Posted on: May 21, 2011
Thar
Verified ownerGames: 235 Reviews: 15
Not bad, but not so good either
I apprieciate the long, dynamic storyline and carefully designed quest. The graphics were top-notch in 2007 and music is very good, if not a bit repetitive. But Witcher is full of little things that can ruin all the fun. My foremost problem with this game are dialogues - large part of them were blantantly taken from books, which I am great fan of. So futher experience has been tainted from the start by the unshakeable feel of redundancy. The UI is almost a catastrophe. The only good part of it is equiping weapons. Inventory feels chaotic and game's attempts to automate some managament only make it worse. Skills screen makes your head spin unless you get used to it. And alchemy... n/c. I know the game must've had a certain, consistent look, but tables are being used all throughout cRPG genre for a reason. Combat system is plainly h'n's-ish, reflexes play as much a role as skills. Last but not least, I was appaled by the notion of being able to have sex with almost all of game's female cast of characters, and many secondary NPCs too. And usually it comes only after a several lines of cheap dialogue. Even BioWare is better at this.
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