My short review after being frustrated already early in the game. Many "riddles" seem to include the search for the interactive pixel and if you do not click that spot exactly it will not react whle not giving any feedback toward you if your estimate where to interact is right. It started already with the postbox where i did exactly know the spot of the keylock but i clicked minutes around to find the pixel that moved the cover. This is not fun - this is tedious and frustrating! I did not play for so much longer as i am already fed up - its probably a neat idea behind the game that lacks a profound execution!
Witcher 3 is a great narrative RPG with excellent graphics and sound. The UI is that little console game awkward. Bigest struggle i have is with the combat bcs i can not fight the style i like but the style Geralt does which is simply not what i would lean into. I pretty much suffer through very combat in the hope the good parts of the game erward me enough for it so i can keep my motivation up to play, I own this game since years and have not been able yet to play more than 8 to 10 hours into it b4 i am so put off that i stop altogether. Which is a shame but pretty much the same situation i encounter with KCD - two of the best RPGs wehre the combat puts me off sp much i dont play them.
I see how this game is a great RPG but the controls are nothing but frustrating and the combat is utter crap. You get hints you have to read while under immediate threat of enemies that do not pause the game as you find out when you subsequently die. Like in The Witcher this game does not entertain me with great combat (like an Elden Ring i.e.) but makes me suffer through with boring, chaotic, almost uncontrollable fights with clumsy and monotone combat mechanics. I still want give it 5 Stars for the RPG part but for me movement controls are at best 3 stars and combat is 1 star. Sadly it seems they will not have this changed in KCD2.
I am still at the beginning and i already hate the controls (playing via X-Box Controller for PC). I died bcs i could not manage to face my attackers - it simply did not turn... The Story could be nice, i am to upset to play further and the game may well be buried under my backlog mountain... A story as short as it is sad!
I bought this game on sale, it was the graphics and the video that lured me in - i am not in plattform games in general. I have to say it - sometimes for my lack of eperience i did not understand what to do or missed triggerpoints i thought where background graphics and i took a walkthough video for help these times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvs9VHX7WhU What i found was a beautyful experience that shows the complexitiy and elegance of simplicity in the best way possible. The experience is like a dream carried by colours and sound you want to not to end but dive deeper into fully indulging it. I am a dreamer it seems - so this game was the right choice to buy!
I tried 3 runs of the game so far, completed one losing the war and deleting two incomplete games. Part of it is that my english seems at times to diverge from the games english and my choices do not seem to be what i thought i read. Part of it is that the abstraction goes to far in certain areas like budget decisions where i.e. you have a massive increase in your overall budget like almost doubling it yet this does not materialize anywhere. A general increase in the overall budget would mean that with no changes you either have surplus money or each ministry participates percentage wise and can invest that money to improve the conoditions in their respective field. None of it happens unless you manualy increase the budget yet that will likely end you in a deficit that likely is disasterous for your economy. Part of it is that some economical dependencies do not make any sense like conscription boosting your economy. Part of it is the military is ultra abstract and the lost war was told to me in 4 reports with no stats or visuals etc. I figured i lost the war for the enemy seemed to use gas attacks which my army was obviously not prepared for but that was it. Many things are kept to broad and vague and the conversation choices never give a hint for possible folllow ups / subchoices. The game stil is entertaining if you like to read and play the game like a text adventure having your imagination fill the shortcomings of the presentation.
I had this game back in the DOS Era when games were well packed and documented as their boxes contained Manuals, Maps, Charts, References of rather good qualiy and often these types of game included more historical background than the common school would ever teach you. This game came with the Book of the same name in EGA graphic but a VGA Upgade Disc was available i also purchased. The problem i encountered was that 512kb DOS Ram were NOT enough to run the game at a time you had DOS3.3 and for non english compuers you needed a Keyboard Driver among the other TSRs you would load. In my Memory the VGA Game needs cloe to 600KB to run flawless and that was only achieveable on english language computers that could run the Keyboard via Bios and neede no Driver. Thus i was never able to play it. Nice that it is now on GOG enabling me to finally exxperience the game! I wonder if this is the VGA Version of it bcs it is hard to say. The graphics are sure simplsitic today but were top notch at the time of the original release and the gameplay complex as this was the sweetspot between Pilots still have to have supreme flying skills and electronics become mandatory so th gameplay is enjoyably diverse. If you can stand early 90s graphics and like the era it sure is a nice dive into sim gaming, computer and world history paired with a sense of adventure.
Its nothing like the real Gwent but a generic CCG with a Witcher theme and control that suck. Mouse+KB fight with Controllers for input supremacy making it often uncontrollable and you have to remove your Contollers manually (detach) to have it work ok. The "Gwent" i not Gwent but a generic CCG with a Witcher Theme and that is sad bcs the game itself would have potential. I am very disapointed and was it not for a big sale discount i would give the game back feeling betrayed! There is no other way for me to evaluate this product...
I epxected a Gwent game and got a generic CCG with a Witcher theme and bad controls where Controllers and Mouse+KB override each other cancelling themself out at times. Totaly disapointed! The game itself would have potential if it was anything like the real Gwent!
Super disapointed, i only know Gwent from the Witcher and when the other Gwent Games (Thronebreaker and Rogue Mage) where on sale i decided to buy into it expecting somthing like the Gwent in The Witcher. Its nothing of it and the controls suck as Controllers fight with Mouse+KB overriding each other. The game is a generic CCG with a Witcher Theme that has nothing to go for it especially if you expect the experince from The Witcher but the theme. If i was looking for a generic bread and butter CCG i would not go for Gwent in the first place!
