The next quest couldn’t have been more different. That warmed them to me and yielded the location of my target (as it happens, I felt so guilty that I later ended up hunting down the cutthroats and killing them anyway). I told them I knew nothing and bade them farewell, but I informed the next camp of charcoal burners that I’d killed the pair. On the way I came across two cutthroats who were trying to track down the same man as me. Again, they couldn't help, and pointed me further downstream. I started at the far east of the river and worked west, eventually wandering across a huddle of tents. Rather than marking the individual camps, the game marked a large area, and had me do the legwork. They pointed me to the north, explaining that the other camps are spread along a river running through a nearby forest. I tried one of these camps to the south of town. However, though the game has many means of encouraging me to stay with the core quest, the main reason I can’t stop playing through it is that its quests are so enjoyable – no two segments feel alike.Īt around eight hours in, I was sent to investigate a brutal killing in a nearby town, and found that I had to track down a guy known to be friendly with camps of charcoal burners dotted around the countryside. But from a role-playing perspective, it’s the perfect way to ensure your choices have weight, and it means you’re less likely to risk your life on something that won’t advance the story. I can see why some people find the system frustrating, and it makes little sense from a narrative standpoint. But that potion is very expensive, and gold is in short supply, so I rarely drink it. The game autosaves if you sleep in a bed you own, or at the start of certain missions, and you can manually save by drinking a certain potion. Kingdom Come's unique save system is another thing that helps focus that sense of danger. He’s still on my ‘to-murder’ list for later. The group I found there were better equipped than me, and the guy in the shiniest armor killed me in one combo. I found this out the hard way about ten hours in when I took on a side quest to kill the leader of a nearby bandit camp. I don’t fancy wandering off into the countryside because I know that within 15 minutes some marauder with a massive axe will have me resembling an unfortunate Game of Thrones extra. Unlike protagonists in other games, Henry doesn’t become an all-conquering warrior in a hurry, which means there's further incentive to stick to the main roads for a while.

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