Kingdom Come: Liberation 2 – Brushes with Death Review

Kingdom Come: Liberation 2 – Brushes with Death Review

Adding DLC ​​to a narratively controlled game is a difficult suggestion. On the one hand, the story players who have already experienced the players cannot rewrite. The new content cannot change the existing arch of action in a sensible way, since many players could skip it. Brush with death, the first of three DLCs for this year's Kingdom: Deliverance 2, does a good job as any other when it comes to threading the needle. Players who have seen the end of credits roll will appreciate the invitation to get back into their buddy Henry. New players will only experience brushes with death as another of the many elaborate side quests of the game.

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Pinula with death is obviously not a shadow of the earth stree. It does not open up large new areas or surprising new mechanics. With the margin note, the free patch/update leads some changes in equilibrium and suggests some new skills such as archery on horseback. Instead, brush gives the player about ten to twelve hours of narrative, quests and characters for 6 US dollars, which is a pretty damn good business.

Let me paint a picture

Brush with death begins in a familiar forest near Trosky Castle, with Henry bumping to an artist named Voyta, who is tied to a tree and murmurs on a skull that mumbled all Hamlet-like. A few rackets have robbed him of his brushes and cubes and Henry is wrong. This is the beginning of a protracted quest that implements Henry Fedex-Ing on the map and uses a lot of dialogue, occasional struggle and deepening of his newly found friendship with the puzzling artist.

The final payment – apart from the pleasure of the narrative – is an NPC that can paint Henry's shields with all kinds of heraldik. It is a nice cut for endgame players who are interested in Henry's fashion and armor. The story does not reveal any major surprises about the world or the main narrative, adds the game of the game of the game to the game absolutely even more depth and character.

Who is it for?

Brush with death is a little strange, although it can be called up early, provided that players have some existing skills and experience, decent weapons and armor and have already opened later parts of the card. This means that players have to organically fold organically in their developing character on a first or new play with death and have to return to pieces as they do with other side quests. In fact, this is probably the ideal scenario in which the DLC simply disappears seamlessly into the whole.

Players who have already done everything have a new reason to return, and it could take much less time to scream through the story. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 made a big splash when it was released. It rightly received a lot of praise, but players have short memories. If you return in Henry's world, you will definitely remind you of how well – even though occasionally opaque – can be the base game.

The free update for everyone is great. It does not make comprehensive changes, but it optimizes small things like the appropriate availability of higher goods in the big city. There are reports that the update has also introduced some graphic problems for some systems, and I have experienced a little unpredictable craziness on horseback and one or two accidents. On the other hand, this was the case with the base game pre-patch.

Jumper change

I cannot say that brush is essential with death, but it gives an already rich world an entertaining new side story and a character. At his modest price, new players have even more KCD2 to discover. Returning players get an apology to visit Henry and his world again, to play with an old friend for a few hours. Brush with death definitely makes an already excellent game a little more interesting.

*** PC code from the publisher for review *** provided ***