Kingdom Come: Deliverance (Ep 07) - a podcast by Icel Media

In this episode of THE BURN, hosts Aviv Icel Manoach and Omer Timetwister Kaplan talk about the weird survival elements in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, new specs for Microsoft Series X, and Steam search updates.

Original recording date - February 26th, 2020.

Game of the Show: Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Published by Warhorse Studios, MSRP $30, Buy on Humble (Iceborne Master Edition, Partner Link)

So over the past few weeks, I made a project out of it and powered through all the Witcher III’s expansion packs and finished the whole thing. Took about 35 hours combined with plenty of side quests in between.

What does that have to do with KC:D? I was left with a craving for fantasy and this game was always on my to-play list so I fired it up. Let me tell you one thing about KC:D - it is nothing like a witcher and barely qualifies as fantasy. It’s basically a medieval life simulator with great story writing in between.

I’m not going to give away any of the story because this game has the best prologue\tutorial I’ve seen in recent times but you’re basically a blacksmith’s son living in a small village in what seems to be the 15th century where the Czech Republic is today, kind of like between Rome and the Austrian-Esque kingdoms.

The only common thing between KC:D and The Witcher is that setting wise, everybody’s suffering all the time and medieval life generally sucks: Combat in KC:D is not forgiving at all (also not satisfying), you have to manage your hunger and sleep, you can overeat and generally you’re poor and beating up and pushed around by everyone.

You even have to manage your dirt level so if you’re dirty or bleeding people (like nobility) would treat you differently. Your speech skills are very important in this game and so is every little detail. The game has no mercy for you to a point where you have to use a type of alcoholic beverage as your “save game potion” if you run out you have to buy more in an inn - but you’re also poor so no save games for you.

I was literally homeless at some point and spent the day gambling in an inn, playing a medieval game of dice (was fun) to earn my inn money so I can sleep.

Anyways, the story is interesting enough for me to get going (which I won’t spoil for you) but I feel abused by this game but compelled to continue.

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