The second is that it serves as a clear entryway into the world that you’re stepping into. In fact, most of the time, the leads themselves create a time-buffer, with whoever you need information from giving you a quest that, by its very nature, takes time to complete. You’re chasing down leads, not racing to stop the apocalypse, and leads take time to develop. You aren’t made to feel guilty for indulging in a side quest as you wander around the incredibly beautiful world of Wild Hunt. The first is that it gives you purpose without creating an artificial sense of urgency to work against the freedom of an open world. The Witcher 3: the environments are lavishly rendered There are a few brief flashbacks that sell you on who she is and why Geralt cares for her, but more importantly there’s a clarity of purpose here that does a few things exceedingly well.
Wild Hunt learns from this mistake, and gives you a very clear, and a very compelling goal: find Ciri, your surrogate daughter.
Players who weren’t familiar were constantly exposed to new nations, and new figures from those nations, and even if you did educate yourself on who they were and why they mattered, it’s hard to care about imaginary politics. Wild Hunt doesn’t let you forget that, and that’s to its credit.Īs brilliant as The Witcher 2 was, it suffered from wrapping its story up in the politics of an imaginary world. You exist to hunt monsters, it’s why Geralt has feline eyes and a body riddled with scars. It’s a very specific character with a very specific job, without a huge amount of scope for occupying your time all that much outside of that vocation. Wild Hunt pits you as Geralt, the titular Witcher, a mutant monster hunter who has somehow managed to accidentally careen from one major political event to another over the past few games. You’re either coming from the game’s own heritage, the first two Witcher games, and you’re wondering how CDProjekt RED have managed to take what has been a tight, focused RPG experience and extrapolated it out into a huge open world without losing the benefit of that focus, or you’re coming from Skyrim, that great Bethesdian behemoth, and you’re wondering if an open world RPG with such a specific player character and vocation can work without feeling hemmed in, restrictive, uncomfortable. It’s difficult to come to The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt without any preconceptions. Formats PlayStation 4 (tested), Xbox One, PC Developer CD Projekt Red Publisher Bandai Namco Age rating PEGI 18+ Released
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