The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine

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Universal acclaim- based on 3870 Ratings

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  1. zeux
    Dec 22, 2020
    7
    i want to know who thought that doing a fight with an enemy that that turns into a indestructable heat seeking missle that stun-locks and kills you when you get hit once in the beggining of the DLC? Oh and did I mension that you get "help" from a knight that can also die and restart the fight? Oh and his AI thinks he is fighting a drowner or something and just runs into the monster andi want to know who thought that doing a fight with an enemy that that turns into a indestructable heat seeking missle that stun-locks and kills you when you get hit once in the beggining of the DLC? Oh and did I mension that you get "help" from a knight that can also die and restart the fight? Oh and his AI thinks he is fighting a drowner or something and just runs into the monster and dies every minute. Oh i didn't mention that you take around 0.5% of his health in one hit and he instantly hits you back takeing 90% of your health? And this is just an example im currently a few hours in and i'm stuck on a enemy 5 levels below me that insta kills me for some reason?! Aside from that the DLC has been great but combat is kindo a big part of an RPG as well as ability to progress a quest that you "could have done" when you were 5 levels worse… Expand
  2. visiblelight7
    Jan 15, 2018
    6
    Having skipped the wild hunt because honestly after 20 hours I realized I wasn't enjoying the game although I gave it a fair shot... years later I was told the expansions were better and more direct to the point so I wanted to give it a try.

    My conclusion is that if you give a game extremely great graphics and pay attention to alot of details, then you can sell a game as game of the    Having skipped the wild hunt because honestly after 20 hours I realized I wasn't enjoying the game although I gave it a fair shot... years later I was told the expansions were better and more direct to the point so I wanted to give it a try.

    My conclusion is that if you give a game extremely great graphics and pay attention to alot of details, then you can sell a game as game of the year and people will buy it even if it's BORING and DULL.

    Yes, it's incredibly beautiful to look at and there's ALOT of attention to detail which is a masterpiece of achievement on it's own.... but it's still a boring game. Maybe if they had implemented some form of 1st person view, I would be more immersed or enjoyed it personally... but it felt like I was controlling a RTS character that was clunky and honestly the controls were extremely frustrating for a game of this magnitude to skip something so basic.

    overhyped and overrated. The game can be summed up as: fetch quest to cuscene with boring dialogue to fetch quest to another cutscene with boring dialogue. But yay we have 1000 different possibilities of quests with different boring dialogues and cutscenes so we have a masterpiece......yeah right.    … Expand
  3. euu
    Jun 16, 2016
    5
    Really dissapointing conclusion to Geralt's story. Apparently, CD Project was so impressed by the reception the Blood Baron quest received that decided to make both of their expansion, into simillar soap operas about love, betrayal and family disputes. But where the story of the previous expansion, Hearts of Stone, had interesting characters and a horror movie feeling to it, the story ofReally dissapointing conclusion to Geralt's story. Apparently, CD Project was so impressed by the reception the Blood Baron quest received that decided to make both of their expansion, into simillar soap operas about love, betrayal and family disputes. But where the story of the previous expansion, Hearts of Stone, had interesting characters and a horror movie feeling to it, the story of Blood and Wine does not have any of that. Maybe fans of the books will enjoy it more since most of the characters where from the books ll and they drop reffrerences to them in every cutscene, but I could't bring myself to give a fraction of a crap about any of these characters or the story. It's nice that CD Project decided to finish some of Sapkowski's plots from the books but it would have been nicer if they brought back some of the characters us game fans enjoyed like Saskia or Iorveth.

    Fortunatelly, the game adds enough content to make up for the **** writing. The land of Toussaint is pretty large and is probably the best looking location from the Witcher 3. There are some nice side quests as well like one where you get to speak to your horse or one where you need to return the testicles of a statue. It's too bad most of them still rely on the Witcher Senses mechanic instead of giving the player subtle clues as how to solve them, but hey, it's 2016, you can't expect an RPG developer to put a lot of thought in their quests, right?

    On the gameplay side, there is a lot more content, like more weapons and armor(of which most look just as the ones from the main game), as well as some new witcher gear, including GrandMaster level equipment. The most important addition is the Mutations skill tree which offers some new powerful abillities at a great cost in skill points and mutagens. I didn't find this too interesting however since most of these abilities offer passive bonuses just like the ones from the base game, but then again I didn't insvest in a lot of them since I inished the main story(which is a lot shorter than the 20 hours that the developers promised) and I wasn't too interested to keep playing after.

