Still great in 2025 and worth playing or replaying, even though it has some issues and outdated designs.
Game shouldn't be released in this state when it comes to bugs. But there are bigger problems, marketing was at best misleading, at worst you can even easily make a case about false advertising. Lifepaths don't matter, there's no features developers talked about in interviews, open world is shallow, driving is horrible, main story is too short and character development is inconsistent in places, there's a disconnection between main story being super time sensitivie and having a bunch of side quests in the world that you're supposed to do. There's only really one quests with multiple endings and consequences based on your decisions. Many perks are broken. Feels like a step back from Witcher 3, in other areas it's the same but that's not good enough for a game of this caliber 5 years later. Still, visuals and music are great, the story got me interested and I couldn't stop playing at times wanting to find out what will happen next, gameplay can be fun with different playstyles. But there's no real reason to replay it, you can do all endings in one playthrough. It's probably worth to try out a year from now once it's patched, maybe has some DLCs and costs half the price or less but don't have huge expectations.
