![]() ![]() The first expansion pack for Witcher 3, Heart Of Stone, is a 10-hour story that uses new locations nestled into the previously-empty northern area around Novigrad. To their credit CD Projekt do almost manage to extract themselves from the corner they’ve backed themselves into. Unfortunately when it comes to expansions this is something of a double-edged sword: how on earth do you follow up something like that in an expansion pack while keeping the level of quality as high as the original game? Furthermore, it was a plot that was all the better for being a self-contained whole there’s no cliffhanger or trailing for a sequel, just a complete story that took the time to give itself a satisyfing denouement, with a half-hour coda afterwards where you took stock of what had happened and tidied up loose ends. It felt like the first genuine step forward for RPGs in years, portraying both a believable world and empathetic, human characters who effortlessly drew you into a plot that felt like it had real, emotional stakes. ![]() The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was arguably 1 the best game released in 2015, an achievement all the more remarkable for 2015 being a very good year for games in general.
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