The Witcher brand is very famous and it definitely deserves it. The books are awesome and the games are too. Well, from what I’ve heard. I just finished the first one because I didn’t wanna skip and wanted to enjoy the story. It was definitely worth it.

This review is from 2015/2016 season

Pros:
– for how old the game is, the graphics are still good
– great story
– Prologue and Chapter 1 were great introduction
– Chapter 5 and Epilogue were definitely great ending
– Chapter 5 and Epilogue were definitely the best from the game
– very good music
– the cities and locations felt alive
– awesome atmosphere
– when you get used to the combat, it’s fun
– you don’t only use your swords but also magic
– you can wield the iconic swords through whole game, the gearing is mostly on the talents if you want
– good and many various enemies
– your choices matter
– good voice acting, actually hours and hours of it
– fun secondary quests

Cons:
– many, many same friendly NPC used over and over again just with different name and VO
– too much inivisible walls
– inventory system
– eventhough the HP recovery system brings different type of challenge, it became more of annoying then challenge
– Chapter 3 was just unbearable. Too long and not that interesting.
– you need to get used to the combat
– you don’t gear much from gears, but since you wanna use the badass Witcher sword anyway, it’s actually good thing
– sometimes you really need to have the right potions, otherwise you’re dead and can’t move
– many loading screens, but they were fast, so it was ok
– some of the quests were go here, go across two maps, oh and go back and go there again, which we hate big time

I could go even more to details what I liked and didn’t like but I think you got the idea. It’s really good game and for me the Chapter 5 and Epilogue went 8/10, but the full game is:

7/10
Good game!!