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  1. May 31, 2020
    7
    The game itself is great, a 9/10
    With all the issues I'd give a 7/10
    Cons: Very clunky movement, especially painful in small spaces or near ledges making you get stuck or die at times Bad visual glitches and pop-in Horse controls. Gear randomly unequipped by itself Switching signs not working half the time Very repetitive music Bad ending However the game crashes
    The game itself is great, a 9/10
    With all the issues I'd give a 7/10

    Cons:

    Very clunky movement, especially painful in small spaces or near ledges making you get stuck or die at times
    Bad visual glitches and pop-in
    Horse controls.
    Gear randomly unequipped by itself
    Switching signs not working half the time
    Very repetitive music
    Bad ending

    However the game crashes frequently, game breaking bugs happen a lot and it straight up breaks my PC and forces me to restart.
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  2. Oct 6, 2019
    6
    I've tried so hard to like this game, I really have. First off, I love RPG's I love TES, I love zelda, I love fallout, etcetc. The voice acting of the protagonist is quite **** with robotic lines and bad voice lines. The combat is utter dreadful, just as bad as assasins creed. hit hit dodge, hit hit dodge, repeat. Gfx wise its not terrible but the gameplay is **** Very linear even tho youI've tried so hard to like this game, I really have. First off, I love RPG's I love TES, I love zelda, I love fallout, etcetc. The voice acting of the protagonist is quite **** with robotic lines and bad voice lines. The combat is utter dreadful, just as bad as assasins creed. hit hit dodge, hit hit dodge, repeat. Gfx wise its not terrible but the gameplay is **** Very linear even tho you can pick up generic side quests here and there. Very overhyped game and its obviously made for console gamers since their standards are lower. Expand
  3. Feb 4, 2020
    5
    What a game. Still on first play through but WOW.

    Immersion is unparalleled
  4. Jul 23, 2020
    7
    This game is so slow and the combat is pretty terrible. Good if you have a ton of time on your hands, I guess.
  5. Nov 20, 2020
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooddddddddddddddddddddd Expand
  6. Jan 4, 2021
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is quite complex, but theres no freedom. There's only one way to play the game, you have to use every gameplay mechanic aspect such as crafting, alchemy, upgrades, or you're going to struggle in the game. How to do that? loot every single thing you see. But not all ingridients are easy to get, so it feels like a fetch quest outside the quests list. I personally despise fetch quests in video games because they're just a chore and often just a thing disguised as 'exploration'. The controls is one of the worst I've ever seen in a game post 2010 that its so offputting, especially knowing how hyped this game is even until now. I play on the best performance setting possible and it doesn't help. Tried both controller and keyboard+mouse it doesn't make it better either. Looting and combat are heavily affected by the unresponsive controls. The combat itself is very tactical and as I mentioned earlier its impossible to play this in any other way, you're a witcher after all. All the perks, items, and skillsets are important to help you ease the challenge the combat offers. That is a good thing, if the bits and pieces are acquired in more creative ways other than the tedious looting. The open world is uninteresting and areas feel samey. Its full of question marks of places unworthy of exploring usually scattered with enemies, so exploration isn't exploration rather its just giving yourself more things to slash and loot. Many quests (not all but mostly) whether its main/side follow the same pattern. Find the red flashy things with the annoying filtered camera zoom, follow the trail, meet the enemy, fight, go back to quest giver. The worst thing is, you have to do them. Side quests aren't side quests at all. It technically forces you to do it or you'll be underleveled in combat. So theres zero freedom on how you approach the game. Narratively The Witcher 3 isn't a good place to start the franchise if you actually highly value lore and stories in video games like I do. The dialogues are lore heavy and when you know nothing about its just less interesting. The pacing of the story is slow but it wouldn't be a problem if The Witcher 3 open world isn't bland. In conclusion The Witcher 3 suffers confusion of its game design which values quantity over quality. The only good part of the game is the main quests and its choice of dialogue options but that can be a chore at some point. Expand
  7. Jun 30, 2021
    7
    The game deserves the attention for the vast open world that the game offers you to explore .

