«History rhymes. It's not repeating itself. It rhymes.» Warhorse's global PR manager Tobias Stolz-Zwilling is paraphrasing an aphorism often attributed to Mark Twain—though its origins are actually unknown.
He is bemoaning the fact that, once again, the Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 studio has found itself embroiled in the exhausting culture war.
Back in 2017, before the launch of the first Kingdom Come: Deliverance, the game caught some flack from critics who questioned its lack of people of colour and if that was truly historically accurate.
This prompted some genuinely interesting discussions about medieval Europe and its portrayal, but it also saw battle lines being drawn.
Some wrote the game off as an ahistorical, overly homogenous view of Czechia, while others rushed to its defence and celebrated it for pushing back the 'woke' agenda.