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* EarlyGameHell: Probably one of the game's most defining aspects. Henry starts out with absolutely no skills, skill books and alchemical recipes can't be read, trainers are expensive for a comparatively small benefit, and improving skills directly is very difficult. He can't hold a bow correctly or stop shaking long enough to hit the air surrounding the broad side of a barn, lockpicking is the game's ScrappyMechanic, pickpocketing is risky and largely luck-based, almost everyone encountered in the early game is a more capable fighter than Henry even before you meet trained soldiers, there's no healing during combat, and the save system is limited enough for a fall off a rock to cost hours of progress. It really says something that fighting a ''destitute town drunk'' is too much for most players to handle early on.
* EasterEgg: Multiple, including:
* EasterEgg: Multiple, including:
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* EarlyGameHell: Probably one of the game's most defining aspects. Henry starts out with absolutely no skills, skill books and alchemical recipes can't be read, trainers are expensive for a comparatively small benefit, and improving skills directly is very difficult. He can't hold a bow correctly or stop shaking long enough to hit the air surrounding the broad side of a barn, lockpicking is the game's ScrappyMechanic, pickpocketing is risky and largely luck-based, almost everyone encountered in the early game is a more capable fighter than Henry even before you meet trained soldiers, there's no healing during combat, and the save system is limited enough for a fall off a rock to cost hours of progress. It really says something that fighting a ''destitute town drunk'' is too much for most players to handle early on.
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* HateSink: Kunesh. Introduced as a disagreeable drunkard whose wife left him, and who owes Henry's father money and won't (and can't) pay. Later tries to give Henry the location to another fellow refugee's fortune to dodge his debt. Even if you pity him and give him a job in Pribyslavitz, he's still an ungrateful bastard. On the plus side, he's a total ButtMonkey: you can beat him up as often as you like--in Skalitz, Rattay or Pribyslavitz, right in front of the guards if you like!--and you won't get in trouble; no one comes to his aid.
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* HateSink: Kunesh. Introduced as a disagreeable drunkard whose wife left him, and who owes Henry's father money and won't (and can't) pay. Later tries to give Henry the location to another fellow refugee's fortune to dodge his debt. Even if you pity him and give him a job in Pribyslavitz, he's still an ungrateful bastard. On the plus side, he's a total ButtMonkey: you can beat him up as often as you like--in Skalitz, Rattay or Pribyslavitz, right in rightin front of the guards if you like!--and you won't get in trouble; no one comes to his aid.
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* LukeIAmYourFather: About two-thirds of the way through the game, Henry is captured by the real villain, [[spoiler:Istvan Toth]], who reveals to him that [[spoiler:Sir Radzig is his real father. Radzig claims he was going to tell Henry eventually, but having a bastard child was a touchy subject back then. Only four other (still-living) characters knew the secret.]]
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* ParentsAsPeople: All the parents in the story are shown to be flawed but ultimately well-meaning in their own way:
** Martin and Henry's mother are GoodParents. Their only flaws, if that, are the latter somewhat spoiling her son and the former being a FantasyForbiddingFather who's very stern about Henry learning his trade and staying in the village without having the life of adventure he craves. [[spoiler:Martin also isn't Henry's birth father and yet raised him as his own, which is rather noteworthy for the time period.]]
** Theresa's father is a mixed bag. On one hand, he steals the King's silver (which could get him and his entire family burned at the stake) and puts Theresa in an ArrangedMarriage with the ''much'' older Tobias Feyfar. However, he justifies both actions as looking out for his family. If Theresa is more patient when airing out her issues about the latter, he claims that he only wants what's best for her and agrees to talk about said marriage at a later time.
** [[spoiler:Radzig is a lord who impregnated Henry's mother, a peasant, so he couldn't marry her. Despite this, he arranges for her to marry Martin, who was a good husband and father, and looks out of Henry throughout the story. However, as Istvan Toth points out, he never acknowledges Henry despite him being orphaned and in need of a parental figure and has no compunction about sending him on extremely dangerous missions throughout the game. Radzig only starts acknowledging Henry as his son after Toth first spills the beans, which could cast some doubts on his sincerity.]]
