Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Aside from some performance that I fixed with a GPU driver reinstall (even though the performance is still disappointing) I have no regrets with this game. Beatiful.

This game is very difficult to rate Some aspects are undoubtedly above excellence: the graphics are still great, the plot is interesting, the reconstruction of the Middle Age is majestic, and the NPC are generally very charismatic and well written (my favourite are Hans Capon and Father Godwin). The world is huge and you have a lot of missions and activities. Usually you can solve the quests in different ways, so playing this you feel a great sense of freedom, it reminds me of Morrowind and Gothic 2 somehow. Dialogues and voice acting are ok. On the other hand this game has many problems. First of all, the saving system is probably the worst i have ever seen in a RPG, very frustrating. The combat system is realistic and it works fine for me: problem is that it was clearly thought for 1v1 combat and every time you face more than one enemy (it means the 90 per cent of the times) you are basically screwed because the movement is clunky and unresponsive. Beside this fact for some mysterious reason if you are losing a battle you cannot turn back and flee, because you are locked to your enemy and again, you are screwed. Using a bow could be a solution...theoretically. Because you don't have a f***ing crosshair, so you miss the 9/10 of the shots, it's embarrassing. Other mechanics are just...weird: riding a horse is a chore, alchemy is a disaster, and there are other strange annoyances. For instance, you are the apprentice of a blacksmith but you can't forge anything (a modern game without crafting, are you kiddin' me?), you lived by a river since childhood but you can't swim, etc. In particular I hate the fact that, if you are overencumbered you can't fast travel even if you are riding a horse, does it make sense? No man, it doesn't, and it makes all the hunting quests nearly impossible. All in all, my advice is to play this game: if you have enough patience it can give you a lot of fun. But remember that it's not a game for everyone, so be cautious.

+landscape and historical accurate cities +realistic armour and weapons +underlying priniciple -everyting else, sadly -and most of all story and characters The melee combat is a complete mess. Having the same controls (moving your mouse) for choosing the direction of your attack and moving the camera simply does not work, you just end up turning away from you opponent all the time. As for the ranged combat, yes, not having a mark in the middle of the screen (where your arrow is pointing) is realisitic, but you don't get any feedback about the position of your hands in-game (obviously), so most of the time, targeting is just guessing and hoping for the best. The progression and stat system makes the whole combat system utterly useless, the game is a complete mess in every way, but especially balance wise. But the worst thing by far are the story and characters. I have never encountered such a uninteresting and boring cast of characters in any book or game i have played/read. The protagonist couldn't have less character depth if he was represented by a cardbord cut-out version of himself. The atrocious voiceacting just drives this mess deeper into the ground. There are only two games right now, which i started and deliberatly stopped playing, this and Final Fanatsy XIII, where the characters weren't just boring, they were also really annoying. A combination which is an achievement in itself. I wanted to like Kingdom Come, i really did. But the overall realisation of an awesome idea falls flat in almost every aspect and this might be even worse, than FFXIII, because i didn't have such high hopes for that game.

First game after The Witcher that I've been playing days and nights.

This game is a love letter to the genre, combat is fantastic, presentation is stellar, the story engrossing, all mixed into one of the most immersive titles I ever played. Love this game.