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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review

This gorgeous medieval RPG continues to be just as prickly, divisive and abrasive as its predecessor.

This boarish buffoon almost pips Goldeneye's Natalya as the companion I want most to see roast in the fires of eternal damnation, and he is easily the game at its most detestable - a lewd shrimp of a public-school posh boy whose childish, throw-his-toys-out-the-pram approach to any kind of obstacle made me wish I could stick him with the pointy end as soon as possible (or let him hang when given the chance), just like I could with its rest of its murderable cast. I often felt myself reaching for my phone to help drive away the boredom in these moments, especially during the long stretches of horse-back riding where control is wrested away from you completely, leaving you to passively follow along for minutes at a time while fending off hailstones of exposition. Admittedly, there are still moments of levity to be found among the drudge work, such as the blind priest who tasked me with building pyramids of bones in a messy crypt, or thieving a maypole from a rival village to deepen a generations-long spat between them.

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