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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 60.7 hrs on record (41.7 hrs at review time)
Posted: 21 Jul, 2014 @ 11:43pm

Ok, so I finally played The Witcher to completion after buying it a while ago… in a steam sale. When I started I wasn’t a fan of the combat system or the level of complexity of getting quests done, I felt lost, confused, and didn’t play for about a year. But seeing as I had both The Witcher and The Witcher 2, plus The Witcher 3 is one the way and I was interested (thanks trailers), I decided to go back recently to play and beat it, because you know, reasons.

When I started, I was not a fan, all the issues where still here, but this time I powered through them, working through the first act, learning as I went and I grew to like the flaws and difficulty, the complexity.
Graphics don’t make a game for me, so the somewhat dated look didn’t really bother me, I can remember when LOZ: Ocarina of Time looked cutting edge. That being said, I have always preferred gameplay and story.
The conversations seemed a bit off from time to time, translation errors or just not lining up in the right way, conversations felt a bit off from time to time. However, as I have stated, I grew to like the game and it went from powering my way through to actually wanting to see what happened… I blame the story, the choices (real choices), and the interesting characters.
The gameplay, while it never felt like a 100% solid for me, it added a bit of charm and, once I understood everything, showed that they really did think through the system. I liked the combat and inventory system was meh. All in all, it felt like it had a lopsides fair balance, think something through and prepare and you would be ok... in theory.
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