King's Bounty II (2021)

As someone who has not played the previous games in the King's Bounty series, I think it is a very below average game to evaluate without making comparisons with them. Although the graphics and animations seem far behind the period it came out, there is a very serious optimization problem, but even if you turn the graphics to the lowest, there are persistent FPS drops. Everything else is pretty generic and not very redeeming. In fact, the more details you dig into the game, the more flaws you keep finding. The main story doesn't seem interesting at all and the dialog and voice acting are pretty mediocre. The tedious fetch quests that follow only make things worse. To make it less obvious that the game is a walking simulator, the developers have added a horse to ride, but the riding mechanics are so bad that it makes you wonder if it would have been better if there were none. I've seen a similarly terrible horse-riding mechanic before in 2007's Two Worlds. In that game, our horse moved like a crazy who was literally uncontrollable. But it's not acceptable for a game released in 2021 to have the same terrible mechanics as a game released in 2007.