Kingdom Come: Deliverance

This game is absolutely amazing.. Im 75 hours in, and have only ran into a taxture problem, or getting stuck in the environment twice. Not one single bug, or quest issue from me! I dont understand the complaints about the save system.. Youre given plenty of save potions, and can make them easily, as well as saving anytime you sleep, or complete quests. The combat can be finnicky, and the lock on can be annoying when fighting multiple players, but it is one of the more satisfying I have experienced! I do find some parts frustrating. Liek enemies that seem to have infinite stamina, or block/parry perfectly and infinitely, as well as combos. Its definitely hit or miss at times, but awesome when working! The story so far has been fun, a parts are really challenging.. You can avoid or take on as much as you want, without feeling like youre missing out on some arbitrary experience points, as you gain experienec from physically using your skills! I cannot give this game, the studio, and the developers enough praise! Even more astonishing when you consider the meager backing, and start this game had.. The dlc, and the prices that seem slightly steep for such short content.. (luckily, I bought them all about 50hrs into my play through of the game) I started a new play through, so they play beautifully into the game, as opposed to me going straight for them after many hours of play, and knocking them out in an hour or two, which I htink, is the way to play them) I always start a new play through when I get new dlcs, in any game.. Thankfully, and also unfortunately, I bought everything while on discount, after waiting for so long to buy (I needed a new GPU before buying certain games, as my old 660ti wasnt cutting it anymore) Just today, its been announced that THQ aquired War Horse, and 2 MILLION copies sold, so theyll have bigger backing if/when they begin a new project..

There are a few good things about this game. For example dialog options and bartering with merchants, food spoilage, seperate inventories for you and your horse to manage, riding is mostly smooth, equipment has noise stats, the story is quite nice. However the list of things that are only there to annoy you because "realism" or whatever is way too long. The combat system is kinda cool for duels though also really clunky there but it is absolutely unfit for combat against multiple oponents which is the most common scenario. Don't even get me started on archery.... Weapon and armor choices are extremely limited and the sword that should be the best (queen of sheba) lacks far behind st. george's sword. Armor looks all the same with minor changes and the ones that do look different ain't worth the stat nerf. There is horse armor but only for the head while the body slot is still there, minor but annoys the hell out of me and cost me quite some time to find out that there definetely is none. Bush collision should not be a thing!! (thanks mods it ain't one for me anymore). You get dirty and your equipment breaks very frequently! Limited saving with an Item that makes you drunk and when you die because you jumped while standing on a steep hill and the game decides to throw you 50m down the hill side?? I can see the intention of wanting to not let you save all the time and try whatever you want till it works but savior schnapps is not the way to go!!! And the list goes on.. There were just too many decisions made to make you feel like your life is terrible and you're the lowest peasent and not some overpowered badass hero which wouldn't be all to bad would those decisions not increase the level of inconvenience so much. Also it's not like they don't allow convenient mechanics to make your experience better like beeing able to call your horse all the time. All in all it seems more like a big Life is Feudal Mod than a full game.

Masterpiece (after patches), enough said.

Total medieval immersion, no DEI woke shit.

A good idea poorly made due to bad design. To much of the gameplay suffers from bad design choices such as the save system and badly laid out missions, not to mention the bugs. This game took so much of my time being frustrated at its terrible design that I would really like a refund even at the discount I paid for it.