I give up. Combat system is stupid, non intuitive and just badly designed. Fighting MORE THAN ONE enemy at once is impossible because of this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ autolock which does it's best to lock on the wrong enemy. When you're fighting only one enemy it is alright, but when you're fighting knights in armor etc, the fighting will just be : you waiting for your opponent to strike so you use the master counter (or whatever it is called) so you can ACTUALLY HIT once and do some damage, otherwise, they just parry everything, no matter where you aim.
The save system is stupid, having to craft an item to be able to save is one of the worst decision ever made, this is a solo game i want to enjoy, so let me save when i want, thanks.
It tells you that it saves automatically when you're doing quests....... yeah right, i lost like 4 or 5 hours because i got killed and thought that my game got saved at some point, BUT NO, let's replay the same ♥♥♥♥
again for 4+ hours to get back where is was because of one little mistake. NO THANKS i can't anymore.
Main story is okay, very predictable, other quests are a waste of time. This npc needs 100x food but he has no time to hunt so would you be kind enough to do so? yeah because you don't have anything to do you know, like a main quest for example? oh and you see plenty of bored NPCs around him that just do nothing except of sitting on the bench and waiting, you want that food? ask them, not me. I know these quests are not mandatory but it is the same ♥♥♥♥ for everyone of them except maybe a handful.. Looks like you're the only person in this world able to help them, like hunting seems to be too hard for everybody suddenly.
Let's talk about fast travel, time skip, sleeping time, etc, I hope you like staring at your screen for entire minutes just looking at the map, watching your little figurine slowly advancing from point A to point B on the map, THIS IS CALLED FAST TRAVEL FFS WHY DOES IT TAKE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MINUTES TO TRAVEL ? same when you go to sleep or skip time, you just stare at your screen, waiting like 2 minutes and... that's it.. big big gameplay over here.
let's not talk about the bugs, there was one NPC i had to talk to for the main quest, but he kept running away because earlier i stole something in a chest, I knew about this system so i thought okay i will just wait and do other stuff and get my reputation up so he will forgive me as it is explained in the memo. NO. 10 HOURS OF GAMEPLAY LATER still no changes, so i've looked online and had to hit an npc, get thrown to jail, do my time, THEN then npc will forgive about the stealing. WHAT A JOKE. thanks for wasting my time. There was several NPCs that got stuck at the door frame, had to quit and launch game again so they reset and i am able to talk to them.
more about the gameplay now, you have to clean yourself, wash your clothes, repair your armor, etc, so NPC will respect you more during the dialogues, good idea if it was well executed, this is obviously not the case here, just going through a village you make you dirty, do one fight, you have to repair, etc, this is just annoying.
the open world is looking great, that's it if i have to give some positive about this game, and i really tried to find more positive things to say but nothing comes to my mind right now.
This game is 8 years old, i really expected it to be more polished in 2026. i won't even try to play the sequel, im done with kcd.
