Posted on: April 2, 2020

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Verified ownerGames: 259 Reviews: 5
The game that wanted to be like Gothic
The Witcher 2 is a game that have ups and downs. The story is great, despite being a bit confusing due to the over presence of "fantasy name" that you don't recognize immediately. The story is divided in 3 acts (+ epilogue), but i don't like at all the first act, the best act is the second and the third act is very short. Is possible to make decisions that change the story and this is very good. The characters are great and i really like them. There are some secondary quest, but the quality is not always at the best. Some secondary quest are really great, other quest like the hunt contracts are very boring and often force you to use the traps that i don't want to use (magic signs are more fun). Overall the game is lacking the sense of freedom and the world is limited with predefined paths that you have to follow. Another example is the use of stealth where you are forced by the game to use it and you can't use it when you want. Is funny that the first Gothic doesn't have that kind of limitations. At first i don't like the combat system, but when you get more powerfull swords (the only type of weapons that deserve to be used), armor and signs the experience improves (but i hate QTE). The worst problem of the game is the use of potions. You have to meditate to create potions, but you can't do this in combat, so you have to speculate when a potion will be usefull and the consequence is that you waste a lot of potion or you don't use it at all when you need it. I hate this system so much. The inventory and the quest journal is ok, but a little unwieldy and also the game lack a shared management of all this things. For example if you are in the quest journal and want to see the map you can't do it, but you have to close the quest journal and open the map. Is like quest journal, map and inventory are 3 different menù not linked at all. The game is fun, but some things could have been done better. I hope The witcher 3 is better. Rating: 7.8/10
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