For the record I bought the game late june, so it was patched, and I did not experience any really troublesome or gamebreaking bugs so far. I would say this is a little gem, not quite polished but you get my drift. The game lacks some finition, probably because it was very ambitious for a small team. Although we have to give to warhorse they put quite something together. The historical immersion is no match to anything I have played before. The mixture of creating a character and making his history fit in History is a great idea, and is done really well here. I honnestly cannot wait to see what warhorse will pull in the future. If they make another historical rpg, without the youth issues of KCD, it could be a masterpiece. The historical accuracy mixed with our fictional story allows quite a strong immersion. We feel like we are Henry, and like we live in medieval Bohemia. That feeling is the essence of any self respecting RPG. So, just for this, kudos warhorse, you gave us a real role playing experience. Next of the numbness of most mainstream titles, that definitely deserves some praise. The game is pretty well designed on an experience standpoint. You can find RPG elements, with perks and character customisation. All of which illustrated by coherent art. I frankly appreciate that touch (there even is an alcohol related skill tree !). The game is also full of historical informations that will appeal to our inner knight dreaming 7 yo selves. The main story is coherent, convincing, and the related quests are interesting. Some sidequests are also quite the experience (I am thinking of the monastery investigation when writing this). The language, despite using modern pronunciation and vocabulary, participates well to the immersion, through the retranscription of these times' mindsets : exemple, the pious greetings. Combat system gives us a nice feel of actual swordfighting, with the directions, parade /dodge timings, importance of space, and also (quite historical for that one), stamina management. All of which without being too much of a challenge, so we can be forgiven for our newb mistakes, and grow in the environment. So far, we basically have great immersion, well designed rpg-ness, a tasteful combat system, some interesting quests, that is pretty much 80% of the job done for a good RPG. That being said, the title is severly lacking on some points, most importantly, optimisation. On a quite decent configuration, I get as low as 20fps (even less while galloping on my horse) in town (i5 skylake + gtx1070 +16gb RAM). Then, it is a bit buggy. I experienced a few bugs that had me restart the game (graphical only for me => black screen, horse is a black square, etc...). I did not experience gamebreaking bugs so far though. But, gamers be warned, if you expected your purchases to be polished and perfectly finished, this is not the title for you. Now if you crave an intriguing, gut grabbing RPG experience, you will find in your heart to forgive warhorse for the technical issues that are so far, the only shadowy spots on an otherwise very well thought RPG.
