This is a resource management game with an enticing enough GOT-esque narrative to convince you that you're in for a bit of a treat. Who wouldn't love to debate internally over making complex resource decisions that have an ultimate impact on the welfare of your people? I wanted that so bad! This game tries that with hellishly boring mechanics and a facade of meaningful choices. I will be the first to admit that I struggled to finish this game. Allocating the correct resources or agents to send over peasant requests was tricky at times, and not because the game's naturally difficult. Rather, the game failed to convey what actions should take priority to succeed. The path to success is so vague and frustrating that it becomes a guessing game on when to make certain decisions. There's not much strategic tinkering and intuitive decision-making needed to cross the finish line. I would know, having barely scraped by with any amount of resources till the end of the story, then winning with ease. There are a couple of climactic battles the game props up as crucial moments you have to prepare for. It's all a lie! and it pisses me off because they completely invalidate the player's choices and attempt to critically maneuver through each week/level. Once that curtain was pulled back in the first battle, I deliberately tried to do the least amount of things possible with the least amount of resources to try and see if I could still win the final big battle. Spoilers... I did (To start I truly thought I had no shot). The game shoves a bunch of, what seem to be, necessary objectives to protect your castle and if you do absolutely none of them the outcome is not affected at all. These static outcomes might be easier to inhale if the decisions leading up to them weren't the most integral part of the game. And with the menu mechanics and background environments being as minimal as they are YOU NEED those decisions to matter or influence outcome. Otherwise, the game is basically an on-rail text scroller in a Halloween costume. The early moments can be partially satisfying, but once you realize the gameplay and strategy don't remotely evolve it develops into a chore. I felt as if I was speed-running the last third of the story as there was legitimately little to do and again no strategy to be had. There are some cute family ties and small character moments that soften the monotony. Still, your brain will be smooth after this experience.

A great example of a game that fucks up on the simple stuff and makes me hate it. Just moving through the castle is torture. Having to walk to the edge of the screen in every room over and over again at your stupid, leisurely monarch pace. I feel like game-makers get let off the hook way to easy for this shit. Mechanically there's nothing interesting going on and no effort to connect mechanics w content. This is core game shit imo. Played it a while ago and probably had more concrete complaints then but I don't remember them.

Tvůrci se snaží o sofistikovaný propojovací stupeň mezi sérií Reigns a sérií Kingdom. Podstatné slůvko je "snaží". A snaha, přes veškerou sympatičnost, ne vždy stačí.

Tam kde Reigns nabízejí geniálně jednoduché a jednoduše geniální "tinderovské" rozhodování o Sophiiných volbách, tam se tento titul uchyluje k po čase vyloženě otravně p-o-m-a-l-é-m-u ploužení se napříč (nádhernými) obrazovkami k postavě/místu, kde ještě než se na cestu vydáte, přesně víte jaké možnosti volby se vám naskytnou. To je první zásadní problém, jelikož takto plahočit se z místa na místo budete neustále. Umocněné to je pak tím, že nabízené volby jsou vesměs černobíle odstupňovány. Jedna je za ztrátu drahocenných surovin dobro v dlouhodobém měřítku, za menší ztrátu/zisk okamžitý zisk, který může v aktuální situaci pomoci, a třetí vyloženě špatná možnost. Je to samozřejmě zaobaleno/skryto do nějaké té okecávací omáčky, ale rozhodně zde neplatí, že žádná volba není dobrá/špatná/pragmatická. Protože je. Tady, oproti jiným obdobným titulům, neprofilujete sebe jakožto vladaře, ale činíte rozhodnutí tak, jak je po vůli autorům. A běda jestli ne, pak vám to hra dá rychle sežrat.

Ani to nemusí být nutně špatně, jenže i když držíte hubu a krok, tak zdejší bohatá dějová linie je natolik plná klišé, že pokud jste někdy četli/viděli/hráli cokoli se o fantasy otírající, tak přesně odhadnete průběh, zvraty, charaktery, vývoj no takřka vše. Není špatná, jen... Tuctovější než tuctová. Byť v zásadě dobře podaná.

Jinak tomu není co vytknout, zní to přenádherně, vypadá ještě lépe, dialogy nejsou špatně napsány (až na občasné odlehčení vážnosti situace skrze "humory", to se autorům opakovaně nedaří), postavy vesměs nenudí, mnohé vám nebudou ukradené, source management stránka hry je komplexní a celé to pospolu tak nějak funguje. Jenže k čemu to, když tyto pozitivní aspekty přijímáte skrze nezábavné plahočení se, (ne)volby a tisíckrát ohraný příběh.

Nejde o špatnou hru, jen ryze tuctovou, která si vzala za cíl sesadit z trůny velikány tohoto v poslední době oblíbeného subžánru, ale zůstala hluboko ve stínu jednoho každého z nich. Není to špatné, když je to dobré, tak je to velmi dobré, není nuda to hrát, ale k čemu je to dobré, když je otrava to hrát a jeden se musí div ne přemáhat to pustit, protože již dopředu ví, že aby se dostal k těm dobrým a zábavným momentům, tak se k nim bude plahočit? Škoda, ambice i potenciál to má. Jejich převedení do praxe však pokulhává. Dvojnásobná škoda, protože v momentech, kdy si to sedne, tak se naplno ukazuje, jak skvělé to mohlo být. Tak snad případný druhý díl nabídne to, co si autoři vytyčili již pro tento.

Yes Your Grace was a fun game. The first playthrough is definitely a bit challenging, since the different resources seem to be dwinlding really quickly and the player, playing as King Eryk, seems to have to make difficult decisions balancing their own interests, that of their subjects, and the kingdom's well-being almost constantly. The narrative is compelling and most of the characters are really endearing.

That being said, it's a game that suffers from its replayability: since there are multiple endings, one might feel compelled to play it more than once, but I discovered quite rapidly that the choices that feel important during the first playthrough are more often than not semi-inconsequential. Now, whether or not it matters to you as a player, I believe, is entirely personal. For me, this did not spoil my initial enjoyment of the game: I had a really lovely time playing and went in for a second playthrough thinking I had finished the game when I really hadn't - there was a whole other half to play!

I would recommend this game. It's a compelling narrative experience.

Hmm, it was a cool enough kingdom management game with nice pixel art but though had a lot of gripes by the end. At first I liked how tightly you had to balance your wealth and supplies to try and keep your subjects happy without running out of resources, but over time it started getting a bit boring for me and felt longer than it actually is. Of course I made a lot of “poor” decisions that really felt like it started to weigh down heavily as the game progressed which I did like, putting myself in a disastrous last hour where I had only a few hundred against an army of thousands

At that point I fully expected to easily lose and get a bad ending but… I didn’t? Even with this overwhelmingly bad scenario I managed the game still said I was able to win regardless, which has me wondering if any of these choices really mattered lol. Why was I bothering to stress over getting allies the whole second half if you didn’t even need them by the end anyway? Eh