My Thoughts on "The Witcher 1"
Sunday, 13 February 2022 01:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
temrisYesterday, with almost 39 hours on the game, I finally finished The Witcher 1 The Enhanced Edition.
I had a blast playing this game to be honest! It was just everything I looked for in a RPG back when I was in high school that I wished I knew about this game back then, because I believe I would have finished it at an even shorter notice. A fantasy world with lots of different races, different places, alchemy, sword-fighting, and a skill tree to open? Count me in! During my first few hours in, I felt a little perplexed by how much a smaller developer team actually managed to fit in this game back in 2007! And well, not all of it is fun to be honest.
There are three different fighting stances for your steel and silver swords. Now, the annoying part is when you don't realize why your slashes do no damage until you realize you're either using the wrong sword or the wrong stance - and sometimes the game randomly takes out your OTHER weapons like an axe or a torch in the middle of a hard fight and that's not fun to watch. Another thing that bummed me a lot was how the enemies blocked your path. It might sound like petty nitpicking but it's definitely given me lots of game overs when I had to cross a path to beat the spider boss whose name I've forgotten. Like, I know what I have to do but those smaller spiders don't let me do it! If you fight them, you'd get late and the big one just one-hit-kills you. Stuff like this infuriated me.
The best part was obviously the story for me. The MC not remembering their identity and us choosing our path this way reminded me of KotOR a little bit. I chose the neutral path but it broke my heart to not side with Siegfried (I almost cried when I had to fight with him during the illusions the Grand Master of the Eternal Fire created in the Ice Plains) - who was one of my favorite side characters, the other one being Dandelion (even though his VA was... weird). I also romanced Shani and I didn't regret it one bit. She was so cute. Though, now that I think about it, I realized I have an unresolved conflict at the end of the story...?! What happened to Alvin after he vanished? Maybe it gets resolved in the second game or did I mess up lol? Lastly, one of the things that really crushed me was the bride dying before the day of her marriage, and her sister's death along with hers. It was so sad but it made me really happy that I could at least lift their curse that bind them to the world.
There were some great tracks that set the mood for the scene - and the scenery (my favorite was this environment track and this boss battle music with a killer riff that lets you know shit just got real!) but the rest (especially that one battle track) gets real old - like fighting the drowners in the swamp... When you play it too much, stuff like that begins to irk you. So maybe it's best to not play it too consecutively lol.
In any case, I'll remember this game with a nicer memory for sure.
I had a blast playing this game to be honest! It was just everything I looked for in a RPG back when I was in high school that I wished I knew about this game back then, because I believe I would have finished it at an even shorter notice. A fantasy world with lots of different races, different places, alchemy, sword-fighting, and a skill tree to open? Count me in! During my first few hours in, I felt a little perplexed by how much a smaller developer team actually managed to fit in this game back in 2007! And well, not all of it is fun to be honest.
There are three different fighting stances for your steel and silver swords. Now, the annoying part is when you don't realize why your slashes do no damage until you realize you're either using the wrong sword or the wrong stance - and sometimes the game randomly takes out your OTHER weapons like an axe or a torch in the middle of a hard fight and that's not fun to watch. Another thing that bummed me a lot was how the enemies blocked your path. It might sound like petty nitpicking but it's definitely given me lots of game overs when I had to cross a path to beat the spider boss whose name I've forgotten. Like, I know what I have to do but those smaller spiders don't let me do it! If you fight them, you'd get late and the big one just one-hit-kills you. Stuff like this infuriated me.
The best part was obviously the story for me. The MC not remembering their identity and us choosing our path this way reminded me of KotOR a little bit. I chose the neutral path but it broke my heart to not side with Siegfried (I almost cried when I had to fight with him during the illusions the Grand Master of the Eternal Fire created in the Ice Plains) - who was one of my favorite side characters, the other one being Dandelion (even though his VA was... weird). I also romanced Shani and I didn't regret it one bit. She was so cute. Though, now that I think about it, I realized I have an unresolved conflict at the end of the story...?! What happened to Alvin after he vanished? Maybe it gets resolved in the second game or did I mess up lol? Lastly, one of the things that really crushed me was the bride dying before the day of her marriage, and her sister's death along with hers. It was so sad but it made me really happy that I could at least lift their curse that bind them to the world.
There were some great tracks that set the mood for the scene - and the scenery (my favorite was this environment track and this boss battle music with a killer riff that lets you know shit just got real!) but the rest (especially that one battle track) gets real old - like fighting the drowners in the swamp... When you play it too much, stuff like that begins to irk you. So maybe it's best to not play it too consecutively lol.
In any case, I'll remember this game with a nicer memory for sure.
