Kingdom Come: Deliverance

I started playing this game recently and I got caught into the story immediately. Even on my older 2013 gaming laptop, this game runs fine on lower/medium graphics. I have always wanted to play a realistic medieval game where you die easily and can do a little bit of what you want. This is the closest game this far. Very beautiful environments and atmosphere with great gameplay and storyline makes this game absolutely one of the better games that I've played in modern days. The music could have been more "characteristic" though for extra feeling. I am so much going to finish this game and buy all the add-ons.

Nice game from a new studio, looks pretty, has various interesting mechanics, but unbalanced and sometimes buggy. After the long introduction and learning the second part of sword basics, you are free to explore the map or follow the main quest. And here comes the first problem....you are dead. A sword skill called "Masterstrike" is the counter skill for melee weapons, which is the most needed basic skill in this game, because everyone and everything has either unlimited stamina or can counter with a wooden stick all your attacks, even if you are using Thors' hammer. That this needed skill is not in the tutorials, which you need to complete as tasks in the main quest, is completely frustrating. The alternative to use bows, is not better. Even with the target of having more realism in this game, to have nothing to extrapolate the way your arrow will take is frustrating too. I helped me with a lot of guessing and the position where the left hand is, relatively to the enemy. After learning the Masterstrike and somehow to manage to hit with the bow, you finally make progress in the game. Until you reach some main quests. Tiny spoiler with this, but if you shall work after a day plan, have 0.0 seconds to reach the next room and get into jail every time for this..let's say I had strong feelings to ignore my "goodguy playthrough" and crush this quest the hard way. Thankfully only two such annoying quests exist in the main storyline. Last negative point: saving games....the check points are horrible. Sometimes I lost progress of an hour, because suddenly a group of 6 enemies appeared on the way and killed me. But not because of enemies, but because even after 6 completed tasks, there was no auto save. Yes, you can save with savior schnapps, but a the beginning, 120 coins for one is a bit much, together with the horrible checkpoints it is a terrible solution. But I played through the game, after knowing all these "bugs" I enjoyed it, let's see how the next part will be.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance is one of those kinds of games you watch, you don't think much of it, you buy it on sale one day, and then you play it and it's... Tolerable. You play it for a while and the setting is kinda nice, the story is kinda good, but you turn it off at some point and realize... 'Man, I'm not actually enjoying the game, why am I playing this?' and uninstall it. Casual Players avoid this. Watch a Full Story Playthrough if you must. First off, let's discuss Combat, because that's basically all you should care about. Is it fun? Hell no. Is it intuitive? Fuck no. Can you cheese it? No. It's a five prong system, each prong corresponding to a directional attack (For Honor Players, it's basically like if you had two extra guards... also playing as an Assassin, blocking is not automatic) with a middle prong for stabbing. You have to attack from a different direction each attack (meaning move your stick or mouse a different direction for every attack) or else the opponent will either block or counterattack. Unfortunately, they also tend to counterattack a decent amount, even when you are playing correctly. They also give you combos you will not memorize unless you spend several hours in practice. Archery? If you can figure out how your arrow flies, sure, but they give you no way to know. No reticle, no arrow flight path, and even if you hit the mark, anything bar a headshot will only damage them. Dialogue Checks? More like Speechcraft/Charisma Checks, because Warfare checks will fail half the time even if you have double the opposing enemy's roll, and will result in 3v1s and 4v1s. Crafting is about the only well-designed part of the game, from what I could tell. Alchemy is cool (though you have to follow very specific directions) and sharpening was neat... even though I didn't understand it. Characters are... Servicable. Radzig is cool, everyone else I've already forgotten. I don't hate them, I just don't care. Really nota game worth your time.

Do you long for a game like Witcher 3:Wild Hunt? Perhaps do you want less magic or monsters and more medieval feel in your game? Might you be looking for a more historically accurate RPG game? Well Kingdom Come: Deliverance has delivered. I wish I would have started playing this game when it came it. Why did I wait so long? I listened to the crowd versus make my own judgement and leap in with both feet. I am having a blast! I have not experienced any game breaking bugs either. Perhaps a prequel with the father in the future ;)

I like this game and it's not only because I am Czech, and I was lucky, after 10 hours I didn't meet any important bugs (I playing version 1.2.5.). Game is hard, but If you accept it and learn how to play it, than it's very good game. I've been waiting for similar game long long time. There are some stupid bugs, like that you can't change controls and teleporting in tutorial (if you go another way, it still starts cut scene and you are teleported), but it's not important. I hope they modify that lock picking, I don't like it and fist fights are very hard and archery is stupid because swinging hands, I shooting with bow in real life and it's nonsense, but game is very good in overall review. Maybe that swinging will be better after some time, I have zero experiences with that in game.