    The story is written well and characters are well fleshed out . The graphics are great and soundtrack is immersive . There are so many ways to praise this game . But enough of that as I'm sure you can find more of that by other reviewers . This game by definition is still
    The game deserves the attention for the vast open world that the game offers you to explore .

    The story is written well and characters are well fleshed out .

    The graphics are great and soundtrack is immersive .

    There are so many ways to praise this game .

    But enough of that as I'm sure you can find more of that by other reviewers .

    This game by definition is still 'overated.'

    People are too scared to vocalize that this game has its issues in fear of being downvoted or attacked by fans of this game series .

    Truth is , the combat is lacking .

    You dodge back and strike . You do this again and again .

    Combat becomes boring and a chore .

    The story as described above is well written no doubt but it lacks in good pacing .

    The story fails in pacing as you are bombarded with story after story without having time to digest the stories . It makes the stories unmemorable .

    The story starts off very strong as it hypes you up for an epic journey to find Ciri .

    But it just dissolves into nothing but unnecessarily long talks .

    Yes , the talking in this game is long but the talks aren't very interesting . That is the problem .

    Not going to sugar coat it . Romance in the game is for horny men and is cheap perfume . Not like that is 'bad,' but it somewhat gets old after a while . It is like real life marriage almost . Pretty accurate as some may say .

    The villains in Witcher 3 is terribly cliché . They are the stereotypical bad guys with bulky armor . They aren't that interesting as a whole . There are some villans that are intriguing no doubt though .
    They are so forgettable in general .

    Yes this game is based on a series of books written by Andrzej Sapkowski so CDPR can't do much about the villans other than change the way they are visually portrayed in the game .

    Witcher 3 should have not won GOTY . Games like MGSV should have won as MGSV actually had an epic story and amazing gameplay . Though MGSV comes with its flaws it still does the job better at least in gameplay where Witcher 3 lacks heavily .

    The game is overated and overhyped beyond understand but it indeed deserves the attention but only a fraction of it .

    This is why this review is a mixed score .
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  8. Nov 23, 2021
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Amazing game. The best game, where I ever played. Love this. Wanting continue Expand
  9. Jan 13, 2022
    7
    Do not get me wrong - it is a very good game. Incredible story, great characters, it is like a TV Show, but better. My problem is that I actually enjoy the story more than the gameplay itself. Maybe it's because I don't have experience with complicated, RPG mechanics, tons of items you can take with you, potions and spells. I am probably the weird one, but I would enjoy the game more as aDo not get me wrong - it is a very good game. Incredible story, great characters, it is like a TV Show, but better. My problem is that I actually enjoy the story more than the gameplay itself. Maybe it's because I don't have experience with complicated, RPG mechanics, tons of items you can take with you, potions and spells. I am probably the weird one, but I would enjoy the game more as a simple point-and-click as it is just confusing to me. Expand
  10. Mar 12, 2023
    7
    Years later, I have to admit that the game is not that good. I don't think I want to go back there again. The main storyline is very mediocre. The game would be better if we as Geralt were just doing side quests. The open world didn't impress me either if you compare it to the same RDR2 it's heaven and earth.
    Luckily for The Witcher 3 the series has the loathsome The Witcher 2 on the
    Years later, I have to admit that the game is not that good. I don't think I want to go back there again. The main storyline is very mediocre. The game would be better if we as Geralt were just doing side quests. The open world didn't impress me either if you compare it to the same RDR2 it's heaven and earth.
    Luckily for The Witcher 3 the series has the loathsome The Witcher 2 on the background of which part 3 looks pretty good.
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  11. Jan 31, 2022
    7
    Don't give me wrong it is a great game but it isn't for my taste. I am a very story skewed player and the story wasn't the best for me. You pass hours searching for a girl that I don't even know (because I didn't know The Witcher universe).

