King's Bounty II

much better then the first edition of the game , but i don't know what it is about the cameras in this one makes me nauscious if i eat and play too close together . especially on the horse!

This is a very difficult game. I feel like the game is cheating even in normal mode. I felt this the most in the case of morale. There was an example where I had a 30% chance that my creature would respawn, and it never happened once in a round, while my opponent happily respawned with a much lower chance, at least twice, sometimes three times out of his 4 creatures. Of course, there is a chance of this, but I still consider it quite unlikely. The enemies are sometimes 3 levels higher than the hero, and if they are the same level; then they have such amazingly higher stats that my blood pressure jumps. You have to try each fight several times, either because you fail, or you can win at such incredible losses that your wallet is empty by the time you replace the creatures. Not to mention if the lost creature is just about to evolve. And if it dies, the collected combat experience also floats. Too bad. Anyway, the story wouldn't be bad, I'm interested in how it ends, but a little balance of power wouldn't have hurt. I'm a little sorry I spent money on it, but I'll be more careful next time.

Nowadays, you gotta approach a gameplay overhaul with a lot of skepticism. But they pulled it off. Good story, good looking characters, a solid bestiary, a solid talent tree system, and they basically upgraded the previous games' mechanics without ruining them. My only complaint would be that some combat arenas feel like you bought some cheap tickets to the baseball game. But I wouldn't change it, not worth the hassle. As someone who played like 3-4 King's Bounty Games, I am more than satisfied with this one.

This game's voice acting is probably one of the worst I have ever played. It would literally be better if there were no voice actors. It's like they didn't tell the voice actors what emotion they were supposed to have, so the voice actors went with "Calm conversersation" no matter what is happening. And it is the same emotional output for EVERY actor, on EVERY line. Doesn't matter if it's Character A saying "How have you been Grandma?" or Character B saying "The rats are eating my face" both lines are delivered with the same emotion and energy.

Battles somewhat intersting, still some choise like limited number of solders per type is disapoiting (you can have anymore an enormous quantity of lv1 troups even if you have enough lieadership. Rpg... don't need to read/hear the quest, the choise is dicteted only by what skill you want to level up, everything else does not matter.