CD Projekt Red have shown how to make a Sequel. The witcher was a decent game, great story, gameplay was meh, The Witcher 2 was a good game, great story, gameplay was decent. The Witcher 3 is a fantastic game, amazing story and amazing gameplay. CD PRojekt Red are constantly improving their games and the Witcher is one of the best games I have played in years, the last time I had as much fun in a game was the release of Assassin's Creed 2 when Ubisoft showed that they knew how to make a Sequel (and then it all went to shit when the promptly forgot). Now that I have the praise for the company out of the way onto the meat of the game. The saying, 'You get out what you put in' is so fitting, you want to just play the story on the easiest difficulty fine, it'll force you to diverge a little to level but otherwise it's a decent game, but where it really shines is when you explore and talk to people all these interesting stories and ways to do stuff, roleplaying is fun and some of the choices are grey or just difficult others shape who you are and I even had a choice form the tutorial area come back to haunt me many hours later. This also stretches to combat, explore and get alchemy ingredients and you're going to have fun from bombs, to oils, to decoctions and potions and some of the craftable armour is just so nice but it's all satisfying and that's what the strength of the game is, I feel satisfied playing it, even just dicking around the map on no particular quest is fun and I feel like nothing is wasted. Complaints, this is the interesting bit because there's very little I could complain about, mostly involving a few glitches with npc's I'm meant to follow, particularly triss and some floating npc's which shouldn't be where they are. Other than that aiming to loot stuff behind things can be a pain and I found myself stuck on a few objects. Going into combat caused me to die a few times as I was jumping between ledges as it'd happen at the last second and instead of jumping I'd dodge off a ledge and horses can be a slight pain to control but other than that it's all put together pretty well.
