Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales

It has superb story and great visuals. It had a few bugs and mis-translations(Korean) at the lanch, but they seem to have fixed wrong Korean translations. Not sure about the bugs since they're not very easy to reproduce, but I'm sure they're patching that too. My biggest complaint is that the normal battles(which takes about the half of the game's battles) are way too easy. Puzzle battles are fine, since you're given a pre-determined deck. However for normal battles where you fight with your own deck, even at the highest difficulty I found the game to pose almost no challenge.

An exciting story told through a novel medium, Thronebreaker does both gwent and the witcher universe justice. The compelling narrative drags you in to the game and after a while you start enjoying the puzzle like nature of the battles. As an rpg fan who was always more into strategy in battles and realism in stories I veritably loved this game!

- you cant' save decks, each time you have to change something, you cant' go back easily to your previous deck - the way ressources are managed is dumb (no penalities most of the time, you gain, you gain, you gain ...) - you have to click your way !!!!! it is so annoying to move your character by clicking, and it's what you do most of the time. - puzzles are for the most of them completly dumb (don't do this anymore, or hire someone who actually can design fun and fair puzzles) - way to many "1 round only" battle (and guess what, it's dumb if you build your deck to win in two rounds... so when you have to change your deck, well, build it froim scratch, as you can't save decks ...) - you gain in solo game bonuses for something outside of the solo game ... WHAT THE F*** , CDPR ?????? - AI is dumb, it can use positive cards on your side of the battle field, doesn't focus a dangerous card etc etc .... - if you check your deck, the next loading screen will freeze ... good ideas, but they were wasted, thrnobreaker is just an "ok" game, thanks to the story and the graphics, butthe excution if full of flaws.

The core of this game is the story, and an amazing one it is. Choice & Consequence, surprises, betrayals, vengeance, redemption... fantastic. The rest of the mechanics, Gwent and exploring, don't rise to the same level of excellence, but they are more than fine too.

After playing all the Witcher games and reading all the books and comics, I noticed one key Nothern monarch never appear in any of the games, and is barely mentioned...Queen Meve of Lyria and Rivia. A character who seemed to win basically the second Nilfgaard war all by herself in the face of overwhelming opposition. That is all taken care of in Thronebreaker thankfully. Thronebreaker Gwent style gameplay isn't going to be for everyone (I enjoyed it a lot myself), and the navigation around the regional maps isn't very innovated but it not awful either (reminds me of Warcraft). However, if you like a grand story mixed in with some of the best thought provoking grey area decision making ever (game calls it lesser of two evils) this game will not disappoint. As a Witcher fan boy, I found very little to dislike but I maybe bias to because of that.