The Witcher 3 Review: The best RPG in recent memory

The Witcher 3 is the kid in your class that is always going above and beyond and making you look bad.  They are the ones who are always raising their hands and getting the right answer, they are the one that excels at sports and the coach makes yells at you to be more like them.  The Witcher 3 is a damn near perfect game.  It is truly immersive, breathe-taking, gut wrenching, and addicting.  It is a really fantastic game.  

The game really excels at making you care about it’s characters.  You actually sort of fall in love, with Triss or Yen.  Zoltan and Dandelion feel like old friends, especially if you’ve played the other games in the series.  You really care about finding Ciri, your surrogate daughter.  The game uses these connections to draw out emotions.  You feel enraged when you see Zoltan being harassed because he is a dwarf.  You rush out to help Yen and Triss when they need help.  These emotions extend to the minor characters you run into. I remember a quest where I was just walking around and I ran into this old lady who needed help finding her favorite pan.  This sounds stupid, but I actually cared!  The lady was well voiced, and dammit, she really needed that pan!

That’s where that analogy I talked about earlier comes in.  The recent slew of RPG”s such as Skyrim or Dragon Age: Inquisition have really sub par side quests.  Skyrim ends up just making you clean up dungeons with Draugrs, Draugrs and more Draugrs. Inquisition’s side quests seem like an afterthought.  They feel like chores.  The side quests feel like they are the busy work quests in an MMO.  In summary, they are terrible.  The Witcher 3 is amazing with its sidequests.  I sometimes forgot I wasn’t playing the main campaign.  The side quests are so great, that they make the actual main quest, which is pretty good in its own right, look awful in comparison.  The Witcher 3 is an excellent game and totally worth your money.  You can easily sink over 100 hours into it, and they are going to release a new DLC in just a few months.  There’s a lot of wrong ways to spend money.  The Witcher 3 is not one of those.

The Witcher 3 can be purchased here!