    Overall, for an expansion that was so hyped and so praised by fanboys, this was very dissapointing. Not terrible, but not good either. If CD project decides to make another Witcher game I hope that they abndon this daytime soap opera writting and return to their more intriguing stories.    … Expand
  4. adbksdb
    Jun 11, 2016
    7
    A bit disappointed by this expansion, being that this was to be the end of the witcher series I expected a bit more.

    Pros Marvelous new world, colourful (a nice departure from the rather drab colours of velen and Novigrad), painstakingly crafted with an amazing care for the details. Passionating, compelling story with deep and interesting characters, and full of meaningful choices to    A bit disappointed by this expansion, being that this was to be the end of the witcher series I expected a bit more.

    Pros
    Marvelous new world, colourful (a nice departure from the rather drab colours of velen and Novigrad), painstakingly crafted with an amazing care for the details. Passionating, compelling story with deep and interesting characters, and full of meaningful choices to be made.

    Cons
    Very few new enemies. Most new monsters are just reskins of those already present in the base game. Boss fight too don't add anything new etiher (apart from the wicked witch wich I really enjoyed). Uncompromisingly and frustratingly difficult at the highest difficulty setting (I had to lower the difficulty for the first time after having finished the base game and Hearts of Iron at death march), most monsters and bosses follow the same old and repetitive mechanics, they are just faster, stronger and harder to hit, which has the side effect of rendering utterly useless most of the skills aquired for your carefully thought-out character build; you will end up never using signs or alchemy since the only strategy that seems to work is dodging, rolling and landing the occasional hit from behind.
    Too many, long and boring fetch quests. Useless and boring treasure hunts, because when you finally manage to have the guy make you the coveted grandmaster sets, you will most probably be at a much higher level than the one necessary to unlock the armor and most quests will be a lower level too.
    Too many cutscenes you can't skip and with too few checkpoints for saving! This already annoyed me in the base game, and here it's even worse. I can understand not being able to save, but why shouldn't I even pause or exit the game during those dialogue cutscenes!    … Expand
  5. Bigruss730
    Jun 1, 2016
    5
    It's just dungeons and dragons, with a few t i t t i e s thrown in. The world is pretty to look at, but boring, nothing really draws you in to see whats round the next corner, unless looking at trees excites you, because there's plenty of trees. I'm hoping for much better things with Cyberpunk....
  6. DonnyBoy
    Jul 29, 2016
    7
    Nice story, the graphics is up to date, and the game play is stable and solid. It is great continuation from last episodes and fun to have it my own collection
  7. 5ivefresh
    Dec 5, 2016
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Really enjoyed the movie like qualities in this game, the rich visuals and soundtracks and the excellent characters, plots and dialogues. What could be better than watching Game of Thrones or Lord of the Rings, than actually taking part in your own adventure?

    What did annoy me the most was the relationship elements of the plot, I got stitched up after sleeping with both Yennefer and Triss and then Ciri died and the game blamed it on my poor choices and made me feel bad Its a game, with dragons and magic so why can't I wander around telling a few hot girls that I love them and end up with a threesome, and be protective and lame with my daughter and still get a happy ending?

    The game is called Witcher 3 not Perfect Boyfriend or Perfect Father 3, someone needs to tell the woman that wrote those plot choices into the game that guys want to have an enjoyable experience not be punished for their perceived attitudes towards women when they are messing around in a fantasy game.

    The other thing that annoyed me is all the time-wasting, running around, collecting hordes of complete worthless junk, the story makes the game and the rest is really just boring filler, they need to make the stuff outside of the awesome main story-line more arcade like and more streamlined.

    When you say there is 90 hours of playtime, the moments that stand out are maybe a tenth of that with a few epic ones and the rest just filler, so not sure a game that wastes this much time is a good thing.

    The story bits were awesome, I would love to see a more fast paced game with fast arcade style fight scenes in between plots and dialogue choices that allow to the player to create their own fantasies rather than be tested and rewarded or punished against the code of the author of the script.

    By the way, Gwent rules.    … Expand
  8. vova22379
    Jan 29, 2023
    7
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Universal acclaim - based on 50 Critic Reviews

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  1. Easy Allies
    Dec 1, 2016
    90
    The Witcher 3: Blood & Wine is an exceptional expansion that reignites a sense of wonder even for players who have put in hundreds of hours so far. The breadth and variety of all that’s included stands stronger than many full-priced sequels. As a twenty-dollar add-on, it’s absolutely worthwhile.
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  2. Pelit (Finland)
    Sep 28, 2016
    90
    An excellent add-on for an excellent game. [Aug 2016]
  3. Games Master UK
    Aug 21, 2016
    85
    A vast, joyful playground, and a wonderful excuse to return to The Witcher 3 one last time. [Aug 2016, p.81]
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