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King’s Bounty II Free Download GAMESPACK.NET King’s Bounty 2 is a tired sigh of a Euro-style tactical RPG. Not the kind you make when you’re frustrated or relieved, though; it’s more like when you sit down after walking up a long flight of stairs and feel sort of distantly content. For the most part, it’s fine. The tactical combat is actually pretty enjoyable, the music is great, and the world looks nice. But it feels janky and unpolished in a lot of technical aspects, and the mediocre storytelling rarely got me motivated to see how the next step of the adventure might unfold. In a lot of ways, this long-overdue sequel is comparable to RPGs like ELEX or The Technomancer: a mid-budget contender that really wants to be something like a blockbuster BioWare game but doesn’t really have the resources or the expertise to get there. King’s Bounty 2 is a bit less ambitious than either of those other two, and probably the better for it – it doesn’t try to do anything wild and sticks to the fundamentals. But from the general glitchiness of the camera to the phoned-in story cutscenes. I still got the sense that the developers at 1C bit off more than they could chew.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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The voice acting, for one thing, is very inconsistent. The sorceress Katherine, one of the three playable characters and the one I spent the most time with over 40 hours of adventuring, has a pleasing timbre with a haughty, aristocratic delivery. But some of the random NPCs scattered throughout the world sound more like they’d just grabbed someone who hadn’t been in front of a mic before and handed them a script, if the distractingly bad performances are anything to go by. And those moments detract from the worldbuilding. Characters are introduced very abruptly, just like everything else in the story, and you’re sent ping-ponging from one clue to the next with little room for anybody to develop relationships with others, much less as individuals. There were a couple of surprises that felt worth the wait, but in general the motives of the various leaders and factions were always presented with so little nuance that nothing that happened left much of an emotional impact. It feels very by-the-numbers, like all of the heart went into building out the setting and very little into the cast and story. That’s a bit of a shame, because the fantasy world 1C has put together is pretty slick for a project this size.

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The graphics are a bit dated-looking, especially with the lighting, creature animations, and some of the faces. Compared to even a six-year-old game like The Witcher 3, it comes up short. However, they’ve gone with an art direction that’s just stylized enough it didn’t bother me all that often. Zooming in on individual units reveals a lot of depth and detail, especially on some of the bigger monsters, and I particularly liked how increasing a squad’s veterancy would spiff up their equipment visually as well. While large portions of the map can feel a bit samey – a lot of it is just hilly green woodland – it’s also packed with little lore tidbits like discarded notes and history tomes that were entertaining to paw through. If only getting around weren’t such a huge pain. Your default run speed is just slow enough to be thoroughly irritating from the first moment to the last, and for some reason there’s a walk button but no sprint. Why anyone would want to move through this sprawling country even slower than you move by default sure beats me. You do get a horse fairly early on, but it has clunky controls, it’s restricted to walking speed in larger towns, and it has a lengthy animation to get on and off that freezes you in place. That never ceased to be frustrating. What saves King’s Bounty 2’s bacon is the turn-based tactical battles. Granted, there are some unpleasant difficulty spikes, especially if you’re playing a magic build in the early game.Windbound

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But they’re actually pretty good fights once you get into the swing of things. You take an army of up to five units into each one, with dozens of choices from human knights, to gruesome undead, to deadly mythical beasts that result in practically endless interesting compositions. They’re divided into four factions of Order, Anarchy, Power, and Finesse, and normally you’ll want to stick to one to get the best synergies – but there are ways to build your character to be more faction-agnostic, at the cost of not being able to focus on beefing up one faction to their max potential. King’s Bounty is an odd series, always more strategy than RPG, always more a game about tactics, cash upkeep, and combat maneuvering than one about epic roleplaying and exploration. In theory, King’s Bounty 2 wants to change that—to make a story following a main character whose choices affect the world. King’s Bounty 2 does just that, and it sucks the fun right out of it. Though it has the occasional joy of hex-based tactical combat, it simply wastes far too much of your time wandering about a charmless world filled with boring people. In King’s Bounty 2 you pick one of three characters to take through the main story, each of which follows the same plot. Having been released from prison your character takes on a job for the king.