** Martin and Henry's mother are GoodParents. Their only flaws, if that, are the latter somewhat spoiling her son and the former being a FantasyForbiddingFather who's very stern about Henry learning his trade and staying in the village without having the life of adventure he craves. [[spoiler:Martin also isn't Henry's birth father and yet raised him as his own, which is rather noteworthy for the time period.]]
** Theresa's father is a mixed bag. On one hand, he steals the King's silver (which could get him and his entire family burned at the stake) and puts Theresa in an ArrangedMarriage with the ''much'' older Tobias Feyfar. However, he justifies both actions as looking out for his family. If Theresa is more patient when airing out her issues about the latter, he claims that he only wants what's best for her and agrees to talk about said marriage at a later time.
** [[spoiler:Radzig is a lord who impregnated Henry's mother, a peasant, so he couldn't marry her. Despite this, he arranges for her to marry Martin, who was a good husband and father, and looks out of Henry throughout the story. However, as Istvan Toth points out, he never acknowledges Henry despite him being orphaned and in need of a parental figure and has no compunction about sending him on extremely dangerous missions throughout the game. Radzig only starts acknowledging Henry as his son after Toth first spills the beans, which could cast some doubts on his sincerity.]]
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted. Daniel Vávra (the game's lead designer) was criticized by a few people when he revealed that the game would have no black characters because there is zero historical evidence for black people being present in medieval rural Bohemia; the historians he consulted with reportedly laughed when he asked them if there were any. Which isn't to say there aren't non-Europeans who ''were'' historically present at the time; you'll be coming across plenty of Cumans, a nomadic people originally from the Eurasian steppes who settled in Hungary and form the core of King Sigismund's invading army. The final DLC, ''A Woman's Lot'', plays with this further. Theresa can fight if the player so chooses, but she doesn't have access to many of the perks Henry does once he levels up, and cannot wear armour, which makes direct combat, particularly against armoured opponents, a riskier venture.
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* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: PoliticallyCorrectHistory:
** Averted. Daniel Vávra (the game's lead designer) was criticized by a few people when he revealed that the game would have no black characters because there is zero historical evidence for black people being present in medieval rural Bohemia; the historians he consulted with reportedly laughed when he asked them if there were any. Which isn't to say there aren't non-Europeans who ''were'' historically present at the time; you'll be coming across plenty of Cumans, a nomadic people originally from the Eurasian steppes who settled in Hungary and form the core of King Sigismund's invading army. The final DLC, ''A Woman's Lot'', plays with this further. Theresa can fight if the player so chooses, but she doesn't have access to many of the perks Henry does once he levels up, and cannot wear armour, which makes direct combat, particularly against armoured opponents, a riskierventure.venture.
** The commonfolk and lords show dated views that were commonplace at the time. Just about everyone has a StayInTheKitchen attitude, even ReasonableAuthorityFigure Divish, and Hanush is as eager as the Vicar to burn heretics who would be seen as harmless in the modern day. A monk in the Sasau monastery is also ostracized and shamed for being accused of engaging in sodomy.
** Possibly played straight with Henry. Depending on dialogue options, he can show himself to be egalitarian, accepting of people from all walks of life, and caring about anyone regardless of them being from ostracized positions in society. However, he is the only one who expresses these views, marking him as the exception rather than the rule.
** Averted. Daniel Vávra (the game's lead designer) was criticized by a few people when he revealed that the game would have no black characters because there is zero historical evidence for black people being present in medieval rural Bohemia; the historians he consulted with reportedly laughed when he asked them if there were any. Which isn't to say there aren't non-Europeans who ''were'' historically present at the time; you'll be coming across plenty of Cumans, a nomadic people originally from the Eurasian steppes who settled in Hungary and form the core of King Sigismund's invading army. The final DLC, ''A Woman's Lot'', plays with this further. Theresa can fight if the player so chooses, but she doesn't have access to many of the perks Henry does once he levels up, and cannot wear armour, which makes direct combat, particularly against armoured opponents, a riskier
** The commonfolk and lords show dated views that were commonplace at the time. Just about everyone has a StayInTheKitchen attitude, even ReasonableAuthorityFigure Divish, and Hanush is as eager as the Vicar to burn heretics who would be seen as harmless in the modern day. A monk in the Sasau monastery is also ostracized and shamed for being accused of engaging in sodomy.
