This is the only game I still play that was released 20 years ago. This is one of the few games I go to the trouble of installing wine on Linux just to make sure I can play it. If that's not an endorsement enough, I don't know what is.
I've only once before been sad, truly sad, after completing a game. The first time was with The Witcher 3. And now again with Blood and Wine. I felt really sad when Geralt was having a conversation with Emil and he was saying that he needed to take a break from witchering and adventuring and he looked straight into the camera, at me, the gamer. He wasn't taking his farewall with Emil, he was rather telling me "This is the end of my story, and I need to go now". And then we had the perfect ending scene -- Triss (I picked Triss as my love interest) reclining and drinking wine leisurely with Geralt standing by. It felt like the end of a saga. And what an ending! Toussaint is so beautiful, the colors so vivid, nature so peaceful, so even when you come across a monster to kill, and there are plenty of them, you don't feel like in the main story when everything breathes despair, destruction, and death; instead you're quick to dispose of the monster as it doesn't belong in this tranquility, in this paradise of a place. And what about the tournament! Oh man, I loved that mission. Well, I loved all of them, and I wish the Witcher had the ability to replay missions you like after completing the game, so I can do this one over and over. What a game! And what a spectacular way to finish the trilogy. Even though I had a feeling that in that last conversation between Geralt and Emil, Geralt hinted at further adventures. I hope I'm right and in a few years we have another Witcher. But I would also understand and respect the developers' decision to end the series now with dignity rather than turn it into a "franchise" and milk it for as long as possible. Sometimes it takes more courage to stop than it does to continue. And I trust CDPR to make the right decision. 30 years from now, your grandkids will ask you "What was it like playing the Witcher?" and you won't have an excuse if you replied "I did not." Go play it now!
