巫师2：国王刺客加强版

The Witcher 2 has quickly become my favorite game. The combat is intense, the graphics are beautiful, and the storyline stuck with me months after I finished. I keep finding myself coming back to this game, I loved every moment I spent with it. The story is so carefully crafted that one can almost sense a microhistory of the town and its people, (Flotsam, Verden, and Loc Muinne). I loved this game, and hope you give it the same chance! For those unfamiliar with the series: this is not the type of game where you customize your character, like The Elder Scrolls. This is based on a series of fantasy books, and the developers do a good job of sticking to the canon. If you're not into deep storylines and lots of cutscenes with pre-developed characters, this probably isn't for you.

It took me two years to play this, and now that I have - I wish I'd played it sooner. This game has some of the most ornate quests I've ever seen, and one in particular, Secrets of Loc Muinne, I was just mighty impressed with. This isn't a game made to waste some time on, it's an entertainment experience of the highest quality and worthy of anyone's time.

The Witcher 2 it's not an easy game to learn, it's not an easy game to get into, heck it's not even an easy game to play. The Witcher 2 has a complex but simple story telling it to you from a prologue while our main protagonist is sitting down on a prision table beign questioned about a situation that starts unwrapping itself as you play. The Witcher 2 it's not the kind of game that breaks the boundaries of gameplay, it's its own unique and special bowl of surprises mixed in a perfectly crafted fashion in order for you to uncover and discover the true shining of the pulp that this game has to offer.

It has it's flaws, still the most immersive RPG so far.

I have played Witcher 1 right about when it came out - for all it's flaws, i enjoyed it a lot. After a while, i switched to consoles - i didn't own a gaming PC and since Witcher 2 never came out on PS3/4, i missed out on it. Then Witcher 3 came out and i fell in love, basically doing a 100% completion in one sitting. Even if some things in Witcher 3 could be better, I find Witcher 3 the game of the decade. So why am i writing about W3 in a W2 review? Because this review is focused on how it feels to sit down to W2 having played W3 (and W1) first. :::::: Here is the main issue: W3 was an upgrade on absolutely everything. Every. Single. Thing. When i started out with it, it was my understanding that while it was obviously an inferior game in a technical sense (graphics, mechanics, gui etc.), it stood it's ground with the story, the immersion and lore. It doesnt, not by a long shot. I was actually surprised on how poorly delivered parts of the story were. The story itself is good/great, but for me the deliverance took away a lot from the enjoyment. The scenes start/end abruptly, the characters act unnaturally, there are a lot of tiny cliches, basically while the overarching storyline is great, the bits connecting it are mediocre. Also, although the main characters are beautifully fleshed out, they contrast strongly with everyone else being very one dimentional. Additionally, I was spoiled by the abundance of fleshed out side-content in W3 - W2 is mainly focused on the main story (though it's not necessarily a flaw i guess). The combat is poor and the gui is very unintuitive. The graphics are still beautiful and the animations are what you'd expect for the time. ::::::: Don't get me wrong, the game is still great and - by all means - play it! As a point of referrence: it's better than every entry in the Dragon Age series. Just don't be disappointed by how far from W3 it is. And - if you have the chance - play W2 before W3.