Ведьмак 2: Убийцы королей

this game represents the ground on which the witcher 3 will be made, so much of it is resembling its mechanics and gameplay designs as well as the narrative strucure. it greatly reinvents its prequel's game design in every almost every way though not always in a better way, for as much jank you can find in some aspects in the first game this one corrects them wether it be in combat, stealth, customization, dialogue and cutscenes. it also fumbles on other aspects like alchemy and the potion system, you can't eat food anymore for some reason, you can't drink potions whenever and whenever, and i also noticed that while the combat is improved it's also stiff and janky and suffers from a bad input lag. I can't quite deduce wether this game's story is better than the first because although this one has a more intriguing sequential story with lore revelations that keep you on your feet, the first game i think had a better flow to it from chapter to chapter, the characters you meet are more organically explored and developed whereas this one seem to do a lot of skipping in that regard. in any case it remains a solid entry and compared to the jump from this one to the sequel I think its biggest strength is in how reinventing it is of the first game's formula.

Potions are mostly useless and you can only drink them durning meditation. Crafting is also novel and useless. You spend all your orens on diagrams and materials only to find much better gear in some damp cave five minutes later. The only good thing about this game is the story. Wich is much shorter and linear than the first game's. The big choice of either side makes no significant impact on the third game. Much like how the first game's choices made no impact on this game's story.

I am playing the Witcher 2 after playing the Witcher 3 and its DLC. I love the connects to the third game and the story this one tells. However, I have had a few crashes and some of the game play can be clunky. Still work a buy if it is on sale.

Очень интересный сюжет, завораживающая музыка от которой идут мурашки по коже(особенно нравится тема Лок Муинне), атмосферная графика как у настоящей фентези игры, очень жаль что в 3 части нет иорвета

Pros: Decent voice acting, nicely detailed world, good characters, interesting story. Cons: Geralt moves stiffly and extremely slowly which makes it very hard to exploit enemy weaknesses. Countless invisible walls which makes the forest feel like a hard to navigate maze. (Let's play "spot the opening that does not have an invisible wall".) Terrible stealth sections with enemies who fluctuate randomly between complete blindness and eagle-eye vision. Trial-and-error based boss fights with little feedback and no checkpoints. Wonky enemy AI that frequently gets stuck on things. I really want to like this game, but I can't. Only get this if you have a high tolerance for frustration.