The ethical trappings are only part of a larger issue, though. A lot of Fable's additional content--including houses for sale, marriages to pursue, and lots of table games to wager on--is never really the focus of your actions. It's easy to glaze over a lot of it without even really noticing the additional depth, which results in much of the material feeling somewhat hollow and tacked on. It's a shame that much of this charm is so peripheral, as the game boasts some nice production values and a fairly solid set of mechanics (once you acclimate to the combat, that is). Then again, it comes from the mind of a designer known for overambitious, incomplete ideas. What's the moral of Fable? We aren't really sure.