The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

The first installment of The Witcher shows some age, with it's 2007 release. However, It's undeniable that a lot of time and effort was put into making it look great with what was available. Especially the full in game cutscenes. The writing of the Enhanced edition is also fantastic, even if you know nothing about the series(which the game even works with in it's story via amnesiac protagonist). In terms of Combat, it's an interesting mix. You can go for hours slicing through enemies like it's nothing, then hit a brick wall with some new monster that will laugh at almost anything you throw at it. However, it's not quite frustrating, as it encourages in-game research on each enemy, to find those weaknesses and exploit them. An ounce of preparedness helps as well, to keep a good selection of potions and oils on hand(haven't used bombs much though....). Overall, I would encourage people to give the first game a shot, simply to get a feel for the story if nothing else.

I'm probably one of the few who liked this far better than Witcher II. Why? Because I am a Sapokowski fan and I liked my third option of being neutral between rebellion and authoritarianism which didn't exist in TWII. Geralt spends much of the book time avoiding politics although not always with much success. The decisions had impact on the world around Geralt, sometimes less, sometimes more but I always felt they mattered somehow and I'd best be careful what to choose. And never knowing when a decision was going to come back to haunt or help down the road. One portion that wowed me was detecting the *wrong* killer in Ch2 and still being able to complete it all wrong with a harder boss fight. And no QTE's. I hated those in TWII. My rage at the misogynist cleric in CH1 was palpable. I was so enraged I didn't care what the consequences were if I saved the witch. Now that's emotional depth in a game! Yes, the sex cards were a bit silly. The environment was beautiful in it's day and it stills hold up reasonably well although the character models of course look aged. For some reason my old DVD copy won't load onto my new hard drive [one of the few games I paid full price for, too!] so I guess I will pick up a sale copy here on GOG so I can virtually hug my old friends in it and maybe play it through again. If you have an old machine or just want to play the entire series, for the few dollars you will get plenty of entertainment value out of this game. I thought it was well worth the full price when I bought it 'way back and there's very few games I can say that about!

... In date order! So if you want to see the latest comments (e.g. about the patch released, this week), you have to scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the "next-reviews" arrow 108 times! That would take longer than I spent playing the game!

Played on Steam before. The lore is good, but the battle system and game pace is terrible.

The Story: I am not yet over with the story, but it's plots are very great as far as i was possible to advance in the story. The story is a mixture between a crimestory (and Gerald is the detective) and a "Save the world" Plot, at least in some ways. The characters are well made with own unique characteristict for every one of them. Please excuse that i don't want to go into the story itself, because i don't want give spoilers. The features: 1: Fightingsystem: It's interisting and other than in other RPG's ,but i have to say that the little amount of possibilities to fight makes this game very very repetitive in terms of fighting. But i've seen worse. 2: The World: The wither contains a world wich isn't open at all, but you have restricted areas to walk and interact in but these areas are realisticly limited and huge enough to feel like open world. Between 2 of theese restriced areas you have to load the next one, so it's more like a level system. But the developers have solved this very good due to finding good reasons why the player can't leave a city (spoiler: It'S because of the pestilencia that does you not allow to enter a certain area in the citiy of wysima at least form the beginning) You can meet enough people wich tell you cool stories or let you do sidequests. And now to the biggest issue i have with this game : The sexual content . Before you turn away : It's not a moralistic reason i hate this (at least i am nobody of theese people that judge over everything what contains nudity even heavier like they judge over murder. You will meet many people in the game wich are just there and do just have own dialogs because you can have sex with them WHY? It just destroyes the cool world when you can't even get around some of theese scenes and they are totaly not fitting the story and just unneccesary. It destroys the harmony in the game... It's deletable in data fortunatly. But i stil wonder what CD Projekt thought...