Posted on: January 18, 2019
MatroxMedik
Verified ownerGames: 554 Reviews: 9
Prototype of RPG game as it should be
I don't often write reviews, but seeing some reviews about this game just saddened me. I first launched this game on the brink of my 17 years, and to be honest it was by accident.I always was a thinker, wondering about everything. In the begining, I had moral problems playing it, being young and naive, and not experienced in the ways of real life. This game opened it for me (at least it explained much- what is common in my mother land). I started to enjoy it - subtle truths hidden in every last aspect and details of the game. For me it was an art, philisophy, not something where everything was about shooting, or clicking, or grinding or whatever pc fans endorse these days. And those moral choices (and something which doesn't force you to adopt ethics or morality of modern world, because we all know human base nature is cruel and primitive), those points of view, those characterizations, turns of events, non linear story, feeling you aren't playing some great saviour hero everybody loves. In fact Geralt and witchers remind me of many proffesions of our world which aren't appreciated. We commonly look down on many of them. I could relate to my own people and culture. Hunting monsters reminded me of fairy tales told to our children (where we teach them how to become righteous heroes), yet in darker setting as if it was told to a mature listener, where there arent shiny knights, where there arent good/ evil, but there are shades of grey and greater and lesser evils. Diablo has minimal story/ RPG elements, played it but that's it, now can't even look at it. Yet this game, this "Witcher" ... shows potential even after all those years and I can have a good laugh or a good thinking time, when I don't want to spend my time just mashing buttons. P.S. I played this game before reading Sapkowski's books :D I loved how convenient developers made it Geralt lost his memory... by the time Geralt recovered it I managed to read through those books. That was legendary experience.
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