Hi. I don't often write reviews, but since so many are saying the game is amazing I thought I'd add a note of warning. Despite my enduring love for the Witcher series (I will forgive a lot just because of Triss) I ended up requesting a refund after only 20 minutes. My first impressions of the game, backed up by reading others' reviews that weren't by fanboys and/or dick jokes, told me that the well-publicised bugs are irrelevant, it's the game that is the problem. In a very sad 20 minutes I realised the following: 1. You can't change the obnoxious nature of your character, just what colour they are and what combination of breasts and genitalia they have. 2, This is no RPG, as you have no effective choices to make - you are reading a script, not acting a role. The dialogue countdown timer (a la witcher 3) is now a choice between saying what your moronic character is scripted to say or...silence. 3. Driving is a joke, even with the horrific motion blur turned off it's like steering a bison on an ice rink. 4. There is no context to what you are doing, no exposition of why, and you have no idea who these different people are that you are forced to deal with. 5. You can't remap movement keys. Yes, I know I haven't finished the prologue. I don't care. If it can't get the opening sequence right, and the basics are so poor, what hope is there for the rest? Initially, I thought I would just leave the game in my library until patches sorted both the bugs and gameplay out, but realised that would just be rewarding those who delivered perhaps the most crushing disappointment in gaming since Daikatana, which I think is still worse than ME:Andromeda. Both CDPR and the appalling "games journalists" who gave this game perfect scores pre-release need to be sent a very clear message of how let down some of us feel. I'm quite pleased to be a very small part of that message.
