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Great ARPG with a vast duo class system that allows you to try different play styles and characters. Story is straightforward with plenty of content, sides, large maps. A bit difficult getting into due to lack of tutorial but once you read up on guides and learn at a balanced pace, you'll grow to enjoy it. So be ready to die a lot, recreate, relearn, experiment skills and classes 'til you make it.

Graphically and musically relaxing. Every factor including story, music, gameplay were so thought out that it captivates each area of playthrough. It is a game that provides a challenge. But you get to listen to a good story and music along the way. Take the purchase and enjoy. This version is not available anymore, Definitive Edition only.

First and Foremost, this is a story driven game filled with role-playing actions and decisions, all played through GWENT. YES GWENT. NOT THE VERSION OF GWENT FROM THE WITCHER GAME BUT THE NEWEST VERSION OF GWENT BY CD PROJEKT RED. So if you know and enjoy GWENT, this game is definitely recommended. Whole game is puzzle oriented towards GWENT.

This is the side story of Meve, Queen of Rivia. Those that have knowledge of the Witcher series would know about the mention of Queen Meve and her accomplishments. You go through what happened to her, her kingdom, and how she got her titles. Of course like all Witcher games, there are decision makings to bring up multiple endings. Great art, great story, and enjoyable buy.

Childhood nastalgia

You don't have to wait any longer to fulfill your dreams of becoming a janitor when you can slip, slide, smack, and sweep your way through different gruesome platforms and levels that are filled with angled obstacles.

Whether you want to be a janitor that sweeps, blows, or wipes, you get your pick. You can choose the levels, replay the levels, and try beat your old time or the times of other players on the highscores while listening to a calming soundtrack.

This DLC provides one of the (three) stories in the new Story mode. If you like the original and understands the basic mechanics and go-to strategies of the base game, then this will give you a breather of enjoying a short story about a father who is looking for his missing daughter in time of war.

Instead of maintaining multiple characters, you are only playing one and creating the base and items as you progress (everything comes along for the sake of the story). If you enjoy stories with a twist or you are playing this for the new four achievements, this DLC is worth the time and $2.

It's basically GTA in the city of Hong Kong.

You play as Wei Shen, an undercover cop, who was tasked with infiltrating the Sun on Yee, one of the big triads in HK. Wei Shen recently returned to HK from the States and tasked with gaining access to the Sun on Yee, he returns to his old ties and his good friend Jackie who is a lackey of the Sun on Yee. You play both sides, completing missions from the triads and the cops. The main story will progress with Wei climbing the ladder in the Sun on Yee and each passing mission shows how he is maintaining the balance between his two identities. On the side, there are the many aspects of GTA such you can race, buy cars/clothes/customize, kill, and raise wanted levels ("level of heat" in this game). Unique features that differ from GTA is the karaoke and DLC clothing sets let you adapt the fighting style so if you equip Shaolin set, you fight like one.

Story is good, but a bit short. Would've liked if they had added more missions that went into the other gangs.
Excellent and funny AI dialogue; the best phrase is from Pork Bun guy : "A man who never eats pork bun is never a whole man"
Slow-motion shooting, kung-fu fighting, vaulting/parkour, wide range of Asian brand cars/bikes/clothing.
BONUS: if you understand Catonese, the game is even better and funnier because of the cursing and slangs, otherwise, there's a translation provided in the subtitles.

Overall, funny and well-made game. This version of the game isn't available anymore so get the Definitive.

The game is strategic oriented and heavily influenced by your management. One small decision or mishap may lead to an unfortunate outcome. The following is a quick summary of key details and what to expect since there isn't much of a tutorial to begin with and finishing a playthrough will take several tries, research, and studying the mechanics on your own.

You play as the civilians who are trapped in a city which is conflicted in time of war. You can choose a pre-set story with characters or create a customed story. Some characters have specific characterisitcs that will make survival easier. Each story begins in an abandoned place which contains rubble that needs to be cleared and loot piles and storages that need to be scavenged for materials. This place will be your civilians' home during the time of survival before help arrives at the end. In order to survive through each story, tough choices have to be made for your civilians. Time ticks as you progress through the day, whether you choose to rest your civilians or have them do jobs around the place such as building stations, crafting weapons, upgrading, cooking food, or participate in other activities around the home. Once day is over, night is when you choose to set out a civilian to go scavenge for materials from an accessible place in the city or stay at home to rest or stay guarded from night raids. Each place that is open to scavenge contains randomly generated loot and may contain civilians or armed combatants. Therefore, you have to make a choice to either raid, steal, trade or kill in order to help those at home survive. Each decision may have a consequence that may negatively impact the civilians at home.

You have to maintain the health of your civilians by balancing through starvation, depression, tiredness, and healing wounds. Each concluding day will have a changing effect on your civilians. This game will test your patience and decision making of whether to steal, kill, or help others in order to survive til the very end..either with everyone or just one left.

The game has multiple endings base on your choices, immersive, good combat system and character development. The two DLCs are as good as the base game in terms having well-written story and enough content that include lots of side quests, activities, and decisions that will trigger your emotions and you questioning your morals.

I recommend starting on the hardest difficulty, Death March, if you've played the previous Witcher games or if you've had experience with RPGs. The game would prove to be a challenge for the first 15-20 levels and it gets easier from there. If you like a decent challenge, I highly recommend it.

Overall, the game is NOICE 10/10.

It is the second of the trilogy, has a deeper and more explained story than the previous, has a better, but clunky combat system compared the first. You can import your save from the previous game and continue with the weapons and equipment from the first.

In this game, it has the same style as the first, with the story being broken into chapters and decisions impacting the future route of your path. Quests are the ONLY way to level up in this game, so do them. Things to do on the side is finding ingredients for alchemy, crafting materials for weapons and armor, three different skill trees to allocate your points you get from leveling, and getting mad at the combat system when the hits and blocks are completely random during group and boss fights. THE SIGN QUEN IS YOUR BEST FRIEND IN THIS GAME. USE IT. Overall, enjoyable for 30 hours and a cheap price during every sale.

For achievement hunters, you need two playthroughs to finish all; one on any difficulty and one on insane. The decisions that you choose in one playthrough should be the opposite of what you choose in the other in order to get the other achievement that is correlated. There are also hidden achievements that has to be researched if wanted to be unlocked.