There is a moment when realism in a game could make things harder than it actually works in real life. Unfortunattly, this statement is exactly about this game. Great level design, beatiful medieval castles and towns, best forest I've ever seen in games - and unplayable archery (and hunting as well), controversial saving mechanich, given the large amount of bugs (especially related to the physics of world). This things could be easily fixed by third-party mods (editing configs in fact), however it's pretty annoying that this things exists in a native game. Fighting is also not the best. It's realistic from the point of late medieval duelling tractats, but when it comes to large "wall to wall" fights, it looks whery unnatural - instead of "keep formation and try as quick as possible to stick this bastards with something sharp, or stub them with something heavy", battlefield disperse in several duels with swords. Also gameplay is kinda going against the plot. Gameplay with all it's realism trying to make you feel as a non-auristocrat medieval person, but the main character some times doing so srupid things, like a disputing and fighting with son of local lord. This moments ruines most of "realism" vibes for me. Still, the game is worth trying. With some minor config changes you may avoid artificial restriction described before, and even with them gameplay may be pretty addictive. Just don't try to make everything and everywhere, be focused on a specific tasks in a specific time an you will be fine.
There is a moment when realism in a game could make things harder than it actually works in real life. Unfortunattly, this statement is exactly about this game. Great level design, beatiful medieval castles and towns, best forest I've ever seen in games - and unplayable archery (and hunting as well), controversial saving mechanich, given the large amount of bugs (especially related to the physics of world). This things could be easily fixed by third-party mods (editing configs in fact), however it's pretty annoying that this things exists in a native game. Fighting is also not the best. It's realistic from the point of late medieval duelling tractats, but when it comes to large "wall to wall" fights, it looks whery unnatural - instead of "keep formation and try as quick as possible to stick this bastards with something sharp, or stub them with something heavy", battlefield disperse in several duels with swords. Also gameplay is kinda going against the plot. Gameplay with all it's realism trying to make you feel as a non-auristocrat medieval person, but the main character some times doing so srupid things, like a disputing and fighting with son of local lord. This moments ruines most of "realism" vibes for me. Still, the game is worth trying. With some minor config changes you may avoid artificial restriction described before, and even with them gameplay may be pretty addictive. Just don't try to make everything and everywhere, be focused on a specific tasks in a specific time an you will be fine.