies.
I really didn't know how I felt about the game after playing the tutorial mission. But I replayed it a few hours later and resolved to play the mission as true to the intended play style as possible. Full sneak mode, no killing the guards, looting ALL the gold and "relics", even real life crouching behind the virtual bushes and walls instead of just using the crouch button.
I suddenly got it. The game was exciting and stressful in the most fun way. I COULD fight the guards- Parrying was easy enough- stunning and then knocking them out, but this was not nearly as much fun as sneak attacks.
If you are looking for a blade and sorcery, or combat game in general, you WILL not find that here. But this game has me excited to replay games like Metro: Awakening so I can attempt to use a little more stealth, maybe save some precious ammo.
4: Play Time: It took me 12 hours to finish all the missions using this style of gameplay (I know the length was one of the most common critiques of this game) and I could still stand to replay a mission or two that I was unable to 100% on the first run.

It's an "okay" game. Art is good enough, the story and dialog is mediocre, technical implementation is fractured. The Thief games have always excelled at audio. This game plays audio unfiltered in the environment, a guard on the floor above you is "next to you". While the environment art is good, the lighting makes absolutely no sense. Sometimes you are in the dark but the guards see you, next time you are in a bright room and your gem is dark. I could never trust the lighting.

I recommend it because I want more Thief games and this one is good enough to scratch the itch. I hope they iron out the fundamental issues in future patches.