You roam in third-person, perhaps mounting your horse to speed up travel. In that respect, King’s Bounty II resembles a modern-day CRPG (computer role-playing game) rather than the army-building tactical strategy RPG it actually is. Rather than a bird’s-eye perspective, this particular game has us wandering around in full third-person view as whatever hero we choose. The most immediately noticeable change is to the perspective. Some are big, some are small, and some are particularly striking. The natural evolution of all those ideas that its original creators laid down.”Īnd there are changes and evolutions aplenty in King’s Bounty II. After all, The Legend is an excellent game, but a ‘light reboot’ of the whole series and not a direct sequel,” Baryshnikov told me. “At some point, we decided that we needed to get back to series roots. I asked 1C Entertainment’s CEO Nikolay Baryshnikov why this is something they consider the sequel to the original King’s Bounty, and not a sequel to the The Legend successor series, or its own thing. And now, after those six-ish games (depending on how you count them) we’ve finally got… King’s Bounty II? Yes. I also spent way too much time playing its 2008 spiritual successor, King’s Bounty: The Legend (hell, I reviewed it), and that game’s own sequels. It’s 31 years old, everyone, and I spent way too much time playing it. The original King’s Bounty - one of the important precursors to army-raising tactical-strategy-’em-up Heroes of Might & Magic - came out in 1990. The character will get various stat bonuses and other advantages depending on the wife they choose and the children they have with her, and a wife can also equip her own items that will benefit the hero as if he was having them equipped himself.You might think I’m in denial about my age, but dammit, I’m not old, even if this King’s Bounty II preview makes me feel that way. ![]() The game also features the ability to get married and start a family. During your quests, you will also bring kings to the throne or overthrow them, save princesses from dragons, search for the treasure of pirates, and eliminate tyrants looking to dominate the world. For example, to free peasants from the terror of man-eating plants, you may either kill their queen or bring her a cow to fertilize the ground and make her happy so she would stop terrorizing the poor villagers. ![]() There are many NPCs, good or evil, you can talk to in the game, who may give you quests that can be solved in different ways. To gain control over them, the player needs to win a battle against the evil Spirit that inhabits them. Some of the equippable items found in the game are "living" items that act and change their behaviour based on the player's good or evil actions. Various traps and bonuses that may change the course of a battle can also be found on some fields. ![]() Some battlefields are unique for castle sieges, or challenging to check if you're of the right level. Some of the more powerful enemies may either be controlled by unique villains of different levels or be one of 3 boss characters: Giant Turtle, Kraken, or Spider Widow. The game switches into a turn-based tactical mode for battles, where you control your troops on the battlefield, cast spells and summon powerful Spirits of Rage. You can also fulfill missions for the kings to earn promotions.Įnemies walk on the land in real time as well, so you may avoid or attack them. Skills, available in the form of skill trees with weighted nodes, may be developed with a certain number of magical crystal shards of three kinds acquired during travels. are scattered on his way, and places should be visited to acquire something useful or not. Different treasures, items, equipment, etc. ![]() Your character, riding a horse, travels in real-time in each location, representing the lands and waters, the undergrounds and the skies. You may as well increase your army buying new troops at the castle and travel with them across a continent made up of linked locations. The King and his Infanta will be the first NPCs you talk to, after the trainer and fake "necromancer" themselves, in order to gain information on the country and the current situation, and to get a quest. DescriptionThis single-player epic story about a good male knight hero (warrior, paladin, or mage) revives the original classic King’s Bounty game, which combines role-playing adventure and tactical battles similar to the Heroes of Might and Magic franchise.įinishing the training at the Royal Battlegrounds to gain your first level of experience, you will be assigned to the vacant post of Royal Bounty Hunter and equipped with a certain number of troops and magical items taken during the training.
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