The Witcher, a pc rpg. Combining those 2 things, just adds up to one thing. Deeply complicated, story driven, lots of monsters or baddies, some special abilities that you come to obtain, amnesia and a twist about 2/3rds into the story.
The Witcher does not deviate from those hallmarks of the PC RPG genre. What it does do is provide a visually brilliant feast. True it’s not the best in the “oh look at my special effects” category of games. The art just makes it stand out a bit more then the brown and gray games, for one this game uses…..green…..a lot.
Combat is a fairly boring piece of button clicking fun, time you’re clicks to do extra damage and so forth. It’s pretty hard to mistime the clicks and your cursor turns red then yellow to show you can click once more. What saves the combat ( a bit ) is the ability to change “stances” to deal with different foes. Though I have found the group stance the best to leave on as default. The only downside to this tactic is against one enemy its not that effective, but in groups its pretty easy to kill everything in just a few clicks.
Enemies just follow the basic “see main char, kill main char” line of logic, though I have seem some run away from my sword wielding cat eyed mutant man, to attack weaker villagers, and naturally only the armed villagers will attack the monsters/bad guys. They will die, quickly and often and there is no repercussions for letting them die and they do either no damage to the enemies or they just stand there staring at them, they’re only use is to delay you being surrounded but with the “group” stance being surrounded is good thing.
Questing is the basic affair of “go kill X amount of creature X, prove your kill with X body part or fluid”, but here is where The Witcher deviates from the norm, instead Gelart (cat eyed mutant man main character) needs to research the monster or creature. A little strange when the quests asks for the head of the monster, Mr Gelart doesn’t understand which part is the head until he reads a book, or you buy a skill during the leveling up event to give you basic information on “some” monsters in the local area.
The Witcher is nothing new in the world of RPGs, but what it does do is nice enough to keep your attention throughout the story while leaving you with the want to go back and play through and do different things differently. It doesn’t require a super PC to play on and is recommended to those who enjoy RPGs of the PC variety. It even has humor hidden in it, though more darker then the humor found in other games like “Knights of The old Republic”.
Hope you have enjoyed my review on this game,
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