I just got done with The Witcher 2. I was going to play The Witcher 3 when it's released and have that be my first experience with the series, but I had a little bit of downtime from newer games so decided on two.

I think there are a few design flaws here and there, but it really is a special RPG. The issues I had were minor like, there should have been a button to interact with things instead of using the same button to attack. The delay after I kill an enemy and being able to pick stuff up is a bit of an annoyance. Again, these are really minor criticisms.

However, the plot is incredible, the combat is a lot of fun and has some depth once you get used to it (at first the controls bothered me a bit but I adapted), leveling up was also fun because of the multiple skill trees and being able to mutate said abilities, and the side-quests were interesting. There were a lot of twists and turns so you never really knew what was going to happen, even in quests, and I liked how your decisions were pretty definitive, so you could even miss an item later if you did something stupid earlier. It adds impact to your choices, and the game also reflects that in the ending. I have to say, the ending scene after the credits made me go, "Oh trout." It's just a really well-told low-fantasy RPG, and while I was originally excited for Wild Hunt just because of the hype and love the previous games have gotten, I can be more excited now that I'm invested in what's going on.

At first I didn't see why the game was getting 9s, 9.5s and 10s, but somewhere in Chapter 1 I started to really really like it and then in Chapter 2 I fell in love fully.