King's Bounty II

I am writing this review as a player who did not have experience with previous games from this serie. At the begining I was pretty interested into main quest story, all side conversations between NPCs, found texts scattered across world, however after 5-6 hours I was already quickly reading texts and skipping cutscenses. Main hero (I was playing as this paladin girl) is completely unlikeable seriously after several of her dialogues I was wondering if I should change the character and start from scratch again, but then I looked at the amount of already completed quests and was like hell nah man. About Quests typical for any of such games, run there talk with someone grab something and go back again, buuuuut there was something which I assume developers found pretty interesting PUZZLES. FFS THE WORST PART OF ANY QUEST WAS TO SOLVE SOME PUZZLE ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAD WRITTEN DESCRIPTION OF SOME RUNE WORDS WHICH THEN HAD RANDOM SIGN WHICH I WAS UNAWARE OF AND YOU NEED TO REPEAT WHOLE SEQUENCE AND REPEAT AND REPEAT. But yeah quests forced you to travel across the world map and if the first part of this small map till Magefactory was pretty nice, there was plenty of NPCs, quests, points of interests, then 2nd part I felt like it was desolated, like developers run out of time and did not implement everything what they wanted. AND THE FCKING COLLISION MESHES... BEHOLD OF MIGHTY HERO AND HIS/HER HORSE WHO CAME HERE TO SAVE US FROM THE BADDIES. YOU KNOW THE BIGGEST ENEMY OF THIS GAME IS ANY GROUND ELEVATION STARTING FROM RANDOM RUBBLE, STONE OR SIMPLE HIGHT DIFFERENCE IN PAVEMENT. Moreover to encourage you to sightsee the world there were different hidden treasures. If your hero in Baldur Gates was telling you "Cursed to lay hands on everything" when you checked 127th barrel in this game the same hero would simply off himself. But most important thing here were fights and they were nice, limitation to 5 units, different tiers of units and the skill which was responsible for amount of units in the stack was pretty nice and gave feeling of progression UNTIL YOU ARE FIGHTING ENEMIES AS PART OF THIS QUEST WHERE YOU NEED TO GET READ OF THE PLAGUE OR SICKNESS FROM THIS HOODED GUY. AFTER 5TH FIGHT I WAS LIKE UGHHH AGAIN?! Especially that you were forced to fight with already scripted army, you could not change it. Overall If you see this game on sale for 5 dollars go for it, you will spend ok-ish 20-40 hours if you do not have anything else to play. Otherwise it is not worth it.

The game, while passable for a typical rpg, should not bear the King's Bounty name. It lacks the charm of the original and the remake (published by 1c) and takes itself far too seriously without the necessary story elements or polish to back it up. The running around is just tedious and the combat is seriously unfun and infrequent.

This is not a successor to the King's Bounty, it's another game that tries to be a Witcher with turn-based battles. If you love the previous game, you will not find it here. As a strategy game its quite boring, all of the battles are practically same. Hero upgrade tree is for weak of the mind and doesn't have meaningful choices. As an RPG game, all of your choices come to whether fight that guy or another guy. No dialogue options, lol. How can an RPG game have no dialogues...Developers ate mushrooms and made totally different game and called KB2. Avoid this atrocity at all cost, even if its on sale - dont buy it. Just play KB legend or KB princess. Peace.

[h1]So much undeserved hate for this game.[/h1] Many reviews addressing old issues or riding a nostalgia train. Game is actually a really good successor to the previous games. Gaining something and losing something in certain aspects, but still a good attempt to reinvent the series. [b]Once you remove your nostalgia glasses and give it a fair chance, you will not be disappointed.[/b]

I so so so wanted to like this game after investing hundreds of hours into the previous Kings Bounty games. However, the decision to go third person was horrible and ruined the experience quickly. I want to be able to play my strategy games with my mouse, and maybe a quick key or two, but not to constantly travel around and get sick looking for little chests and other items. The combat also seems lacking compared to the other games, and the view here was also bad. Plus, you can reload your troops after any fight as long as you have resources and the at least the stack was still alive. At first I thought this was a good addition, but then you never need to change your troops, which is so fun in the first games.

If you increase the character movement speed manually, the game becomes much more enjoyable. In comparison to previous releases, a lot of things were improved and redesigned here. Feels fresh and fun to play! Solid 8/10.