    Saying that the gameplay is fun, it has very cool finishing animations and a good variety of monsters, though I don't think Gerald has many combat
    Don't give me wrong it is a great game but it isn't for my taste. I am a very story skewed player and the story wasn't the best for me. You pass hours searching for a girl that I don't even know (because I didn't know The Witcher universe).

    Saying that the gameplay is fun, it has very cool finishing animations and a good variety of monsters, though I don't think Gerald has many combat moves, it is just the same attack with swords, dodge, block and one of few magics, BTW spawning quen you are pretty much invincible (I did that on the hardest difficulty and for me, the game was too easy).

    I liked way more the DLC Wine and Blood, for me that was 10/10 but the main story is kinda meh.
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  12. Dec 24, 2019
    7
    Good story and nice game atmosphere drops behind of bad combat mechanics and unbalanced game play. Control schematics and other things are making this game hardly bearable. Even at easiest difficulty is being pain to play. Always dodge dodge hit dodge dodge hit which is boring and provide dull game play. Also if we compare with other RPG games, this one have a very bad shapedGood story and nice game atmosphere drops behind of bad combat mechanics and unbalanced game play. Control schematics and other things are making this game hardly bearable. Even at easiest difficulty is being pain to play. Always dodge dodge hit dodge dodge hit which is boring and provide dull game play. Also if we compare with other RPG games, this one have a very bad shaped Leveling/Experience design. Even they didn't care to fix their mistake over these years. If need risk and rewards, playing easiest or hard doesn't matter because nothing is rewarding you. So, playing easiest will be best option but don't expect it as easiest difficulty. Conclusion: Be realist and don't throw your coins to give over score. 7 point is fine for this game. Expand
  13. Jan 5, 2023
    7
    Awesome game. Game of the decade? Hell no, it's full of euro-jank and character movement and animations are nowhere near the level of Red Dead Redemption, but there's a level of agency to be found in this game that existed nowhere else at the time. Combat is incredibly "of the time" consisting of hit, roll, and dodge mechanics reminiscent of Assassin's Creed. This system leaves so much toAwesome game. Game of the decade? Hell no, it's full of euro-jank and character movement and animations are nowhere near the level of Red Dead Redemption, but there's a level of agency to be found in this game that existed nowhere else at the time. Combat is incredibly "of the time" consisting of hit, roll, and dodge mechanics reminiscent of Assassin's Creed. This system leaves so much to be desired considering the implementation of potions and concoctions that were barely utilized, even on the Blood and Broken Bones difficulty. The graphics are also nothing to sneeze at. Released in 2015, this game still gives more graphically intense titles a run for their money. Add that to an open world, brilliant quest design, and characters with multiple levels of depth to them and you've gotten yourself a title that punches way above what was expected of it, judging by the previous. Side quests also play a large role in The Witcher 3, which is great because side quests are where this game shines. Due to multiple choices which lead to multiple outcomes, each playthrough of The Witcher 3 is different. Some side quests even surpass those that are essential to the main story with their intricacies and decisions driven pathways. Ultimately The Witcher 3 is a game to own, or at least a game to experience. The player driven choice aspect is enough to entice the curiosity of many a gamer. Is it as good as most publications would leave you to believe? No, not at all. But it is a game worth getting lost in. A game you'll play and lose track of time with. Even a title you'll find yourself returning to year after year because of the quality that lies underneath it's many flaws. Expand
  14. Sep 21, 2019
    5
    great game, good combat and world exploration, remembered me a lot of zelda, but the combat and music gets very repetitive very fast; the scripted scenes looks amazing, and i mean all of them even for secondary missions, pretty recommendable to try
  15. Sep 22, 2019
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I don't play a game like this ever before my entire gaming life i did not see any game like this before this game is the best game i ever play Expand
  16. Jul 9, 2022
    7
    Story : 9
    Gameplay : 7
    Graphics : 7
    Atmosphere : 8
  17. Apr 7, 2023
    5
    The Witcher 3 was barely out before being hyped as the absolute pinnacle of RPG-gaming, a must play for everyone & you needn’t bother playing Witcher 1 or 2 before playing 3. Naturally it gets picked as 2015’s GOTY. Who knew it was possible to win more than 800 awards for a video game? Those who say these things clearly haven’t played many video games, not to mention RPGs, let aloneThe Witcher 3 was barely out before being hyped as the absolute pinnacle of RPG-gaming, a must play for everyone & you needn’t bother playing Witcher 1 or 2 before playing 3. Naturally it gets picked as 2015’s GOTY. Who knew it was possible to win more than 800 awards for a video game? Those who say these things clearly haven’t played many video games, not to mention RPGs, let alone Witcher 1&2, which are both far better than Witcher 3

