Let's talk about the bad things since there isn't much to say: -bugs/crashes. Quite a few sadly, nothing gamebreaking tho -it's way to easy to beat -this might be a minor thing, but I for one wanted to get into the gwent multi-player game, but Thronebreaker doesn't make it easy.While the game mechanics are the same, the cards have completely different text. So even if now i know every card in TB, I have to relearn every single card text from scratch Now the good: -I laugh when I see the "female protagonist" label on steam, most of the times these are just games that try to appeal to the mostly male gamers playing, so the characters are usually bad, but here all the characters and especially Queen Meeve are, lets just say, exceptional. Some of the best ever written -the voice acting is phenomenal, and remember that the game has no cutscenes etc, you're looking at pictures for the most part so to have this amount of quality va was a shock, a pleasant one -the art is beautiful, but even better is the in-game(when you're playing the cards) graphics, I played a lot of card games and this is by far the best I've seen in terms of animation, interface and I would say even atmosphere- which is strange to say in a card game -music is great tho a bit more tame then in the witcher -Gameplay: it's superb. Forget that little minigame you were playing in the witcher 3,this is truly a masterpiece card game, so much fun to create decks that just obliterate everything or have insane combos.Other then the card game you'll be playing a top down, exploration game and of course a "choose your own adventure" type of campaign, where you make decision that will affect the story/characters and the cards you can have in your deck -fun-factor:I've gushed enough about it already, needles to say it's a ton of fun and make no mistake, in true witcher fashion it's highly repayable as well,with different endings etc. Overall I say It's a must buy for this price. Thank you once again CDPR.
Let's start with the good: -games looks nice (both graphics and art style) -narrator is amazing -music is good -and the idea to have you trying to find the right choices to lead you to your ultimate destiny by failing again and again is near genius Now the bad: -the game crashed a couple of times and also has stutters from time to time -loading screens are very long -you can't skip 90% of the dialogue even if you heard it 100 times before -gameplay is extremely repetitive, simple and button-mashy...it literally takes no skill after you have all the gems and a few talents, I guess it's made to be fast so you can skip most of it, but that's just bad design IMO -the story feels contrived and has a lot of dodgy moments like: you fight 50 enemies to get to the end of the lvl and the story just ends because you apparently got ambushed by 20 The really bad: -I was infuriated to find that after you discover all the "truths" aka important facts about the items/people in the story the game LITERALLY HOLDS YOUR HAND AND PUSHES YOU TO THE RIGHT ENDING almost by force. you can still make choices but you know they're wrong so why bother? Whats the point of having a game that is based on failing if it just throws the right answer in your face after just a few mistakes (and those mistakes need to be made in order to progress in the first place). for me that was insulting and made me feel like I wasted my money on this...because it just took a dump on the core concept of the game: Getting better and more knowledgeable by failing. I give it 3 stars even if it deserves 2, because it's cheap for what it offers and it does have a lot of potential if they manage to polish the game more and actually make the story/story pieces less contrived and of course, if they actually let the player fail next time and find the pieces of the puzzle on his own rather then hand holding.
