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With his gravelly voice and penchant for murder, it might be considered difficult to truly like Geralt. But I do. In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the professional monster slayer Geralt of Rivia is looking for his “daughter” Cirilla. He soon comes to learn that the Wild Hunt is after her, a group of murderous hunters from another dimension. Armed with two swords, magic, and the power of alchemy, we guide him across a vast land full of ghouls, animals, and peril.
This is an action RPG. The combat has you using steel swords to hack down earthly creatures and silver swords to destroy the mythical ones. Using a somewhat loose block and parry system, the controls are fairly simple, but they offer a depth to them when you combine your skills with magic, which can also turn the tide of battle. Mix in an interesting alchemy system, and there is a lot to like with the combat in this game, enough to even overlook some occasionally spotty controls that may have you slip off a cliff or two on accident. When you kill things or complete quests, you will gain experience, which is applied towards various skill groups. These skills get added to the Mutagen page, which is a surprisingly satisfying way to make sure you are using your skills effectively. Speaking of satisfying, there are a nearly endless supply of quests to keep you busy with, and they are all so well written, they are almost like games in and of themselves. This game could have also been called “Fifty Shades of Grey;” almost every quest requires you to make a decision that wholly benefits nobody and often leaves the world worse for wear. The dialogue trees presented during quests are very telling of Geralt’s, at times, less than noble intentions.
The continents Geralt performs these quests are quite breathtaking. Playing on a PC will of course net a better viewing experience, but getting a rig to adequately play it can be a potentially costly endeavor. I have an i7 processor with a GTX 970 Nvidia Graphics Card, and (an admittedly low) 8GB of RAM, and I had some frame rate issues on the higher settings that could make the game considerably less playable. Even playing on normal settings however, the game has a wonderful art style that can compete with any of it’s contemporaries, whether you’re playing on console or PC. Quick Tip: Turn off those hair physics. They are gorgeous, but… turn them off.
So is this game perfect? Well, not quite. There are some bugs that currently inherit the Earth, some small (swords not appearing after cut scenes, quest targets not appearing right away) and some quite large (game crashes, quest targets not appearing at all). Hopefully this can get weeded out with patches, but the grandpa in me hates seeing them in a game that we are expecting to be ready for purchase. Games today are just too big to catch them all (Pokemon?), but a man can dream. I also had some difficulty wrapping my head around the horse/boat controls. Nothing made me more angry than storming into a group of enemies at full speed, only to have Coach the idiot horse slowly decelerate and let me slide off it’s saddle like I was a kid going to the dentist, bloodthirsty wolves literally eating me alive all the while. I also got stuck behind more than a few trees more often than not, and being that I’m personally always of the speed run mentality, I’m surprised my controller didn’t go through the monitor.
But these are fairly minor gripes when compared to the game as a whole. It is a very polished, very solid, very fun game, and every gamer should find something to enjoy here. The Wild Hunt has a certain charm to it that leaves most games feeling shallow in comparison. I would venture to say that this game is a strong mid year candidate for Game of the Year, if it hasn’t already set the bar too high. It’s certainly my pick up to this point, and one of the best games to come out in recent memory.
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