    Its biggest sin is being an open-world game. They did this to compete with games like Dragon Age: Inquisition (2014’s GOTY) & Elder Scrolls: Skyrim (2011’s GOTY). Too much time was spent on building this massive world that not much thought was given on how they would fill it. It was empty & incredibly tedious to trek across the map between missions. You’ve done wrong when the player chooses to fast travel everywhere rather than go on foot. You’re also forced to find a sign post in order to fast travel, you can’t just do it from the map. An open world usually means cutting meaningful quests & characters, which Witcher 3 did in spades; the biggest being no Scoia’tael/Iorveth. In addition, the AI chatter was enough to make me go mad; the same lines repeated over & over w/ the same voices. I can say them in my sleep. The cutscenes were supposed to be Dandelion but for some reason aren’t done by his voice actor, the guy doesn’t even sound close.

    The combat is atrocious, when you feel that the better option is to hack, slash & roll like a ballerina rather than use tactics because the enemies aren’t known for their brains. The use of potions/oils was practically nonexistent until halfway through because you don’t get the crafting diagrams & by then you’ve learned to cope w/o so you don’t even remember that you can now use them. Meditation is not to make potions but to reload your stock using alcohol in your inventory. Tutorials would have been immensely helpful rather than a block of text you’ll never remember. Negotiation is senseless, “A bit high… We’re almost there.” The upgrade system is a complete joke. What’s the point in investing in skills when you can only use a few? Getting to level 30 you can use 12 skills and yet I had many more! You literally need to use a slot in order to have food/drink heal you over time! What? That was just a given in the other games.

    The story absolutely requires you to have not only played the first 2 games but that you’ve read the books as well. I can’t imagine what anyone could have gotten out of this game otherwise. But even though I had the knowledge of the whole story, I felt this game’s story was super weak. They were trying to tell too much & pull in the worst parts of Sapkowski’s books. The first 2 games felt like CDPR was adding to the story of The Witcher and telling their own tale, they weren’t just making the books a game, rather they continued Geralt’s tale a few years after the books. But with this game, it felt the complete opposite. They were now pulling everything they could from the last 2 books (which were awful) & pulling phrases & jokes from every form of entertainment in the real world. It seriously hurt the story. The idea of Ciri traveling between worlds, including our own is just stupid, they could have rewritten something so much better. Instead what was once a dark fantasy is now science fiction. It was very obvious that they had a completely different writer this time around.

    Despite calling itself an RPG, there were no significant choices in this game. Sure there were 3 different endings for Ciri’s fate but as to how those endings were decided, it was a couple small things in conversations rather than actual decisions. It really makes you feel good when you read the wiki and see ‘You can choose whatever you want here, it makes no difference to the story.’ When a choice cutscene would randomly pop up, it felt more like a whoops we forgot to give this meaning so here’s a choice that sucks either way.

    The game is at 4.02 & still buggy. The choice scenes are at a far lower volume than the rest of the game, it’s a miracle if you can hear them w/o subsequently blowing your eardrums out when it switches back to the actual game. There is so much clipping, things disappearing from NPC’s hands or hovering in front of them, animals including Roach would appear in the middle of a conversation with an NPC, etc. What exactly did they fix?

