So i started playing The Witcher and I must say, I'm pleasantly surprised by the game. The presentation is flawless (art, environment, sleek menus etc), the character development seems deep and varied, the NPC's interesting, the world lively and atmospheric and the story intriguing, so far.
I'm looking forward to spending a lot more time with the game. I haven't made it all that far though, played through the initial attack on the fortress and now looking for clues in a small, scary town ravaged by the plague. Coolio.
Some things I didn't like, though: the slow-ass pace with which your character walks backward. Always need to do a 360 with the camera, meh. Combat seems to be pure point-click-attack. And while I don't really mind the whole bed-848654-women thing on a fratboy level, it really does kind of mess with the atmosphere that EVERY hot woman you meet is all like "hey, wanna have sex? Cause you know, we could if you wanted to".
Regardless, I have 1 card and messed up another one (I think) by implying to a waitress that she was easy. So yeah, that's coming along.
And I loved doing so. I ended up on the neutral path not because of some alignment I had set out to pursue or some such, but because of spontaneous choices I made throughout. Very cool.