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who forgives you for whatever reason, and then goes wandering about trying to prevent a fantasy magical apocalypse because a wizard told you you’re the chosen savior. It’s absolutely bog-standard and nothing you haven’t seen before. You then go out and wander the world, doing lots of side quests and fighting battles. You don’t fight the battles, mind, you stand on the sidelines like a kind of Commander/Cheerleader/Magical Artillery Piece and direct your troops around. Those troops fight in tactical battles, with five units dancing around tight hex-based arenas. It’s serviceable combat, but the UI does it no favors and the details are predictable systems: Skeletons take less damage from arrows, fire attacks burn enemies over time, and spirit creatures are resistant to non-magical attacks. It shows little of the interesting mechanics you’d want from a modern tactics game, like forced movement or battlefield manipulation. So there’s systems to play with in the game, but nothing too delightful. It doesn’t matter that much in the end because for every five minutes of good tactics bit there’s ten of minutes staid RPG world-wandering. Your commander gains experience over time, getting stats that buff up your troops and magical powers to blast enemies.Tormented Souls

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The troops themselves gain experience, and come from a customizable roster divided into four factions: Order, Anarchy, Power, and Finesse. Those are also the four tenets which characters follow in the game, that powers are divided into, and that quest branches fall into. They’re the alignments of King’s Bounty, the equivalents of Mass Effect’s Paragon and Renegade, and they line up with the story’s possible endings. It’s a nice touch, but might leave you feeling cold if you’d like to be a polite, non-anarchic chaos necromancer, for example. Not that the roleplaying is really a highlight—dialogues don’t branch, but rather choices are made by picking one of two options during the course of a quest. Your dialogue is fixed, in fact, so sometimes your character will say things you don’t really like. That wouldn’t be a problem if the characters were more interesting: Katharine the mage, for example, is kind of a jerk, where Elise the Paladin is naive to the point of frustration, and Aivar the warrior just kind of doesn’t have a personality at all. That’s not even to mention the writing, which is awful, and the voice acting, which is worse. I switched the game to Russian after ten hours, which improved the experience considerably. I don’t speak Russian: it was just nice to stop the flood of hammy performances.

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In fact, the game as a whole doesn’t really have much personality. That’s the big fault. The realistic art style is detailed, but it ends up looking like top-end graphics from 2012 when a bit of stylization would have gone a long way—something those who loved the comical, fantasy and fairy tale style of the older King’s Bounty games are going to sorely miss. There’s fun in the game, and a bit of humor, but like the tactical battles it’s outweighed by the boring bits. At heart, King’s Bounty II is still the same game as its predecessor, just with a ton of upgrades — which is to be expected after 30 years. For those that haven’t experienced King’s Bounty before, it is a turn-based RPG game with a conventional medieval setting. The sequel expands on the original by introducing more immersive RPG elements, a bigger and fuller world, and a whole host of new ideas. King’s Bounty II is set in the world of Nostria, a kingdom now overshadowed by conspiracies, sabotage, and necromancy. This country is not what it used to be and bandits roam the streets, taking what they want, when they want. The King has lost his authority with no other nation stepping up and helping.

That’s where our character comes into play. The player takes the role of one of three ‘accidental’ heroes: Katherine, the Mage; Eivor, the Knight; and Elisa, the Paladin. All have their own traits and stats. Unaware of why they have the power they do, they’re the kingdom’s only hope. Your job is now to recruit, develop, and command your very own army. Pretty ambitious, to say the least. Once you’ve selected your character, you will begin your story, starting with a tutorial which briefly explains how things work. Set out like many RPGs, King’s Bounty II is third-person and you will see a lot of similarities with other popular games of the same genre. You will quickly learn your character has just been released from jail, to help on this very important mission. One thing that became clear when playing King’s Bounty II was that the world you’re in is quite full. I’ve played a lot of open-world RPG games that are absolutely beautiful to look at, but the world itself is completely empty. That isn’t the case with King’s Bounty II — there is plenty to see and explore and that made my time with it a lot more enjoyable.

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Battles in King’s Bounty II were certainly interesting and you will realise at this point that the character you choose is mainly a gimmick because you don’t really control them in combat. Your character is able to perform attacks from the sidelines, but that’s all. The main focus is the army you have had to build up and train — you are the commander, after all. Building your army was one of my favourite things about the game purely because it’s so in-depth. It’s not just a case of gaining soldiers and throwing them into battle. You need to consider where to place them and with whom. You can have soldiers, dogs of war, skeleton warriors, thieves — among others — and they won’t all get along with one another. You need to establish which team works best with who and place them accordingly before the army’s morale lowers, decreasing your chance of victory. Each unit (made up of five troops) is able to move and attack each turn. If some of your troops fall then they will be out of the battle until the end, but if you lose an entire unit you will lose them for good. It’s worth noting that battle segments in King’s Bounty II are actually the thing you will probably be experiencing the least. The majority of your time will be spent exploring, interacting with characters, and completing missions. This didn’t really bother me too much though. EVERHOOD

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