A fun game that gave me more of what I was missing really badly: more of the witcher universe. There's plenty of reviews describing the good sides of the game with which I entirely agree so I would like to focus and warn other players about one extremely poor side of the game: if you are among those unlucky few who are actually not few but many you are going to encounter "black screen" fairly often. Those black screens happen fairly often in place of cinematics. If you are lucky you will simply have the entire cinematic freeze with only the sound playing in the background so you will *only* miss on the awesome part of the game story experience if you are less lucky however the entire game won't be playable. The latter is particularly annoying because cinematics usually occur after big final battles and you will have to replay the entire battle which might take up to 30 minutes to do until you will finally avoid the black screen. What's strange is that Gwent itself, the game this stand-alone single-player experience is based on, doesnt have any of such issues. Further down the line you have various solutions suggested by tech support and other players, however neither me nor as I found out most other people didn't find a permanent solution, black screens on cinematics will still randomly appear no matter what you do. However the biggest letdown and the sole reason I'm writing a review focused on such subject is that CDPR evidently did not solve that issue in one year of the game's existence. That made worse by the fact that the multiplayer Gwent has no problem with black screen on cinematics and I normally came to expect better of the company than that. But even leaving aside my high expectations of CDPR I simply can't recommend or give more than 2 stars to a game that is broken for so many players for 1 year after its official release.
