Posted on: October 26, 2018

glaeddyvan_

Jeux: 196 Avis: 5

The extended family of the Witcher

The story telling in this game is riveting to the point where you would have played the whole game in one, single bated breath. Though the (five) maps are linear to look at - there is not a semblance of linearity in gameplay . With every shining rock which catches your attention, you'll be pushed down a road to collect and complete more and more objectives. With almost 5 hours spent in 5 maps with one of the repeating as prologue and epilogue, the 30+ hours you spend on this game will fly past leaving you both wholesome and yet yearning for more. In spite of barely knowing these characters at all, you find tethered to them and their emotions. Like the Witcher trilogy, every decision you make splits into a path you will find an emotional bond to, giving the players many chances of replayability - 20 to be precise. The story picks up from the perspective of Meve - the Queen of Lyria and Rivia who took to Guerilla Warfare during the Second War with Nilfgaard as presented in the Witcher books by Andrzej Sapkowski. CDPR extended the tale of Meve - the character only introduced by Sapkowski, and provided her a fleshed out background and an epic tale in between her defeat and her winning back her legacy. Again, thrust in the twisted and gruesome world of the Witcher, no event can be labeled as righteous and evil. With a small army at her disposal, Meve is presented with a world of pain and consequences – one she must brave to achieve victory. In between the main events of the game – interaction by no means takes a backfoot. With numerous activities happening along her path, Meve can either choose to participate or to opt out – every choice which will come back to bite her when least expected.

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Posted on: November 3, 2018

BordeyLimes

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Jeux: 6 Avis: 1

High potential: Ruined by being too easy

I was looking quite a lot forward to playing this game, both as a big fan of Gwent and the Witcher series in general. Sadly, I was left quite disappointed with the game. I'll list both the pros and cons I found with the game below: + The world of the Witcher is as interesting as ever. + Meve is a well written and interesting character to play as. + The game looks very pretty; The map and 3D models look nice and the art displayed in the cards is top of the class. ++ Music is fantastic. ++ Many cards have very interesting and unique abilities, which make them fun to experiment with. +++ A lot of the puzzles and fights have been designed extremely well. They exhibit much more creativity than I was expecting for a game of this type. ----- The game is too easy. Way, way too easy. I played the game on the hardest difficulty and even still it was a complete cakewalk; Sometimes I felt like I should've picked the easiest difficulty just so I could skip fights, as they don't offer any challenge. This is a huge redaction in points, as you can misplay and use bad cards all you like but you will still fly through the fights. --- Some puzzles have bad design: The Pestilence puzzle being a particular offender. You NEED random hits to strike just the right targets in order to clear this puzzle, and I don't feel leaving the puzzle solution to random chance is good design. -- The game is veeery buggy. Sometimes I couldn't move my character for no reason, requiring me to restart the game; some of the card abilities simply do not work at all (Strays of Spalla and Isbel, for instance) and some puzzles can be beaten unfairly easily because you can target cards you shouldn't be able to (Gascon Sneak puzzle) - A lot of the game time is "filler": The game can boast "30+ HOURS OF GAMEPLAY" all it wants, but in the end a lot of it is just walking around collecting resources. All in all, the game is heavily undermined by its lack of difficulty. If you look for a challenge, do NOT buy this.

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Posted on: November 18, 2018

shadinio

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Jeux: 58 Avis: 1

Weird mess of a game

Poorly balanced. Playing on medium difficulty and only Act 1 presented any real challenge since at that point your deck's quite limited. But as soon as you jump into the next chapter, any real challenge disappears from the game. That manticore miniboss fight? Visually looked so cool. Designed so cheaply and poorly! Poor UI/UX. Text widgets showing up on top or under reach other. Actions will happen and reactions will trigger with no explanation. Compare that to HS and the way they use language, animation, and graphic design to make sure the player understands the current card and all resulting effects. There's a card that supposed to damage a unit by 5 and if the row is on fire, damage all units by 5. So far, this card has done none of these effects for me. Is that a bug?! Numerous other weirdness such as Gascon not strengthening himself every time a unit has moved or Isbel not counting up the amount of damage done in the round. And yet, it is still quite impossible to lose a game! Other row, opposite row, enemy row, opponent row, all these phrases are interachangeable and mean nothing and everything. You will slowly and painfully realize that it's not what the card tells you but what it does in practice. So be prepared for a lot of wasted plays and tons of repetition. The only positives here are story and presentation. Narrative design is top notch as with all CDPR games and the presentation is pretty and fairy-tale'ish with a hint of "choose your own adventure". Voice acting and audio design is excellent. The camera's motion is also far from smooth when Meve is traversing the map. There's a constant visible lag and jerkiness to it that is quite uncomfortable for the eyes. The original creator of Gwent is gone and it shows. I can't recommend this game at full price. It tried so hard to be Hearthstone, failed, and ended up losing sight of Gwent.

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Posted on: November 29, 2018

SlaitRED

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Would have been 5 stars if...

this game was more difficult, but developers are already preparing a patch adressing this issue. I find the story and narration the very alluring, recommending it to anyone who liked Witcher series. In general it is another solid product from CDP RED.

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Posted on: December 7, 2018

JimaaaH

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Jeux: 23 Avis: 1

Great game but runs out of pace

Thronebreaker is a great game. It has a great story, great graphics and a large compaign. Here are the for and against in my opinion; For: -Lovely graphics -Long Compaign -A different take on gwent, including puzzles and stories -Story is great as you'd expect from this dev Against: -The game is so easy, even on the hardest mode. If they managed to double the difficulty, you'd get so many more hours or play. -The standard battles get rather boring when you're half way through the game. Because of the diffuculty, you don't really need to concentrate on building a proper deck. -When big battles happen, the AI tends to lag for me, but is fine on my turn. Perhaps the AIs calcs is slowing it down. I would recommend this game to anyone who likes strategy and the Witcher world. Just don't expect to be too challanged.

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