Kingdom Come: Deliverance Royal Edition

This game was recommended to me by friends as a best game of the year. But For me it is huge disappoitment. The AI is down right broken. I got stuck on stuff in the world all the time and due to the save systém it is even bigger problem. The story pushes your charaktere to do idiotic things in order to create difficult scenarios. If you step out of the predicted path you can crew youself. Just really bad.

Quick notes: 1. I hate the combat system in this game more than anything I have played in decades. It's slow and clunky and hard because its badly designed and non-responsive, not because it requires strategy. 2. The story is that of an utter idiot that seems to go out of his way to do stupid things with no player agency what so ever. My reaction to a game shouldn't be contantly shaking my head at how stupid the protaganist is. 3. It's apparently been out a year and I still run into frequent bugs like getting stuck in cielings and terrain. 4. The amount of fiddly micromanagent is irritating. Your character seems to attract dirt like some kind of soil magnet. This doesn't make the game realistic it makes it tedious.

Could have used Medieval swearing to add even more to the authenticity and immersion, but nope, the stupid grafting of grating modern profanity instead.

Buggy after all that time, for an example i just couldn't open my inventory anymore, lost an hour of gameplay for nothing. Searching around, found the same bug reportet over a year ago. Combine the bugginess with the shitty save-system of the game where you can't save and load anytime, and you got an insolent piece of crap that is wasting your lifetime as often as it is fun to play. I already regret that i bought it, even at a sale.

I'm writing this review in 2020, I didn't finished the game, I got like 20 hrs. or so, but enough to see that this game is just not worth anyone's time. For the sake of being "realistic" it strips away the fun factor, not seeing the point of this since it's a game and by definition, games are supposed to entertain and give the user a sense of escapism, this provides neither. I will admit that this review is a petty one, since I've never been interested in sharing my thoughts in any other installments, this one had me bumping my head with unfair situations and I will state this, the combat is fun, I enjoyed the combat, too buggy for it's own sake but it is enjoyable and can be "mastered" (excepting the parts in which you get ganged and you basically must fend attacks that you will most likely not see from an enemy that is scurrying around you and out of your line of sight, which is most times, there goes the only fun factor of this game) I don't care how "gud" you are, there will be frustration with this game at some point, and I'm not talking about Dark Souls frustration, because even when Dark Souls, a title that many people call "the most difficult games", can be infiurating, it's in no way as unpolished, buggy and unfair as this game is, it's a different kind of frustration, and when you're done with an encounter against a mob of npcs, you will not feel victorius, you'll have to check your inventory to see which equipment is bloody, dirty, damaged and repair it, because if you don't, you will most likely die in the next battle, not to mention you'll loose reputation for being a dirty peasant. I'll say this last and most likely you'll know what it's about, the saving schnapps is just a feature that makes me exclaim "what were they thinking?!". However, I do must say the world, the setting and overall the game was done with passion, a lot of research and overall breathtaking, if medieval settings are your thing, go for it, give it a try.