The Witcher: Enhanced Edition

I finished the game and here are my thoughts below. Some spoilers for this game. This is my second review of the game (I asked GOG to delete my previous review). What I enjoyed: 1. The story - the game puts the gamer into morally grey situations to deal with racial tensions between men and elves in Temeria. I liked that Siegfried and Yaevinn were portrayed as two extremists depending on your choices. 2. The gameplay - Although the gameplay is old, it is easy to use even on the hardest difficulty and is quite enjoyable. 3. The music fits the game's atmosphere well. 4. The graphics are old, but it does not hurt the experience.

I would give it a 3.5/5. The story is just fantastic. It's a slow start, but when you reach Chapter 3, things start to unfold and it becomes really engaging. I really liked the way they portrayed Geralt. Your actions actually have weight and it was pretty cool. The combat is atrocious. It's repetitive and boring. Ennemies adore to use attacks that stun you, either through knock-out or pain and it just makes the combat frustrating. Use your oils otherwise it's a chore. I did like very much the different styles of fighting however. I thought it was nice. The game feels clunky. Geralt doesn't answer to input super well. When you are about to hit a cutscene, the game stops and then a slow fade to black to the cutscene. It's not bad, but it does break the flow of the game a lot. Sometimes you enter a room and you get jumped by the ennemies and it's just free damage on you. It was pretty annoying but heh. A lot of diaologue boxes for simple thing. For instance, in chapter 2-3, when you want to travel to the swamp, you need to click through 3 dialogues and a confirmation just to travel. EACH TIME. It's really annoying. The dialogues are awful. Apart from maybe Triss and Shani (and every witchers obviously), everyone sounds dead inside and a few time I noticed it wasn't even the same voice actor for the NPC I was talking too in the same conversation. The conversations can be pretty funny however. For its age, the game looks good I must say. The NPC are mostly all the same but I didn't really care. Overall the game is ok. I would recommand you play it only for Chapter 5 honestly. The end is so good!

Everyone told me to just go to The Witcher 3 directly, told me it was "cluncky"(as in old gameplay, bad mecanics, etc...). BUT it is surprisingly dinamic, the alchemy is interesting, and overall I am loving it. I do have mods installed that change textures and makes Geralt move like 16% faster, though it does not change a thing from story nor gameplay. :)

Bad voice acting, a very slow start for the first 5 hours or so, and a weak translation. Even so The Witcher is one of the finest RPGs ever made in which the choices you make have a real noticeable impact. These choices however, are never a clear choice between good and evil as there are only shades of grey in the world of the Witcher. Everything has its downside and every character its own self-serving agenda. The consequences of these choices are handled amazingly well, as they're never clear until much further along and they always have a very real impact on the story and how you are perceived in the game. Add to all this a great story that comes together brilliantly at the end, a great alchemy system, and a distinct lack of handholding in a game that trusts the player to be able to think for themselves, and the end-result is a brilliant RPG that does justice to the way they used to make RPGs.

From the bloated cutscenes, lacklustre dialogue, and uninteresting characters to the tedious control system, this is a dull, dull, dull grindfest from beginning to the point where I finally gave up out of boredom. Sword play takes up a large proportion of the game and is basically a matter of mouse-click, mouse-click [pause], mouse-click and so on ad infinitum in battles against various humans, beasties and boggarts that always follow a set routine of moves relating to their character or species type. You basically have one option when fighting which is click your mouse at the right time to watch your character (who by the way is a blank space that its hard to have any interest in whatsoever) deliver a blow. Fighting becomes very boring, very, very quickly. Outside of fighting you'll spend a lot of time endlessly running around the same bit of game world performing pointless side quests, and (I assume this was the game designers intention) taking part in the two god-awful side games of boxing and poker dice to raise cash. Just think of the endless hours of fun you can have playing a truly rubbish boxing game to earn enough oren's (the in game currency) to buy a book, in which the information contained will then allow you to run around killing monster after monster to harvest a brain, for example. The logic being that you cannot recognise, and therefore, are unable to see the brain of something you've killed, until you have read the right book. Fortunately, now you know about brains you can sell them to earn oren's, which ironically you don't really need many of to actually complete the game: To do that you have to basically whale on everything with a sword, and you get one of these for free at the start of the game. By your hundredth mouse clicking bashfest you won't really care about the cliched plot. Avoid: Like the plague in the game.