The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition

The opening cutscene is pretty. That's the only good thing I've experienced about this game. The method they used to set the controls appears to be dropping scraps of paper onto the keyboard. You can't change the controls in-game. The dire settings widget, last seen in Windows 3.1, that you have to exit the game to use does not let you set all the controls, nor does it let you use arcane controls such as a mouse button that isn't LMB or RMB. The in-game display of which button you are supposed to use does not work, so you have to guess what GI_DOWN might mean, or perhaps you might only get a transparent square. The game sets a particular form of mouse smoothing by default that adds about a week's worth of lag to all your input. You need to track down and edit a config file to turn this off. The voice acting is awful. Just bored isolated people spouting nonsense at each other. How hard is it to pronounce the word "herbs" correctly? Too hard for these people, apparently. Don't even bother.

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Good

As with many others, I think the graphics are nicer but the overall game is a bit of a step down due to the quicktime events, simplified swordplay, and hard-to-manage inventory- though I will give the game credit for giving me a reasonable carrying limit and not making me visit an inn every five minutes to drop off my extra items like the first game. However, even the graphics are a little glitchy, with small items like amulets and hair jittering around and clipping through things, and it even crashed a couple times when going through a door, though that was rare. Most of all, the atmosphere and plot are a bit of a letdown. While the game tells a good story and involves lots of reading like the first, this time around it seems to be mostly about politics and remembering the names and relationships of literally dozens upon dozens of people and kingdoms. I get that Geralt being forced into politics against his will is a theme of both games, but I really feel like they went light on the monster-hunting in this one. Maybe I should try again with Iorveth's path instead of Roche's and see if it's any better? One plus side was the gradual reveal of more and more information about the Wild Hunt throughout the game, which I found interesting and foreboding and which gives me a lot of hope for the third installment, given its title. Also nice was that the sexism was slightly toned down for this one- it's still absolutely rampant, but it feels more like a natural part of the game's world now that Geralt isn't sleeping with half the women he meets and collecting nude trading cards of them. So in short, not a bad effort, but some bad design decisions and a lot of running around punctuated by massive, minutes-long infodumps that can be a bit overwhelming and hard to follow. Oh, and the Draug fight on Dark Mode is incredibly cheap and unfair, not to mention ten times harder than any other fight, so poor balancing too.

Better than Witcher 3 :D