    Now how can we talk about Witcher 3 w/o mentioning the card game Gwent? What a truly horrendous, time-wasting addition. It was clearly there to pad out the game time. You’re forced into your first game to ‘learn’ the directions & I came away no wiser as how to play. All Gwent did was make me miss dice poker.

    In the main game alone, I completed 141 quests in 104.8 hours. I would only recommend for the serious Witcher fan b/c all I can say is thank the Eternal Fire I’m done, I’m headed back to Witcher 1&2
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  18. Aug 10, 2019
    6
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  19. Sep 16, 2019
    6
    Отличный симулятор поиска людей.Так же бы хотел придраться к боёвки,а точнее какой урон проходит в размере с комариный укус от великана с якорем и от алкаша из корчмы у которого просто уровень выше на 10,а с апперкот пол полоски хп уходит.Ну в принципе никто вроде не обещал реализм в игре,но это всё равно тупо,Отличный симулятор поиска людей.Так же бы хотел придраться к боёвки,а точнее какой урон проходит в размере с комариный укус от великана с якорем и от алкаша из корчмы у которого просто уровень выше на 10,а с апперкот пол полоски хп уходит.Ну в принципе никто вроде не обещал реализм в игре,но это всё равно тупо,
  20. Sep 17, 2021
    6
    Не понимаю такого повального восторга от этой игры. Она плоха во всем, от кривого неудобного управления, до псевдо-искусственного открытого мира. На начальной локации ставить врагов с черепом на голове, которые убивают с 1-2 ударов, игрока, который только-только учится играть и привыкает к неудобному корявому управлению, это верх некомпетентности разработчиков. Смысл тогда от открытостиНе понимаю такого повального восторга от этой игры. Она плоха во всем, от кривого неудобного управления, до псевдо-искусственного открытого мира. На начальной локации ставить врагов с черепом на голове, которые убивают с 1-2 ударов, игрока, который только-только учится играть и привыкает к неудобному корявому управлению, это верх некомпетентности разработчиков. Смысл тогда от открытости мира, если меня насильно толкают по сюжету, а на всех значках вопросов отвешивают завышенные по уровню враги. Ну либо там просто копипаста места силы да гнезда. Нет смысла исследовать локации. Идти строго по сюжету и все, ну и делайте тогда коридорную, сюжетно-ориентированную игру. Дерганная камера, от которой голова кружиться начинает, особенно когда ГГ лезет по лестнице. Максимально убогая однообразная боевка. Ни стелса, ни каких то различий в оружии. Все сводится к маханию мечом и вечным перекатам. Даже знаки и те неудобно использовать. Через меню. В том же Ассассине умения (считай знаки) и то проще и продуманней реализованы. Вне боя Геральт за все цепляется, поворачивается как танк на месте, вечно куда то несется и упирается во все подряд. Играть невозможно. 80% всего геймплея это кат-сцены, от которых через время уже начинаешь уставать и тянет зевать. Инвентарь настолько запутанный, что черт ногу сломит. За что ей завышают так оценки, мне не понятно. Она плоха вообще во всем. Глупые НПС, которые тебя вечно толкают и в тебя врезаются, а спутники прижимаются к тебе и трутся об тебя, мешаясь постоянно. Да и НПС пустые болванки, декорации с одинаковыми лицами, которые по сути не несут никакой пользы в игре, только создают помехи. Мини карта с мелкими значками на которой ничерта не видно. Переоцененная игра. Единственно, за что можно накинуть баллы, так только за музыку и неплохие пейзажи ну и может быть сами квесты и их повествование. Expand
  21. Dec 29, 2022
    5
    Story, Open World, Characters, Side Quests are top.

