I didn't like my experience with this game,. The story, the lore part, is indeed exceptional. But for me, it was the only bit worth playing this game. The mechanics were lousy, to put it mildly. I'll go through some of them that I may remember while writing this: Pros: - The story; - There’s replayability value if you’re patient enough. - I liked the crafting system. Both the idea and how it is applied. Cons: - Lack of weapons and armors. The entire game has only three armors and like four or five swords. There are more swords, but only four or five worth a nickel. Since there are two types of swords, it’s like five swords divided by two. And that's pretty much it; - The auxiliary weapons are worthless in Witcher 1, since your character can only do his moves, the witcher’s moves, with swords. I don’t know with the devs have put these weapons in the game; - The loot system is, for lack of better words, sad. You have to manually pick all the stuff that you want. Since it takes the same one to three seconds as the storage to appear the box that allows you to grab stuff, you can see that a good chunk of the game is just waiting these loading times, which are painfully frequent; - In the same manner, the game has two modes for the character to be in: normal mode and fighting mode. You can only interact with people, enter sub-location, or loot or do anything but fighting in normal mode. Problem is, Sometimes it takes a good amount of time waiting for the game to finalize the fighting mode. And that only if there isn’t a hiding enemy or an enemy that you simply don’t feel like fighting, and just want to go on with the story. It’s a patience test since it happens so damn frequently. There's more stuff I wrote, but unfortonetely, there's a letter limit for reviews here. Maybe there’s more good or bad things that I didn’t remember while writing this text. But if I knew how this would pass, I certainly wouldn’t have played this game.
