Which is a shame because some of the areas in the game are still amazingly designed, but I can’t explore them to my heart’s content. You are forced to go through glorified corridors, and exploration is not as open. There are a few fast travel points here and there, but most of my time was spent traversing the same scenery over and over again. There’s also the problem of running back and forth everywhere. For most of the time, I just had to do the timed left-click on my mouse to win. And you know what? I barely found reasons to dodge. Some enemies will go down easy, while some enemies will tank your attacks until next year. There’s a group attack form, but the flurry takes way too long and you take damage just standing there. It’s super easy to get surrounded when facing multiple enemies. You can dodge/go over some enemies which cancel the flurry, but then it gives the enemy a time to attack. This really sucks because Geralt is essentially rooted whenever he does the flurries. There are three stances you can take depending on what sort of opponents are you facing.
Instead of individually inputting attack combos, you have to wait for Geralt to finish a flurry of attacks, then press attack again to launch another flurry of attacks. They might share a similar design and attack patterns, but I love the CDPR’s idea of having these different tyles, and we later get to see some REALLY powerful ones in B&W expansion in Witcher 3. For example, there’s no simple generic vampire, but in breaks down to different types such as Bruxa, Alps, Garkin, and Fleder. I love the fact there are sub-species within the same monster group. Speaking of monsters, I also love the monster designs here, and I can see the design being shared through the trilogy. Though I would argue This game is much darker. In my memory, the only other game that managed to hold the dark RPG genre was Dragon Age Origins.
Unlike other RPGs that claim to be dark but don’t seem to go too far, this game is actually dark and has some really disgusting subject matters. As you play the game, you come to see why some folks hate witchers. We see racial prejudice between humans and nonhumans, people living in slums doing dirty work to survive, and monsters hiding just around the corner. Yeah, there’s Zoltan, Dandelion, Lady of the Lake, Shani, and other major characters that you meet in later games, but characters such as An Craite family, Regis, and Henrietta, are nowhere in the game. I was a tad bit let down to see some of the future characters that I got to know in the sequels didn’t appear in this game, when it’s indicated Geralt had a history with them for quite some time. I am genuinely curious to see how much my choices will influence the story of the later game. The way I built relationships with the characters feels really significant, especially considering I know the eventual outcomes after playing W3. All the characters were really well-written, and I felt bad when some of them were caught in the mess that I had created. There are no clear good/bad groups here (aside from some NPCs who were designed for the sake of being evil), and the aftermath of my actions was always felt, in more ways than one. There’s always the moral ambiguity where no matter what choice I made, there are consequences to be paid. What the first game does excel at, like with its two sequels, was the story, the world-building, and the characters. And even then, the game ended up being my least favorite of the three. Won’t complain too much about graphics, but I had to make gameplay more tolerable. Because within the first few hours, I have felt the game was horribly outdated in terms of gameplay. I wondered if my thoughts on Witcher 3 would change as I observe the gameplay and technological changes, as well as seeing how the characters and the world evolve with the choices I’ve made So I bought the first two games during a steam sale and decided to play through the entire trilogy. While I loved Witcher 3, I distinctly remember also loving Witcher 2 but don’t remember too many details, and was also curious about the first game. I never played the first game, beat Witcher 2 on Xbox 360 once, then beat witcher 3 multiple times on Xbox One and on PC.
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My experience with the series has been somewhat weird.
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