Recent reviews by dragnaa

I do suck at it, but it's not the best game I suck at. It's just frustrating. I feel like the balance on power is still really off, and the travel indicators are just useless for how much environmentally can effect you. Both of those independently are fine, but together just leads to a single mistake ruining an entire run. I should git gud, but it's not fun enough to bother.

The controls are a bit frantic for such a casual game. Both on keyboard/mouse and with controller there are just some things that make it feel like I have to curl my hands into unnatural shapes to get things done. Controller is definitely more comfortable, but several times I'd gone into build mode while trying to broom someone, or not cleaned or done things on first button press.

I was actually working around that for the most part because the rest of the game was pretty enjoyable, but for how I game these days not having a quick save is pretty much a killer. Saving at sleep...I don't know maybe other posts/comments/replies have gone over the decision making on that, but nothing I could possibly think of is a valid excuse to not just have a quick save feature. It's a killer for any game, but to say if I need to quickly run off and save the game I have to just burn a whole day and sleep to get the save going that's just not for me. Stinks because it's an otherwise neat game.

Please stop selling this game. If it doesn't work on download for the majority of users, you haven't done your job.

Like most, I love the story of this game (though the dialogue leaves a lot to be desired overall), but I must say the combat is really not to my liking. It's a weird hybrid of action oriented on the fly combat mechanics and the classic press spacebar to map out your strategy combat of old 3/4 view rpgs.

My biggest issue with the combat, though, is the lack of responsiveness. Every hit feels clunky, slow, and very imprecise. I can see what they were attempting to do here, but it feels as dull and unsatisfying as combat in Skyrim.

The thing is, the design, writing, and other general gameplay features of the witcher shine through so much that I'd still recommend getting this game if you're a fan of open world rpgs. I was just a little disappointed in the combat, as that did seem to be a focus for the game.