** Possibly played straight with Henry. Depending on dialogue options, he can show himself to be egalitarian, accepting of people from all walks of life, and caring about anyone regardless of them being from ostracized positions in society. However, he is the only one who expresses these views, marking him as the exception rather than the rule.
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Since the grappling trope is also used for Dwarf Fortress, I figure that it would be fine to use for Kingdom Come. Also, Good Old Fisticuffs isn't about fighting with fists, but about untrained fighters defeating those with formal training (which doesn't apply to Kingdom Come)
* EmergencyWeapon: The Unarmed skill. Unlike other fighting styles, it does not include any kind of perk. Hand-to-hand combat is mostly intended for bar brawls and one-on-one "boxing" matches in certain moments of the game. While it's possible to overwhelm and pummel armed opponents with Henry's bare fists, such a tactic is unlikely to succeed against a decently armored enemy. So make sure you bring a proper weapon to serious fights.
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* FinishingStomp: One of the two ways to MercyKill enemies, with a crunchy sound in case you doubted it's lethality.
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* FinishingStomp: One of the two ways to MercyKill enemies, with a crunchy sound in case you doubted it's its lethality.
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* GoodOldFisticuffs: The Unarmed skill. Unlike other fighting styles, it does not include any kind of perk. Hand-to-hand combat is mostly intended for bar brawls and one-on-one "boxing" matches in certain moments of the game. While it's possible to overwhelm and pummel armed opponents with Henry's bare fists, such a tactic is unlikely to succeed against a decently armored enemy. So make sure you bring a proper weapon to serious fights.
* GrapplingWithGrapplingRules: While clinching itself is fine, and works wonders for rendering your enemies defenseless, the problem with it is that there's [[GuideDangIt no tutorial for it]], even when you're training with Bernard. It also becomes ridiculously easy with the Clinch Master perk, as you're typically guaranteed to win a clinch with this perk.
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* GuideDangIt: The Queen of Sheba sword quest. [[spoiler:One of the sword pieces is in the hand of Pickman, who will only hand it to you as a reward for a completely different quest, the Aquarius quest. The game never even hints at this. What is more, you not only have to give him a job as a water bearer during the Aquarius quest but basically blackmail him - a penniless refugee from your hometown - into giving you a reward as well. If you complete the Aquarius quest without doing this, Pickman's piece of the sword winds up in the possession of the Rattay blacksmith, but no dialogue from Pickman or the smith will tell you as much.]]
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* GuideDangIt: GuideDangIt:
** The Queen of Sheba sword quest. [[spoiler:One of the sword pieces is in the hand of Pickman, who will only hand it to you as a reward for a completely different quest, the Aquarius quest. The game never even hints at this. What is more, you not only have to give him a job as a water bearer during the Aquarius quest but basically blackmail him - a penniless refugee from your hometown - into giving you a reward as well. If you complete the Aquarius quest without doing this, Pickman's piece of the sword winds up in the possession of the Rattay blacksmith, but no dialogue from Pickman or the smith will tell you as much.]]]]
** Clinching is a thing in the game, but good luck understanding how it works, since the game doesn't tell you anything. First, you have to approach the enemy until you grab them, then you have to press the attack or kick buttons, which pushes your enemy a variable distance forward and briefly renders them defenseless, along with causing some damage if you're unarmed. Oh, and since it depends heavily on relative stats and whether you have the Clinch Master perk, newbies can be easily confused when they fail to win a clinch.
** The Queen of Sheba sword quest. [[spoiler:One of the sword pieces is in the hand of Pickman, who will only hand it to you as a reward for a completely different quest, the Aquarius quest. The game never even hints at this. What is more, you not only have to give him a job as a water bearer during the Aquarius quest but basically blackmail him - a penniless refugee from your hometown - into giving you a reward as well. If you complete the Aquarius quest without doing this, Pickman's piece of the sword winds up in the possession of the Rattay blacksmith, but no dialogue from Pickman or the smith will tell you as much.