    But a 5 because of the Stupid Leveling System, why can i wear the New Witcher Netflix armor only when im lvl 40 and have to be in Toussaint??, just Stupid. And the Story is way toooo important, to do sidequests etc. you just Feeling like a Idiot. Because 1/3 of all Sidequests are disapearing when you finish the Main Quests. And they
    Story, Open World, Characters, Side Quests are top.

    But a 5 because of the Stupid Leveling System, why can i wear the New Witcher Netflix armor only when im lvl 40 and have to be in Toussaint??, just Stupid.

    And the Story is way toooo important, to do sidequests etc. you just Feeling like a Idiot. Because 1/3 of all Sidequests are disapearing when you finish the Main Quests.

    And they missed many things that needed an Update, and Godammit, WHY DOES IT RAINS EVERY DAY IN THIS FCKIIING GAME!!!
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  22. Jul 30, 2020
    7
    Good game, not without drawbacks, but one of the best I've played. 7/10 deservedly. I advise to buy.
  23. Jul 20, 2020
    7
    Really amazing game. Graphics and animations are enjoyable. Story is great. Very little amount of bugs. Yada yada.

    My main beef is that the game offers you too much. Whenever I turned on the game I dreaded looking at my inventories or anything in the menus for that matter, there was just so, so, so much going on in there. But not only that but the world itself. It's definitely
    Really amazing game. Graphics and animations are enjoyable. Story is great. Very little amount of bugs. Yada yada.

    My main beef is that the game offers you too much. Whenever I turned on the game I dreaded looking at my inventories or anything in the menus for that matter, there was just so, so, so much going on in there. But not only that but the world itself. It's definitely oversaturated which I feel works against the game. I mean, that's only if you don't always want to stick to the main quest and meander off and explore. I love exploring open world games but the Witcher really made me feel as though I only wanted to play the main quest and ignore all the things on the side.

    Amazing all around, again my only issue really is the over-saturation of content. It feels way too overwhelming.
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  24. Nov 13, 2021
    5
    Just go for it , this will be the best gameplay experience in any game that you will ever play
  25. Aug 25, 2022
    5
    Я не считаю игру плохой, поэтому не буду ставить низкий балл, но мне эта игра неинтересна. Сюжет прикольный. Графика красивая. Геймплей слишком фэнтезийный, что ли. Просто игра не зашла.
  26. Dec 17, 2021
    6
    Не зашло из-за боевки и необходимости готовится к каждому противнику — не моё
  27. May 6, 2022
    7
    It is hard to rate;

    Story is funny
    Graphics are incredible
    Quests are creating great atmosphere

    But at the same time, game is VEEERY boring. It is just about doing all the same stuff over and over, until the end... plus for "no save during combat" thingy and the fact i was actually stuck in this game. I like tricky games!
  28. May 26, 2022
    5
    Если вы считаете что эталонная ерпеге должна выглядеть как слешер который кроме боёвки весь такой нудный то как-то что-то не очень всё получается
  29. Jun 8, 2022
    7
    As a Polish citizen, I can't really say that I fully enjoyed the game.
    I tried playing for a longer period of time but in the end, it just didn't work...
    I got way past the Blood Baron mission (can't really tell where exactly) and then I kinda didn't feel the need to play more - it simply wasn't that interesting to me. As for audio, it's 10/10 and the same goes for the story but as
    As a Polish citizen, I can't really say that I fully enjoyed the game.
    I tried playing for a longer period of time but in the end, it just didn't work...

    I got way past the Blood Baron mission (can't really tell where exactly) and then I kinda didn't feel the need to play more - it simply wasn't that interesting to me.

    As for audio, it's 10/10 and the same goes for the story but as for me - the combat etc. wasn't to my liking and that probably was the reason why I dropped the game.
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  30. Jul 5, 2022
    6
    Okay buddy I’m going to get some stuff for you baby shower lol but I don’t want to know anything
  31. Sep 8, 2023
    5
    just mainstream populer cultur that was boring i want war this game says comlicated things
  32. Jan 10, 2023
    7
    An interesting movie with gameplay elements but a little overrated .
  33. Dec 11, 2022
    7
    Not recommended for those who dislike games where combat is not fun.
    It is not recommended for those who do not like motion or uncomfortable controls.