有点英雄无敌、有点猎魔人、甚至有点奇迹时代，就是没有国王的恩赐。 老实说本作的卖相确实不错，我也是为了尽快玩到才在一年内接连打完又臭又长的北勇和黑暗面。第三人称RPG虽然有些烂大街但对于缝缝补补的前四作来说可谓翻天覆地，结果是步子太大扯到蛋。诚然有些东西诸如真实比例、遇敌点直接拉出来当战场可以拿出来吹，但和游戏体验关系不大甚至是负反馈，前者不放大根本看不清也做丢了前作不同攻击动画这种小细节，后者不仅导致战场狭小一回合探底而且平常跑图也麻烦，也不知道他们是怎么做到双输的。 第三人称RPG环节的最大问题是跑图，都21年了还要亲自走到传送点才能传送是不是有什么大病啊，没看过猪跑么？哪怕要跑去开船的前作也在黑暗面加了对话传送功能照着自己抄会死么？而且传送点的分布不仅稀稀拉拉城里还没有导致每次想要买点什么都要往返跑，也许制作组觉得这样很COOOOL罢。 为了应付傻大的地图制作的给出的答案是骑乘，结果因为强制回拉镜头体验异常的晕乎，更别提互动还要给个下马动作。结果大多数时间还是用双脚丈量土地，走路能不能改成加速跑啊我请问了。然后这睿智马匹还要被制作组莫名其妙的真实爱好所影响，进城不能跑只能快走。真的没话讲，感谢制作组没有加入饥饿口渴疲劳要素好吧。 步行部分像是在玩猎魔人2，但问题是猎魔人2地图多大你多大。人家知道有些东西就该做成背景，有些东西当成主线去一次就行。你倒好光那个魔法工厂主线一次战斗一次支线害一次这会儿想起前作啦？但前作再绕也是点点鼠标就过去了，你呢？ 战斗的问题在于根本没有自由度，前几作为什么会有人反复去玩去写战报？就是因为能绕能跑能偷图，装备随机因地制宜，有蛇戒玩蛇，有花环玩植物，要啥没啥还有大法圣裁圣骑万金油。花样也多，自己有装备栏随从也有装备栏，不仅有魔法书还有狂怒值。最关键的是升级采用的是能买能换能捡的符石，这就让前作有一种很浓郁的捡垃圾快感，东摸摸西凑凑又点个技能爽到。 反观本作等级是固定的、技能是死板的（点满下级技能才能点上级技能又是哪个鬼才想出来的？）、物品是无趣的（连使用都没有，摊手）、兵种是卡流程的（前几作不选五级兵可能是打法问题，本作不选五级兵是因为五级兵临结尾才放），我是不知道制作组脑子里在想什么的。 最后是兵种，领导力双卡（总领导力和自身数量上限）导致初级兵后期没有任何使用价值，单位换皮也多，秩序有弓、混乱有弓权力害有弓哪来这么多箭要射啊。唯一有点创新的可能是策略的构装物和元素……等会儿制作组不会是英雄无敌出来的还心心念念元素城吧，不会吧。有这功夫还不如做几个神权单位，有法师没牧师圣骑你管这叫国王的恩赐？ 唯一的亮点是单位升级加装饰，但要是单说升级北勇可是能升十级（当然这并不能算是优点），这倒不是谁优谁劣，而是本作原本就有个现成的巨人肩膀可以站，偏要舍本逐末。 至于战斗本身，从行动点变成移动/攻击行动条，还不知道从哪学了个借机攻击，进一步压缩了自由度，也许只有制作组会认为这是招一举多得（掩盖战场大小）的妙棋吧。 剧情反倒是最说得过去的一环，毕竟前几作的剧情说好听点叫老牌经典，一竿子捅到上世纪七八十年代去了。本作姑且整了点各有各说法的悬疑戏，查明真相也是个保下限的手法，整体不过不失。缺点是选择和阵营挂钩，别家RPG这么搞没问题，放在国王的恩赐上就很有问题，扭曲阵营全程不能当好人还是申必了点。其次是时有时无的售后环节，大多数任务都是简单粗暴的直接删NPC，好一点的把NPC挪过去但是没后续，这就是单纯的经验和成本问题了。 结局经典留坑，考虑到剧情频繁涉及各种境外势力看的出来是想后续慢慢加，补齐矮人（远征经商雇佣兵）和精灵（本作只有先知这一个精灵）之类的种族，但估计是没戏了。 额外的：为什么不能招虚空单位啊，那经典的招谁揍谁这一块儿谁给我补啊。 现实风又不代表一定要土的掉渣，况且本作也不现实啊，又是纯白宫殿又是法师塔的，看到王座下面连装具都凑不齐的骑士真的没话说。 马的装备呢？装备栏全程空的是吧。

The combat maps are painfully small. And you only have 5 armies to fight. At the same time the combats are slow af. Quests are all errands that you do in MMORPGs. You have a semi-open world but you walk like a snail and your horse is no better. You can't control your horse well cuz you can only turn when walking forward and the paths are narrow af.

72/100 Not sure if it's because of lack of time or money but this game just feels unfinished/rushed. The game became progressively worse and worse the further I got. Played as mage and the overall gameplay experience is pretty awful. - Powerscaling is way off. Everytime you think you have become powerful and reached a certain power threshold the game immediately confronts you with even stronger enemy units that are even more powerful than whatever you have in your stack. This struggle continued through the entire game with some battles being super easy and others near impossible. - Accessing Gear & Units takes far too long. There are like 8 gear sets (4-6 parts each) which you are supposed to collect while playing but I only ever found 3 full sets. (via Trial Challenges). In general gear is treated like an absolute luxury and in 50+ hours I almost exclusively only got grey/green gear. All the good gear and tier 5 units start flooding in all at once, as soon as you reach Floster which (at least for me) was about 50+ hours into the game. - Story is quite simple and the plot is actually solved within the first 20 hours of gameplay. The rest of the game you are just chasing the villains across the map unlocking several areas which are previously locked via invisible walls. - Horse mount is only like 30% faster than you and gets stuck pretty much everywhere on the map while riding and will block your way most of the time. + Voice acting is good and even the most niche NPC dialogues have been translated and voiced. + Music is very much in the background but there a handful of tracks that are good & memorable. + Entire game filled with A or B choices which lead to different rewards, dialoges and achievements.