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This game isn’t a simulation, it’s only a simulation when it wants to be. That you can’t save games all the time because that’s not how the real world works. This is history you’re meant to be playing through, and Warhorse have decided that the best way to truly immerse the player in that history is to recreate the past, warts and all.Ĭombat is slow and unwieldy because, supposedly, that’s what it was like.

So many of Kingdom Come‘s features are seemingly there merely to boost the perceived “authenticity” of the experience. It’s presented by Warhorse as an immersive, authentic role-playing game set in a fully-realised medieval world, but at every turn the world is breaking down around you.Įven were successive patches and updates to fix many of the more superficial technical woes, I still don’t think I’d come around to recommending this as a great or even serviceable RPG, because the struggles at the heart of its design are simply too great to overlook. Running into so many of them so often undermines the entire point of Kingdom Come. Running into one or two of these things during a game would be a problem.

But other times it’s a more serious concern, like the two times I had to reload during key story missions because important characters simply didn’t show up or start delivering their performances. Sometimes the results were funny, like seeing a man floating in mid-air holding a ladder going nowhere. NPC scripting was also not up to scratch. Time is precious, and it astounds me that in 2018 a game was released that doesn’t respect the fact I may have other shit to do (or have things come up) that prevent me from sitting through long passages of a game, or that I don’t want to replay hours-long stretches of a mission because of a bug or accidental death.Īt times entire cutscenes played out like the game was released in 2001, all jagged faces and empty textures. Most glaring of the design missteps, though, is Kingdom Come‘s save system, which restricts saving your progress to certain key points in the story, or by obtaining, then drinking, potions. Trying to use a bow is a frustrating exercise in repetition and guesswork. The so-called “realistic” combat system, implemented in an attempt to fix the click-happy madness of games like Skyrim, introduces more problems with its speed and clumsiness as it solves by making swords feel truly dangerous. The pacing of the game’s main storyline is completely off, spending its first half lazily spinning its wheels before dragging you through an excruciatingly overdrawn conclusion.

The writing, occasionally honest and endearing, is in other parts agonisingly out of place and over-cooked. There are the separate and individual parts of an incredible video game here, but the game’s flimsy tech and inconsistent design just can’t hold them together long enough for Kingdom Come to win me over. It’s been a depressing month spent playing through it, then, to find that for all its ambition, Kingdom Come just doesn’t work very well. Since its announcement back in 2013, I’ve been quietly excited to get my hands on the finished game, both as a big fan of this kind of RPG as well as a lover of European history.

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There would be no wizards, no dragons, no giant rats – just you, a horse, some mud, and a cast of flawed human beings.ĭrawing on extensive historical research as well as the experiences of its homegrown Czech development team, Kingdom Come sought to tell a very real tale, narrowing its focus so that it would only include a small cast of important characters and an intimate patch of 15th-century Central European countryside. In a genre awash with fantasy epics, it sought to ground a role-playing adventure not in some distant and imaginary land, but in history. Kingdom Come: Deliverance was a grand idea.

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