Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

Идеально.

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This review is for others who loved BG3, DA: Origins, Fallout: NV, VtMB, The Outer Worlds, etc. KCD II is special. A distinctive, authentic, *epic* - and ultimately flawed - RPG. It is not just that the world building is great - which it is - but in an era of fantasy games, it feels really like taking a trip back in time. The dialogue is equally unique. The writers don't fall back on quippy Whedonisms and the characters are not the familiar archetypes cosplaying in medieval clothes - they're the real deal! Despite controversy about this game being PC, I didn't get that at all. All the romancing options felt believable in-situ. Really, all the character's roles did, as did Henry's choices in the game, and some of them were brutal... I loved the entries in the codex, learning about medieval society and then realising that I could actually visit some of these places one day! The game does require time investment to get the most out of it - the pace is part of what makes it immersive and you really feel the distances involved. The systems are quite complex. I would stop short of calling it a sandbox, but only just. The world responds predominantly to the main plot, though the crime system is quite reactive and far reaching. Skills (like lockpicking) are accompanied by mini-games. There is no points system - Henry levels up by spending time on the skills you enjoy and want to practice (mine being blacksmithing...). Well, almost... Combat is a huge part of this game and, so especially unfortunately, definitely the worst. The combat is designed to be systematic, with the player learning how to respond methodically (think Witcher 3 but deeper), instead of button mashing. The system is well *thought* out. The problem though is not that the combat is hard, but that it's *janky*. The game arbitrarily misses key-presses. Combos or other instructions fail to execute with no feedback. At one point all my arrows were automatically loosed for a while! Some players find the combat so easy they mod it to be harder, while some players (like me) find it near impossible, even with all the training & buffs. Is it just a skill issue? I thought so to start with, but then I find threads like the one complaining that one combo in particular - necessary to advance the plot, mind - is simply failing to work for multiple people. And the explanation becomes clear: the code is bad & poorly tested, meaning the combat works well on some player's systems, but not on others. Note in the thread before, players aren't actually *in* combat in this bit, so all they have to do is basically press three buttons in sequence, but for us unlucky few, the code just won't register it. This is compounded by poor balance, with Henry pitted against enemies with seemingly infinite Stamina. Compounded *further* by the fact that, as above, the player doesn't directly control Henry's stats directly - they accumulate as you play (or flail around, as in my case, with what seems like an random number generator for a keyboard...). This would *still* be OK if combat success was necessary for side-quests, or world-building only. But it's not - multiple times you need to win a fight to advance the plot, and sometimes in a fighting style that isn't the one you've been specialising in. There is no difficulty setting or story mode. (Nor are there any concessions for those with visual or motor impairments - no idea how they're meant to play, I guess they simply aren't.) I feel that KCD II has a split-personality, with some of the devs wanting an open world RPG, and others wanting a Soulslike, and the two never mesh properly. And to be honest, this ruined my playthrough. At 22 hours in I realised I was actively not enjoying it, and would have refunded it, but by that point had played too long. Instead I installed an Infinite Stamina mod which made the combat bearable, though still challenging. Then later on, when that was still too tedious, I just turned on invulnerability and one-shot-kill cheats by default, and finally started getting into the story again. By this point however the magic had worn off and never really came back. Warhorse clearly as a strong vision for this game, and clearly (given how easy they'd be to implement) the lack of concessions in this area is an artistic choice. And in the end, it is their game: no one can say what they *should* have done. However, neither can they complain when as a result the game gets 7 & 7's instead of the 9 & 10's it might otherwise deserve... My advice: if you like RPGs, and you don't play this game, you'll be missing out on something special. But if you find you aren't enjoying it after the first 5-10 minutes, then refund it or get comfortable with using cheats, because what you see at the start is what you get till the end! In the end, I wish I loved this game more, because I think it deserves it, but the first impression is made and the replay value is very low (this is Henry's story - you can't direct it too much). I just hope that others with setups like mine (whatever that is, we'll never know!) see this review and adjust their play earlier, and so get to enjoy the game to its full!

Immersive Gameplay

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