By: Michael Selkirk
For those players that love a good story, with smooth and dynamic combat, or even just something pretty to look at, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has something for everyone. The game has the player take control of Geralt, a mutated human with enhanced senses, metabolism, and physical capabilities. All of these mutations are necessary to be one of the monster hunters known as the Witchers. The story follows Geralt’s quest of searching for his adopted daughter Ciri, who has been missing for over five years, and is now being chased by an incorporeal army known as the Wild Hunt. It is Geralt’s mission to find out why the Wild Hunt is looking for her, where Ciri has gone, and how to help her through this difficult time in their lives. The Witcher 3 is a fantastic game with a world so immersive, it feels as if it could function without the player being there. In other words, the game world feels real, like everyone from the kings to the peasants and soldiers would be able to go about their lives even if the player never stumbles upon them. Just like how other real people will live their lives if you never interact with them. This provides the player with a space to occupy and influence, but it also provides for more intense feelings of uncertainty, and mystery as you play the game. Being a role-playing game, this only benefits the story and the experience of play, because each choice given to the player feels like it has extreme importance; and with multiple different endings, most of your choices will have some impact on which ending you get. To give The Witcher a score, I’d reward it a 9.5/10, as it is nearly perfect with minor or irrelevant bugs that do not take away from the play experience.
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