Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 cut content is a pile of gold that contains what could have been my favorite combat mechanic ever

Two nobles getting married in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2
(Image credit: Warhorse Studios)

Kingdom Come developer Warhorse Studios has, in the past, prided itself on historical accuracy 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:to a fault, though this year's medieval sequel Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 presents itself more like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:sparkly historical fiction. It's a bloodstained place where knights have Hulk strength and peasants' teeth aren't rottiꦕng out of their skulls, but I wish Warhorse hadn't cut a key combat mechani🐭c that would have made Kingdom Come 2 even more of a dark fantasy.

As per the action role-playing game once made players suffer their karma through dreams and nightmares; a lying, sℱtealing, mur🐓derous player with a guilty conscience might be forced to combat spirits and demons while they slept. If they succeeded in defeating the monsters, they'd gain XP during their waking hours. If not, their sleep quality would plummet.

A s🌠aintly player, however, would hav🐟e a completely different experience once they closed their eyes – they could dream a path to glimmering hidden treasure, for example.

While similar RPGs like Red Dead Redemption and Fable have em🌄ployed morality systems for decades, they'd most typically manifest in your character's dialogue options, available story paths, or appearance. Like, particularly unscrupulous Fable 3 players might have sprouted sludgy, black fallen angel wings b🌼y the end of the game.

Interactive dream sequences are a more rare, thing, but it sounds like Warhorse was prepared to transform them with a unique, karmic twist. I will mourn this lost opportunity to study the knightly subconscious, ♛along with other interesting pieces of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 cut content. That includes a heavy blackmailing plot in the game's main quest and little babies, who Warhorse feared would get executed by those aforementioned players worthy of nightmares.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 star says recording every iteration of the open-world game's voiceover was "quite a lonely experience": "That is incredibly challenging."

Ash♐ley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering🧔 gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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