** Clinching is a thing in the game, but good luck understanding how it works, since the game doesn't tell you anything. First, you have to approach the enemy until you grab them, then you have to press the attack or kick buttons, which pushes your enemy a variable distance forward and briefly renders them defenseless, along with causing some damage if you're unarmed. Oh, and since it depends heavily on relative stats and whether you have the Clinch Master perk, newbies can be easily confused when they fail to win a clinch.
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* UnusableEnemyEquipment: Enforced in the game's opening. The Cuman gear requires stats that outside of extensive cheating are impossible to get during the opening tutorial and thus Henry can't make any use of it - and he will be hard-pressed to win combat without another bout of cheesing the mechanics. Downplayed later on, as it's all up to players to train Henry enough to use any equipment he will get his hands on, but there is ''always'' a stat gate to all gear.
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* {{Callback}}: At the end of the game's prologue, Henry is about to be killed by bandits when suddenly Theresa the miller's daughter steps from the shadows and distracts them with a defiant, "Hey, [[PrecisionFStrike goatfuckers]]!" The bandits turn to see Sir Robard of Talmberg and his men [[TheCavalry cavalry charging]] them. Much later in the game, [[spoiler:Talmberg castle is captured by bandits]], and the lords hear that reinforcements are on their way to try to break the seige. Sir Robard gives a pep talk to his men before the battle, calling the approaching army, "goatfuckers" and telling his men, "And if there's one thing we pride ourselves on here in Talmberg, it's that we defend the honor of our goats!"
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* {{Callback}}: At the end of the game's prologue, Henry is about to be killed by bandits when suddenly Theresa the miller's daughter steps from the shadows and distracts them with a defiant, "Hey, [[PrecisionFStrike goatfuckers]]!" The bandits turn to see Sir Robard of Talmberg and his men [[TheCavalry cavalry charging]] them. Much later in the game, [[spoiler:Talmberg castle is captured by bandits]], and the lords hear that reinforcements are on their way to try to break the seige.siege. Sir Robard gives a pep talk to his men before the battle, calling the approaching army, "goatfuckers" and telling his men, "And if there's one thing we pride ourselves on here in Talmberg, it's that we defend the honor of our goats!"
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* RingOfPower: During the "Besmirched" quest, Henry will be sent on a quest by his late girlfriend's brother to recover their stolen family fortune, which will lead him to a charcoal burner's camp. One of the charcoal burners has the loot in question, but if Henry tries to intimidate the others and is successful, one of them gives up a ring--not a part of the treasure you're searching for--that gives visibility, conspicuousness and noise bonuses (helpful in stealth).
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* {{Callback}}: At the end of the game's prologue, Henry is about to be killed by bandits when suddenly Theresa the miller's daughter steps from the shadows and distracts them with a defiant, "Hey, [[PrecisionFStrike goatfuckers]]!" The bandits turn to see Sir Robard of Talmberg and his men [[TheCavalry cavalry charging]] them. Much later in the game, [[spoiler:Talmberg castle is captured by bandits]], and the lords hear that reinforcements are on their way to try to break the seige. Sir Robard gives a pep talk to his men before the battle, calling the approaching army, "goatfuckers" and telling his men, "And if there's one thing we pride ourselves on here in Talmberg, it's that we defend the honor of our goats!"
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** During the opening (training) quests, at one point Henry and his boyhood friends decide to play a prank on an old German neighbor who is talking against King in Wenceslaus the local inn, and supporting the usurping Sigismund, by throwing dung at his newly-whitewashed house. As Henry picks up a pile of dung, Matthew urges him to, "fire the trebuchet!" Near the end of the game, [[spoiler:Talmberg castle is taken by brigands, and a trebuchet is constructed to attack it. Henry is given the first shot.]]
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* RessurectiveImmortality: Played for laughs, as the Saviour Schnapps (potion used to manually save the game) recipe description states that whoever drinks it will save his soul and return to life in case of death.
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* RessurectiveImmortality: ResurrectiveImmortality: Played for laughs, as the Saviour Schnapps (potion used to manually save the game) recipe description states that whoever drinks it will save his soul and return to life in case of death.death. Czech version literally states that the potion will save the game (as czech word for save in context of videogames - uložit - is different to word for save in context of religion - spasit).
