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I love The Witcher 3, and this has the potential to be a great game but there were too many occasions where it was unbelievably frustrating. The tutorial is really basic, eg I had to Google how to use mutations. On several occasions I couldn't work out where I had to go. The combat is generally pretty good, but difficult. I don't like the way you have to sit down to take a potion and you can't top up a potion that you've already taken. It means there were a lot of occasions where I had to reload so I could prep before a fight. I guess it's supposed to be a role playing thing but it didn't work for me. I didn't like the boss fights at all for a combination of reasons but especially because of the potion thing I mentioned before. Later on, even on easy difficulty level I found them tough, and more annoying than actually challenging my skill. And I've played all the Souls games so I'm ok with a challenge! The story is reasonably interesting, but I had a hard time remembering which character was which. Later on it's a real political jumble of not very distinctive people and who they fight for. Overall it's worth the money, and I got a good amount of fun from the game, but it's not a patch on Witcher 3.

In principal, Witcher 2 is a great RPG. The stroytelling is much better than it was in its predecessor where the main quest virtually disapperead for 3 acts. The controlls are different but ultimately equally bad in my opinion but this doesn't really matter once you're immersed in the compelling narrative. However, the german version of the game reproducably crashes whenever there are umlauts (ä,ö,ü) displayed during cutscenes. Only a fix made by the community helps, not by preventing the crashes but by replacing the umlauts troughout the whole game. For a fully patched "Enhanced Edition", this is just inexcusable, therefore I substract 3 stars.

Came back to Witcher 2 after six yeas and the story is still amazing. Every character has some meaning, I'm so happy to bring my memories back

Loved the first game but this one was just a pain to play. I just felt like I was fighting the game mechanics not the monsters.

Witcher 2 isn't bad. It has great "moments". But I'm a little suprised at how gushing all the reviews are. Arguably the first Witcher, dispite it's many flaws, was a better game. Witcher 2 has too many poor design decisions and unbalanced difficulty and gameplay issues to be a great game. Your character seems on the verge or death or invincible in most battles depending on the chapter and what upgrades you select. I don't like the new potion mechanism or the character upgrade UI. I don't care for the changes to the way books and lore are used. Level design is ok, but too often becomes a confusing series of mazes that you have to find your way through to reach the next point in a quest. As a fan of the first game, I wanted to love this game, but I have a hard time entirely endorsing it.