I really enjoyed playing this game... but now I am only midway in and I am bored with it. It is too long and it is just more of the same but just more difficult. I guess a lot of people like that though and I get you can't please everybody to the same extend... I have 25 hours in the game (I admit I am a slow gamer) and now I want it to be finished and move on to another game. I will totally admit that is just the way I like to play games, and since I really enjoyed the gameplay up till now I will still give this game a good score, just take one star off for the ridiculous length.
Pros: - beautiful art - nice story - some puzzles are ok enough cons: - puzzels are all samy samy and not very fun nor interesting - often a tedious pixel hunt going back and forth and triple check areas as some items appear later in the game after you have already checked that area - some of those pixel hunt puzzles are so far fetched and take too long to solve so I just looked up cheats for those as it became boring All in all I am glad I got it on hyper sale.
As a beginner gamer it did take a little getting used to the old style game mechanics... but after setting the game to "click for walk setting" it got a lot easier to play and I immediately really loved the game. I have all three games and really wanted to play this one first and I do not regret pushing through these first impressions because I really enjoy the game now and can't wait for Witcher 2 and 3! I even started reading the books!