>>534233302 (OP)Just finished this game. Anyone else feel like the writing and quest design was worse than the first one? In broad strokes, the plot itself was pretty cool and the big cinematic events were fun, but most of the side quests, especially in Kuttenberg, were really shit and not very interesting.
There was a lot of handholding during the quests as well that I feel like you wouldn't have gotten in the first one either. Like when you were unraveling the groschen fraud, you didn't have to do any thinking yourself during the investigation, just run to a dude, pass a speech check, and run to another dude. You also can't really fail any quests, you just get a game over and you have to try again.
The trosky region was overall much better, even if the quests weren't difficult, they were at least often funny. And the twist with zizska was really cool. Kuttenberg was mostly a slog outside of the main quests though. And even then,the character building and dialogue outside of established characters was pretty bad. You go through all this trouble of building a gang, but you don't really get to know them. You should have had side quests outside of recruiting them so that you can actually build a rapport with them. As it is Henry has like 2 or three conversations with them and acts like they are all best friends. In KCD1, you compete and go hunting with Hans, slowly building a rapport. This is pretty much absent in KCD2 other than Katherine, but even her quests don't involve you doing stuff with her, you just run off with her and then basically dump all the info on her when you get back and she says like one sarcastic line in response.
Having those types of side quests would have been much better than the slop side quests in the Kuttenberg area. As it was it was mostly just fetch quests for unnamed NPCs. The only ones that sticks out in my mind after all those hours is the swordmaster quest.
