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Just finished TW2 :3
Tuesday, 30 May 2023 07:44 pmIt seems I've spent nearly 10 hours less finishing this game than I did The Witcher 1, but it felt sooooo much longer for some reason.
I started playing upto Chapter I on a different PC when I didn't have mine. I was a little disappointed with the changes but welcomed some of them (there were no more 6 different combat options just for striking). Anyway... the prologue really made me ehhh so I took my time starting over when I got my own PC, only doing so when craving my medieval fix after watching Merlin again.
One of my driving forces before playing this game was to see my boy Siegfried again, even though I knew he was more of a cameo in this one. My favorite girl, Shani, was also absent so I was like meh before starting, and that may be one of the reasons why I wasn't so interested at first. I think the side quests were also boring most of the time, not counting the obvious monster hunting ones. It picked up during Ch. II, but the "reliving" parts in the mist were also meh and too long for my taste. I liked the quests most during Ch. II because it included more of the "unimportant" people like soldiers into the mix (Mavrick one was my favorite ig). I loved doing the side quests in TW1 and I was a little disappointed that there weren't that many in this one.
Combat overhaul, like I mentioned was mostly welcome though the keys took me some time to get used to after playing the first one. The inventory was too cluttered for my taste and I had so many problems with the weight system. Most of these issues are things I got more or less used to with time though so I'm mostly nitpicking right now.
Story was... a story. Like I said earlier, most of those "reliving" parts were boring to me and could have been cut, and the main enemy fell flat in the end. Everyone is conspiring against each other blah blah blah... Most of the time I did not care about any of the characters, even Vernon Roche - to be fair, I only followed his route to see my boy Siegfried.
SIEGFRIED........ MY BOY.
You only get to speak to him for like two minutes in his camp, but I managed to see him againwhen I decided to take Anais to Natalis and he was SO CUTE helping Geralt out again. I am the Grandmaster of the Order of the Siegfried Lovers and I'll do anything to see him again. It seems he is only mentioned in TW3 so I guess I'll take my time playing that one LOL.
I felt like the monsters were really lackluster in variety, fr, I remember slaying soooo many different ones in TW1 and here it was mostly like 10 or sumn idk. I guess it's more focused on politics than the first one...
In the end, I'll probably replay it to see how Iorveth's path plays out, but it might take me like years LMAOO we'll see I guess 🤷♀️
I started playing upto Chapter I on a different PC when I didn't have mine. I was a little disappointed with the changes but welcomed some of them (there were no more 6 different combat options just for striking). Anyway... the prologue really made me ehhh so I took my time starting over when I got my own PC, only doing so when craving my medieval fix after watching Merlin again.
One of my driving forces before playing this game was to see my boy Siegfried again, even though I knew he was more of a cameo in this one. My favorite girl, Shani, was also absent so I was like meh before starting, and that may be one of the reasons why I wasn't so interested at first. I think the side quests were also boring most of the time, not counting the obvious monster hunting ones. It picked up during Ch. II, but the "reliving" parts in the mist were also meh and too long for my taste. I liked the quests most during Ch. II because it included more of the "unimportant" people like soldiers into the mix (Mavrick one was my favorite ig). I loved doing the side quests in TW1 and I was a little disappointed that there weren't that many in this one.
Combat overhaul, like I mentioned was mostly welcome though the keys took me some time to get used to after playing the first one. The inventory was too cluttered for my taste and I had so many problems with the weight system. Most of these issues are things I got more or less used to with time though so I'm mostly nitpicking right now.
Story was... a story. Like I said earlier, most of those "reliving" parts were boring to me and could have been cut, and the main enemy fell flat in the end. Everyone is conspiring against each other blah blah blah... Most of the time I did not care about any of the characters, even Vernon Roche - to be fair, I only followed his route to see my boy Siegfried.
SIEGFRIED........ MY BOY.
You only get to speak to him for like two minutes in his camp, but I managed to see him again
I felt like the monsters were really lackluster in variety, fr, I remember slaying soooo many different ones in TW1 and here it was mostly like 10 or sumn idk. I guess it's more focused on politics than the first one...
In the end, I'll probably replay it to see how Iorveth's path plays out, but it might take me like years LMAOO we'll see I guess 🤷♀️
