KCD has some of the best melee combat I've played. 1v1 fights with longswords are excellent. However, other weapon classes are much less exciting - you can see by how few combos they all have and their short range. The combat is designed for 1v1 fights, and when it comes to fighting against multiple enemies, it will be frustrating at best and broken at worst. When facing more than two enemies, switching targets is unreliable with the TAB button and very awkward to do with the mouse (as you also use the mouse for aiming strikes). Also, master strikes, a crucial feature in late-game combat, break - when performing them, the animation might cancel midway through, or it might play but not do any damage to the enemy, or you might teleport out of range of the enemy, or the enemy will teleport out of range. It's also frustrating that master strikes are locked behind an optional training session with the trainer at Rattay, with the game doing nothing to signpost you towards one of the most important combat features. Unfortuantely, by the late-game, when most enemies sport heavy plate armor and closed metal helmets, you might find that the longsword does little damage and isn't worth using in groups, so you' might have to switch to the mace and shield to keep up in the damage department. You could use archery to thin out approaching enemies, but archery in this game is so bad that it's barely worth using. Arrows go in random directions, there is a ridiculous aim sway, and taking out or putting away and firing the bow are so slow that you'll only have time for one or two shots before having to switch to melee. The writing is decent and justifies what would otherwise be pointless fetch quests. The game is gorgeous and great care was put into creating a world that is a life-size replica of a real area of Czech land.
