Posted on: January 13, 2020
Endryoo
Verified ownerGames: 63 Reviews: 15
Overrated—good but not great
Pros: • Great voice acting. • If you like open-worlds this game features one the richest I’ve encountered. Lots of stuff to explore. • Top notch graphics. • The music is cool, even though it lacks variety in certain locations (particularly Velen, which has the worst, most annoying sound track except the swamp battle theme). Cons: • The plot may be hard to comprehend if you’re unfamiliar with the previous installments. • This game is not gameplay oriented but rather story driven. Combat (swordfighting) is hardly satisfying. It’s not as bad as in Skyrim but not as good as in Dark Souls. It could be easily repaired if the developers implemented two things: stamina-drain on dodging and attacking as well as improvement of the parry system. Right now, the standard tactic is to hit and dodge infinitely which is boring and unrewarding. Also it’s quite easy to parry human opponents but parrying monsters is nigh-impossible. The parry window should be extended for them. Either this or the system should be reworked to something which resembles Batman Arkham series combat. • I’m in two minds when it comes to animations. The ones used in cutscenes are pretty good, but the ones used in dialogues (which you see 90% of the time) are absolutely horrible. They’re sluggish and lifeless. The same, though to a lesser degree, concerns Geralt’s movement. His animations are unresponsive and too long. • There are lots of points of interest on the map. Usually they’re either bandit camps or guarded treasures. However, since combat isn’t the games forte, visiting them is a chore. Besides there is simply too many of them. Instead of adding such fillers the developers should have worked on new interesting quests or improving combat—which brings me to the point that the game is simply to big. There’s too much of everything. Witcher 2 made a much better job in this regard—being much more consise.
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