So, what's your verdict?
I've just read the four books of the Riftwar Saga myself, and I wish I had read them all earlier.
I read the original Magician about 20 years ago, and liked it very much then. But now the books are too juvenile and simple for my taste. They are enjoyable enough and easy to read, but feel like a childrens' version of A Song of Ice and Fire. They have the same feudal background with (supposedly) scheming lords, and like ASOIAF there is no one main character, but many different points of views.
But everybody is so bloody nice and beautiful in Midkemia. With few exceptions the good guys are all handsome and jovial, and with even fewer exceptions all the females are either pretty or just as often of "striking" or "unsurpassed" beauty, wether they are 7 or 30. There are no female main characters, yet all the females all strongwilled and always the ones that take iniative in matters of sex and romance. There are no human "bad guys" in Midkemia, nobody is really plotting or scheming; while the enemy are soulless dark elves and goblins who are just "monsters".
And with only two minor exceptions, none of the good guys are cut down in their prime, and everything is almost as neatly wrapped up as a Disney movie.
The supposedly bad guy in the first book was called Guy du Bas-Tyra aka Black Guy. Bas-Tyra sounds a bit like "Bastard". And Black Guy? That should appeal to the Kodex.
Great books for youths or those new to Fantasy, but too basic if you have read and enjoyed newer Fantasy like A Song of Ice and Fire. And they do provide a good background for a computer game. I would have liked to see a turn based strategy game based on them.
But now I look forward to play Betrayal at Krondor, a game I missed back in 1993 due to it being DOS only, while I was stuck with an Amiga getting more and more obsolete.