It’s tedious and lacks direction - ideal traits for anyone who’s played Mount & Blade or looking to spend the next week or five in front of their television. The game's concept sounds fun though in practice, it is average at best. Fortunately, the game isn’t too hard once you figure out the best ways to go about your adventure, though the number of losses can be absolutely devastating and annoying when they happen. Aside from that, I did an occasional quest or two every so often, but the difficulty curve is so steep unforgiving, and overwhelming. My game consisted of building a small army, buying goods, travelling the map, getting killed, buying more goods, getting looted, rebuilding my army, buying even more goods, and selling them.
There are quests and NPCs, but there is no mainline story or quest to follow, which makes it feel as if there isn’t anything to do. I’m not hating on the game, there just isn't much to it. The game lacks a significant objective. You can look around for more quests, help out a king, overthrow a country, or attack bandits outside of town. After you’ve learned how to take care of yourself and complete the initial quest, you're free to do whatever you please with your time. It does have the courtesy not to shove it's infodumps in your face at once. There’s an obscenely large wall of text to read for just about anything and there’s a lot of game mechanics and simulated diplomacy to understand. Unfortunately, you can’t just go into the game and inherently know what to do. You start out by customizing a character-to great lengths I must add-and thrown into a situation that gives you a quest. The game is fairly simple yet overly complex at the same time. However, something feels missing from the overall experience, making it all rather mediocre. Naturally, you’re left with hundreds of hours of gameplay to build up an army and expand your favored nation. It’s not that there isn’t enough content to delve into, it’s that there is too much content and generally feels overwhelming.
Mount & Blade: Warband is a deep and rich medieval era role playing strategy game that I really couldn’t get into for very long, though it offers a fairly unique, albeit sloppy experience. Have you ever played a game that seemed like it would be fun, enjoy it for the first hour or two only to realize the game just isn’t for you? Yeah, I think we all have.
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