Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 2

I was going to recommend this game on the basis of it doing a lot of things better than their other games. But the developer is going to be using LLMs for their future games, and I do not recommend funding someone who does that. Furthermore, I do have a ton of issues with this game specifically: This game doesn't have any accessibility options, so if you have poor vision, you should give it a miss as the game doesn't give you anything for that. I have good vision and I found it hard to see a lot of things. Plot holes for one. There's a lot of things that really don't make sense. I don't like putting spoilers in my reviews, so I won't. But just a taste of one plot hole, there's a bit in the game where you have to close a portal. So you have to sacrifice someone, as they'll be on the other side of the portal, because you have to scatter a dust on both sides.... Why can't they scatter the dust, then come back through the portal and then scatter dust on this side? Nope, they gotta die... Okay, that's silly. There's a few other things that really don't make any sense. The gameplay is very much just busywork. Go buy this, go get this, go talk to that NPC, go get this thing. The first…

Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 2 is a calm and approachable adventure RPG that focuses more on exploration, helping people, gathering resources, and completing interconnected tasks than on traditional combat or complicated character development. Developed and published by Lonely Troops, it follows the established style of the series while telling a self-contained fantasy story. Its straightforward mechanics make it particularly suitable for players who enjoy casual adventures where steady progress and discovery are more important than difficulty. The story follows a princess who becomes tired of the limitations of royal life and decides to experience the kingdom from the perspective of an ordinary traveler. What begins as a personal journey quickly becomes much more serious when danger reaches her homeland. Strange creatures appear, citizens are forced to flee, and the kingdom is thrown into disorder. The princess must return and use her determination and resourcefulness to help those affected, uncover what caused the crisis, and restore stability. The narrative is easy to follow and maintains the warm, optimistic personality associated with the series. Gameplay revolves aro…

I liked this one a bit more than some of the others. I enjoy the Hero of the Kingdom games; they're a pretty chill way to spend an afternoon.

Part 5 is more of the same. After three good parts (Part 1, 2, 4) and a horrible, grindy and tedious 3rd part, we get a boring 5th part which does mechanicly nothing wrong, but which has an absolutly boring and convoluted story that tries to bind the four previous games together. My rating 5/10, not recommended.

Completed in ~3 hours which is reasonable for a "Lost Tales" adventure. First game where I managed to prevent myself from completing one of the quests by eating too many "Juicy Berry" items you can gather at the start and of which 30 are needed later in the game. First time that's happened with a HotK game. Otherwise it's more of the same. At this point that either scratches your itch or it doesn't.

Extremely boring. Backtracking the game.