King's Bounty II Reviews

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I wanted to like this one, I really did. I loved the series so far but this one feels like it need more time cooking. Feels like an alpha version. Many parts of the world (up to where I explored) feels empty, lifeless. Always had a feeling "something" was missing when looking at the world/room/place I was in at the time. Dialogue is atrocious, to say the least. They needed more time, more polish, less forced edgelord and more medieval/magical world person. Not to mention the many times the two people talking felt completely disconnected from each other, like each one is on their own conversation. And there is something with the graphics and my brain that does go well, I felt really nauseous while playing. Only thing close to this was Fallout 76 on release. No amount of configuration changes would help. FOV, Blur, diff resolutions, diff screens, etc. I see potential, I think the change to 3D might pay off immersing us in the world, but if developed more, The state it is, it's a miss for me. I hope the devs don't give up on the series, hear the feedback from the community and improve on the next game.

IMO it's still OK for turn-based rpg, but not as great as previous KoB.

This is not a successor to the King's Bounty, it's another game that tries to be a Witcher with turn-based battles. If you love the previous game, you will not find it here. As a strategy game its quite boring, all of the battles are practically same. Hero upgrade tree is for weak of the mind and doesn't have meaningful choices. As an RPG game, all of your choices come to whether fight that guy or another guy. No dialogue options, lol. How can an RPG game have no dialogues...Developers ate mushrooms and made totally different game and called KB2. Avoid this atrocity at all cost, even if its on sale - dont buy it. Just play KB legend or KB princess. Peace.

Game starts good but the more you play the more and more unbalanced it gets. There are battles that you can win with both hands behind your back and then next battle is unwinnable. You cant do much to test different unit composition because gold is also very limited. It seems like you are rich but units are heavily overpriced and 15-20k goes just like that and if you don't look for gold in literally every single corner of the map you wont be able to buy much. It feels like they tested only start of this game and then said f** it just release it.

I really enjoyed this game, but it shouldn't be called Kings Bounty 2. Maybe Kings Bounty Role Playing Edition or a complete overhaul mod for The Witcher (although that doesn't do it justice). Gone is the top down 2D map with resource gathering, securing mines, and capturing towns. Gone is the decision of what to build and weekly recruitment. Instead its a 3rd person role playing game in the vein of Witcher, Skyrim, or Fallout with a Kings Bounty lore open world to explore, quests to complete, and battles that are the most faithful to the Kings Bounty/Heroes of Might of Magic genre with turn based hex battles (although now more 3Dish). This turned out to be the hybrid game that I didn't know I wanted, and I'm loving it. Now, its not perfect, and it has its flaws, but if it had been better explained of what it was to genre faithful, and advertised to role playing fans, I think it would have been more successful as a game. Very much worth getting on sale, and much more enjoyable after the post release negativity. Just take it as it is, you've been warned

Not nearly as fun as the the other versions. Third person aspect is terrible.