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The Witcher: Enhanced Edition nutshell review
14 years ago
☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢ CAUTION: FALLOUT ZONE ☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢☢
A very rich and gritty world, involving gameplay and character-defining moral choices combined with tactical combat and complete badassery. It moves a bit slow, especially at first, but thoroughness pays off in the end with the greatest selection of blades, spells, potions and upgrades, and the more involving character dialogues and story segments. The ending was very intense and satisfying, and it sets a very high bar for the sequel, which I'm on to play next.
Total playthrough time: 60+ hours.
Worth a second and third playthrough even, making different choices throughout the game to see how things play out down another path, so relatively high replay value, though the slow start and repetitiveness of some of the fetch quests would make it rather dull to play through immediately after finishing it the first time.
Recommended specs and combat tactics:
Invest minimally in intelligence, but enough to unlock all gathering/flaying/alchemy related talents (skip bombs--they're useless).
Invest minimally in Aard, just enough to grant some stun capability (you'll need it in chapter 1)
Invest in Endurance levels, and heavily in Witcher Group Combat Styles (both Silver and Steel), as at high levels it's the most versatile combat style, and also far and above the most badass (especially Group Silver). Unlock all of the combat style levels (tiers) as soon as you can, and max out group style. Make investments in Strength, Dexterity and Endurance that benefit the Group Style, or that benefit all combat styles.
Spend extra points making moderate to high investments in Strong Style/Strength and the Igni sign. Make smaller to minimal investments in the Fast Style, since most opponents its useful on are dealt with easily in groups with Group Style. You'll still resort to it occasionally, but not often enough to justify a big beef. Ignore all signs except Igni and Aard... inflicting opponents with fear and such doesn't help you kill them any faster!
Total playthrough time: 60+ hours.
Worth a second and third playthrough even, making different choices throughout the game to see how things play out down another path, so relatively high replay value, though the slow start and repetitiveness of some of the fetch quests would make it rather dull to play through immediately after finishing it the first time.
Recommended specs and combat tactics:
Invest minimally in intelligence, but enough to unlock all gathering/flaying/alchemy related talents (skip bombs--they're useless).
Invest minimally in Aard, just enough to grant some stun capability (you'll need it in chapter 1)
Invest in Endurance levels, and heavily in Witcher Group Combat Styles (both Silver and Steel), as at high levels it's the most versatile combat style, and also far and above the most badass (especially Group Silver). Unlock all of the combat style levels (tiers) as soon as you can, and max out group style. Make investments in Strength, Dexterity and Endurance that benefit the Group Style, or that benefit all combat styles.
Spend extra points making moderate to high investments in Strong Style/Strength and the Igni sign. Make smaller to minimal investments in the Fast Style, since most opponents its useful on are dealt with easily in groups with Group Style. You'll still resort to it occasionally, but not often enough to justify a big beef. Ignore all signs except Igni and Aard... inflicting opponents with fear and such doesn't help you kill them any faster!
It so far seems to have all of the irritating pitfalls of a shoddy console port... except it's a PC exclusive. WTF were they thinking!? D:
I can't even seem to figure out the controls, and there's no key binding menu, so I guess I'm SOL. The mouse behaves awkwardly and your character is really difficult to control. The sound is super broken and buggy, the dialogues are impossible to hear, and the tips that pop up explaining the controls and stuff to you are impossible to read, and vanish after a second, with no way to bring them back or review them.
I gave up after about 10 minutes... maybe come back to it when I'm less irritated, maybe not... going to go play Dirt 3. :|