It took me about eight years of chipping away at this game to finish it because I found the gameplay to be almost painful to endure. The game has a lot of busywork quests, padding in the form of very frequent long walks between quest areas, and a rhythm based combat system that while certainly unique was not fun or engaging to me. Your mileage may vary. The narrative is pretty compelling and does force the player into a few significant moral decisions. I do think it is worth playing for the narrative, but I would suggest playing on the lowest difficulty to minimize frustration. While I was not actively playing games back in 2007, I think this game is a bit ugly graphically even for that year. Especially character models. Some environments look pretty though. Granted, I may not have a full appreciation for how open environmental levels in RPGs were at the time as I'm mostly comparing to games like Halo 3 and Half-Life 2 as a comparison which admittedly might not be fair. The game does also have some stability issues as I had it crash on me many times over the course of my full playthrough across multiple PC builds. If you're a big Witcher fan you'll probably enjoy playing for the narrative, but I honestly can't recommend it unless you really want to experience the beginning of The Witcher in video game form.
