Do you know that feeling when you like a good B movie, with no much money in it, but which can still be cool and immersive, and then, there's an AAA hollywoodian sequel which is more spectacular but just sucks ? So welcome to TW2... the first game came a bit of nowhere, it wasn't jawbreaking, but it was fun, immersive, with a lot to do, you could just walk and enjoy the NPC's behavior... TW2 is no fun at all... the consolization was a massacre, not because it was "consolized", I don't care when it's well done, as it was with the Elder Scrolls or the Fallout series, with their deep but still smooth gameplay... but TW2 feels like a bad 90's game, no shortcuts, awful menus where you spend to much time doing too much little... not only the game is awfully unergonomic, but even the fighting system is outdated... CD Red wanted to do an action game, wich doesn't stand with 201x's action game's standards, when you come from games such as the Batman Arkham series, which also mix a lot of stuff, TW2 looks like a bad joke... Geralt weights a ton, simply walking around is a pain... When the first game was immersive, you could feel the thrill of anticipation as you prepared yourself for an exploration, in TW2, preparation is useless, and the most important battles come out of nowhere, so you haven't the time to prepare, and most time, you'll simply die just like that, you can't anticipate a thing... I just can't figure where the hype around this game came from, it's not a good game, at all, not only as a "the witcher" game, but as a game, bad gameplay, way too linear, bad balance of difficulty, as a game TW2 just sucks in every area, aside graphics (still great in this aspect) and story. Oh, and where's the link with the first game ? Where's Shani ? They didn't even took a line of dialog to invent an excuse for her being totally missing from the game's script... finally, using a TW1 gamesave is useless... I just can't figure how some people can give more than 2 stars to that thing...
