I have not been able to play this until I recently got my new computer. And wow, this is totally a mashup from all the first three games and all the best parts are kept. The skillset RPG feeling is back, the plank is back, loads of new cool items and features are there and it's incredibly beautiful and awesome soundtrack. I am still on Act 3 in this game, but I can with confidence say that this is the best one. I still miss the inventory items from the first one though. It should have been in all the games in my opinion.
I'm quite a hardcore horror fan since childhood and I've seen like all horror movies. Nothing really scares me anymore. When it comes to horror games, I've only played a handful of them, and the most scary ones I've played are Layers of Fear, Kholat and Darkness Within. I would say Song of Horror is a combination of all of them in some way. I'm currently playing Chapter 3 and I just had to turn off the game for a while since my nerves couldn't handle it. The big difference with this game compared to the other three I mentioned is that you can actually die! And you only have limited lives. If all your characters die, then you're smoked and have to restart the chapter. That takes the game into another level of focus and horror feeling. I don't really dare to do anything in the game without being extremely cautious. Yes, there are a lot of jump scares, but also slow scares like the whole atmosphere. The minigames are not that creepy, but the thought of a minigame could appear anywhere and kill your character is horrible which will boost the atmosphere a lot. The bad parts with the game are probably that the voice acting is pretty bad. And as an adventure gamer, I want to hear the character talking while clicking on something, even if the person is alone and no one can listen. In this game it's just "hmm....ooh" etc. Like The Sims or something. If this game would be patched, please change the voice acting. That French sounding guy in chapter two was just sounding terrible. But as a whole, this is the scariest game I've played this far so I can totally recommend it.
Nah, I would not recommend this one. It was not really bad. It was quite enjoyable with the secret camp and so. But the love story with Capon just felt a bit poor. When the game was finished for real, you had that nice and sad feeling, and it had to end with this quest, which just was tedious. It totally killed all the magic at the end of the game and it was more "meh" when I decided to finish it for real. As a side quest, yes. But not as an end game extension. I would not recommend new players to play this one since it will kill the experience. Just ignore this expansion and take it the second time you play the game or something.
I just did my Second playthrough of KCD, and this time with all the DLCs. I didn't have any of them the first time. When I started this quest and found out you could actually rebuild Pribyslavitz from the ashes, like a strategy game. I got hysterically happy and it was awesome. I totally skipped all other quests and just focused on this one. However, when the city was built. No more villagers were complaining, no more decisions that would affect the income. Nothing more to build, even though Sir Divish told about an expansion. I was totally expecting to be able to build more buildings later on in the game. There were still wooden stumps and the church yarden still had uncut grass. I wanted to make everything beautiful and a litte bit more happenings and quests. But when it was done...it was basically over. Just a place to grab tens of thousands of groshen...that you don't need anymore at that stage. So conclusion, it was very awesome until all buildings were set up. Then I just felt emptiness and disappointment. I would like a DLC From the Ashes 2.0 where you extend the DLC with more stuff. More buildings, more choices so it becomes less linear and more decisions and quests and stuff to do. Make it your home. I want to feel it's my home for real as a Bailiff. Why not let Theresa move in with me there etc?
