-Note, I probably have around 40 hours into this at the time of review This game is incredible, it delivers on everything I could have hoped for, great writing, brilliant side quests, a lush open world, fun combat system and an awesome character driven story. This is the first Witcher game I have ever played, and all its made me want to do is finish this one and then buy the rest. The Story is incredible and has moral choice aspects that do more than just give you a different ending, it affects who lives, who dies and what is going to happen next, and they aren't black and white either, and you often don't know how your choices will affect the story. I killed off two central characters to the plot by turning a demon tree into a horse two hours earlier. It's brilliant. The writing and quest design is where I think is where the real strength of the Witcher 3 is. Each side quest feels like an adventure and has its own small self contained story and characters. Everything is incredibly well thought out and all the mechanics are almost all well designed, and the execution is often times near prefect. Now the game isn't perfect, animations can get a bit odd, the horse controls can occasionally be finicky, occasionally the combat feels overwhelming, and the game doesn't always look quite as good as you may sometimes hope, but these are really just nitpicks. If you like good fantasy novels, Western RPG's or just want to be immersed in a beautiful open world, just Buy it, go, now, Buy.... JUST DO IT.
