The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine

This expansion is my favorite ever made, its extremely generous and has a lot of content for a very very fair price. The expansion adds amazing story and characters, adds new map that is very beautiful, the music is so nice and the gameplay improvements are very interesting. Masterpiece.

After all this praises, I'm still surprised how good it is.

Blood and Wine has everything I liked about Wild Hunt, but in a more focused area and with better pacing. Pro: - the antagonist is more interesting than the Wild Hunt, and also gets more screen time - the main sidekick, Regis, is my favorite character in the game, very entertaining to have around - there is only one patient buildup, not many localized peaks like in Wild Hunt. The pacing is better as a result - there is some minor additional build options with mutation research - Corvo Bianco is the only stronghold I liked in CRPG history - the enemies are more varied, and some have intresting attack patterns - the devs increased the common mobs, so it's not just drowner-ghoul-wolf anymore - some scenes are really breathtaking - looting is a bit simplified, you don't have to click on every individual container, only "a bunch of containers", which cuts a bit of tedium - there are quest awards which are actually great, and better than witcher gear! Yay! - for once, it's not raining, and the wind's not howling Cons: - I don't really like the colors they used for the environment, but it's a minor problem - mutations were not really tested, there is a clear winner, which is better than everything. (nothing forces the player to use it tho) - the game is still too easy I think, especially with an imported character In the case of Witcher "more of the same" should be a compliment I think. However in this case the devs actually improved the base game in many ways, and this DLC is like a shorter but more focused separate adventure. Some problematic things (story pacing, loot, itemization, enemy variety and patterns) were addressed, a few were left as is (difficulty, some OP combos), and there were no new problems introduced. This DLC is a win. While being a DLC, it has better quality content than most open world games.

Blood and wine is better than original

well worth buying, this expansion is a blast to play, and if you had not gone ng+ already, the perks from the this expansion will prepare you for it.