    Other than that, the other parts are good. The story is good and the details of the quests are alive.
  34. Apr 12, 2023
    5
    I wish I could lose my memory and play this game again and finish it. In a word, a unique experience. I promised myself that one day I will play this game on the highest settings, I hope I can keep my promise.
  35. Jul 20, 2023
    7
    Her yan görevin özgün olması ve özenle yapılmış olması hikaye örgüsü ve bunun açılması. Dönemine göre ve hala teknik/grafik olarak güncelliğini koruması ile Witcher 3 iyi bir oyun. DLC'leri ise başarılı ve ayrı standalone oyun olabilecek kadar iyi.
  36. Jul 11, 2023
    6
    Story:

    The main quest of rescuing Ciri could be seen as a missed opportunity for an open world game. Wow, Geralt, look at this expansive and breathtaking map... BUT HURRY, THEY ARE ABOUT TO KILL HER! But take it easy... why not take a break and play some cards? Why not visit the tavern, share stories, and enjoy the world around you? - BUT HURRY, THEY ARE ABOUT TO KILL HER!
    Story:

    The main quest of rescuing Ciri could be seen as a missed opportunity for an open world game.

    Wow, Geralt, look at this expansive and breathtaking map... BUT HURRY, THEY ARE ABOUT TO KILL HER!

    But take it easy... why not take a break and play some cards? Why not visit the tavern, share stories, and enjoy the world around you? - BUT HURRY, THEY ARE ABOUT TO KILL HER!

    Protagonist:

    Geralt is portrayed as an exceptionally skilled and cool character. Geralt is cool... I wonder if maybe a bit too much.

    It's common in most role-playing or open world games to start as a nobody and gradually become someone, building and defining your character along the way. This can be a highly satisfying experience. When you envision how you will design and develop your character, and finally witness their full growth, it feels amazing. It reflects all the hours and effort you've invested in the game. However, in The Witcher 3, you begin as Geralt at level 1 with 5 spells and 2 swords, and after countless hours, you end up as Geralt at level 35 with 5 spells and 2 swords. The only difference is that, mysteriously, the latter feels ineffective and unable to face any challenges, despite being Geralt of Rivia, the legendary witcher with years of experience. For instance, I can easily defeat a griffin without any issues, but then I enter an area where I supposedly shouldn't be, and a dwarf bandit kills me. At a certain point, you question whether the leveling system was necessary in this game, if it was included simply because other games have it, and if it truly aligns with what a witcher is supposed to do. If perhaps they should have focused on depth in other aspects of the game instead.

    Inventory and Rewards:

    I'll be clear: On which planet, in which corner of the known universe, is the inventory system in this game considered acceptable? How many crafting materials does Geralt carry? I often find myself not knowing what half of the items I take are for. Does the game genuinely expect me to have the energy to read and learn the purpose of each item? Instead of being a game with 5 significant options, it presents us 100, and in the end, I find myself performing the same actions in every battle. As for the open world... Rather than exploring by gazing at the horizon, I'm constantly guided by a minimap with markers indicating where to go.
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Metascore
93

Universal acclaim - based on 32 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 32
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 32
  3. Negative: 0 out of 32
  1. Jan 28, 2016
    90
    The Witcher 3 says no to all of this - it's a great game with a fully realized setting, it's a joy to play, the business model behind it treats its customers like human beings, and it delivers a story that finally hits the tone of the books.
  2. Jan 20, 2016
    100
    Probably the best open-world RPG ever made, but it still falls prey to some of the genre's worst traps.
  3. Nov 4, 2015
    80
    I've made it pretty clear that it's hardly a flawless game, but that doesn't change the fact that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is something pretty bloody special and you should absolutely play it.