I really do love cyberpunk. I do love good soundtracks and I do love well made pixel graphics. Also I love a good, interesting and unique story and Katana Zero delivers all of these things perfectly. BUT and it really hurts me to say that, the gameplay itself is just not good. First of all, it is a bit too monotonous, which it not such a big problem in itself. Well and then there is the AI in combination with the game design, which unfortunately is really bad: the difficulty is jumping really fast from "super easy" to "almost impossible". And the AI does only make it worse: sometimes it reacts even bevore the door is open and kills you, sometimes it just waits until you kill them, sometimes it magically alives one hit kill hits and sometimes it just randomely moves in ways it hasn't done in the previous >10 tries before. Really I want to like it so hard, as the story is exactely my cup of tea but the AI in combination with the game-design just infuriates me so strong, that I cant enjoy the other parts of the game. If you can life with the AI and game-design mistakes, the game is great, if you can't like me, you should better get an other game.
To sum it up: Witcher 3 GOTY is brilliant. From the 2017 still really good graphics, over the fantastic soundtrack to the story and characters, almost everything is really, really good. I tried to think about a fantasy RPG which I have played and which has the same quality level and I couldn’t remember any… I thought about Dragon Age 1 or maybe Pillars of Eternity but all in all I still liked Witcher 3 better. Why? Well that’s a pretty long story so I try to make it short. Witcher 3 really hits the feeling of the books almost perfectly. If you read the books, you really goanna like this: there are many characters from the books, with their characteristics hit really good and even their looks are close to what you would imagine after reading the books. The character-writing it is also really good: most of the relevant ones are complex enough to sympathizes with them or hate them. Even the side-characters are complex enough and have their own small story-lines, which make almost every quest interesting. The story of the main game is still good but has some pacing problems and some not so gripping moments. BUT: there are some really heavy decisions to make, which made me think about my answer and its consequences twice! The really long end quest hit me emotionally and that’s what even Dark Souls or Skyrim never managed. Gameplay is fun, not as complex as Dark Souls but much better than Skyrim. Sometimes there are still small bugs and balancing problems but all in all it’s still really good playable. The DLCs on the other hand still manage to improve the quality of the really good main game. Much better pacing, really interesting characters which make you curious in the moment you meet them and a again well written plot with twists, turns and heavy consequences. To say the DLCs would be perfect wouldn’t be 100% accurate, but they come really close. The soundtrack than finishes the product: it matches the situations good to perfect and is very diverse. All in all you should definitively buy Witcher 3 GOTY. It’s 100% worth it (even the full price of 50€)!
