I was into this game solely for the world of Witcher. This game consists of two parts: - An adventure and story part - And a Gwent CCG part. The first part is great: nice drawings, lots of mini story elements where you can make choices, which have effects later on on the story and events. Also, the main story looks interesting so far. The second part, however, is far from perfect. Generally, I love card games, which core element is deck building, but the deck building in this game is VERY limited. You have limitation on the minimum number of cards of your deck, you have a maximum limitation on how many cards you can own from one specific card, you have limitations on special cards, you have a resource limit... and this means there are seemingly a lot of cards you can craft, but ultimately, you cannot. There is barely any new cards later on, so you basically play with the same deck from the beginning till the end of the chapter. At last, there are lots of "puzzles" in the game where you play with a specific deck, so there is some variety - actually, there are more of these matches then matches played with your very own deck, which I've found quite confusing in the beginning (like, there was barely any standard match after the tutorial for hours). All of this caused I had a lot of resources (money, wood and recruit), but I couldn't really spend it on anything useful. Nevertheless, the game itself as a whole is very addictive, and the story kept me playing on and on :)
It's still a great game, same fun as in the 90s. BUT, there are some bugs (like, the receptionist is behaving like a furniture), and later on on the game, there are very few new things and it tries to expand game time with huge amount of money and LOTS of cured patients as level goals.
I loved this game back in the days, and I still love it... for the 15+ minutes until it gets crashed over and over again :(
but not so great now, unfortunataley. I've played hundreds of hours with HoMM2 and 3, and loved it, but today it's kind of pain in the ass. The display is too small (I've used the HD mod), and the interface is not as user friendly as it should be nowadays. Also, I really have to calculate myself how much enemy unit will be killed by an attack? Nah, I don't have time for this :( So, if you've loved this game back in the days, you might just don't want to try and see it whether it's still good today, as you might get disappointed :(
