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what's up Internet Kevin here now The Witcher 3 has been out for a few weeks now and I did already do a sort of little mini review called a week with The Witcher but there's so much this game has to offer either I just had to spend some more time on it before I brought you guys my final thoughts because there's things I just didn't know about yet so there's gonna be just a little sort of addendum to that video reiterating what my main points were for things that I liked but I didn't like and covering stuff I just didn't know about yet mostly concerning the game's late game story so back when I did the week with Witcher 3 video I said that I thought I was about two-thirds ROI for the plot which nope I was really only about halfway through and even a little less than that which is absolutely fantastic because it's just even larger than I originally thought and the CD Projekt RED put this game at being as long as possibly 200 hours which is totally possible if you're a hardcore completionist the main story can be tackled alone with just a few major side quests totaling only about 50 hours but there's so much more to do that if you prefer taking your time there are tons of options like doing which are contracts to kill monsters or crater hunts for better gear the game pieces the main story with an F XP that if you just want to blitz that alone you can but a higher difficulties taking your time with side quests is definitely handy so you can amass a little more wealth and supplies as well as over level yourself a little bit during the game's first half it maintains an excellent sense of pacing as you can take your time simply searching and doing as many side quests as you want while the second half of the game picks up the pace and urgency a lot more the whole plot is super well done with a fantastic cast of new and returning characters though there are a few missing phases that I really hope to see show up in the game's expansions Nataly though the game's plot does have one major weakness which is the ending which just left me feeling a bit disappointed there are three different ones in the wall the one I got wasn't bad it was very brief and quiet considering all the build up the rest of the game created for it it wasn't a particularly bad ending just wasn't as good as I was hoping for the postgame clayey flog scenes do help to give it a bit more satisfying finish but the game just feels like it's missing a major climactic moment near the end so this is basically one more weakness add-on to the very small pile that I mentioned back in the week with The Witcher video and honestly all of them together still do very little to detract from all the things this game does right like I said before sometimes wrote responds and really dumb places sometimes which makes it really annoying to get to your horse I wish the game gave you a little more freedom with what you could put into your quick item slots because you're limited to only using bombs or pocket items which to me would make a lot more sense if you do things like say put additional potions or three bumps you out of multiple ones or no bombs if you want make room for other items it just seems silly to give you the restrictions the game currently has speaking of which by far the game's silliest downside is the falling damage which is absolutely ridiculous you can fall off of something that's maybe ten feet high and take a little damage but if you follow something that's about 15 feet high you'll instantly die which can just get really annoying it's almost as if Gerald's legs are made out of really thin glass or something last up my only other small complaint is the fact that I wish the games main card a minigame Gwent was just a bit better because they put a lot of effort into integrating it into the rest of the game I mean there's whole side quests are wrapped around either challenging major players two games of Gwent collecting rare cards and there's even parts in the main plot where while you're waiting for something like an ambush you can play Gwent with other characters to pass the time it's such a central part of the game but to me it's just not very interesting and I ended up skipping it more often than actually playing those things aside to though pretty much everything else in this game is amazing combat is smooth and fast-paced I highly recommend playing the game on it's higher difficulties as this is one of those titles where the feeling of victory over a boss thanks to proper preparation and tactics is absolutely phenomenal the crafting system has been simplified a bit from past games and that you don't have to recraft every potion you discover and I think it makes a perfect compromise between complexity and user friendliness and while it's not truly a completely open world in the traditional sense when compared to games like Elder Scrolls or later Fallout games it's close enough and covers what matters giving players to huge areas to explore along with a view smaller ones as well even better these areas feel alive and like actual real world environments and they're dense enough with interesting side content like finding bandit camps hidden treasures and monster dens to clear out so it's never just one big open area that you spend tons of mindless time running through like I said before while the ending does fall a bit flat it's not bad and every other piece of the story is handled really well the choices in the game vary between morally difficult or fairly clean cut with a mix of some rewarding you just as you might think and others coming to bite you in the ass later which is perfect for those you interested in doing multiple playthroughs to be perfectly honest this is my favorite new game I've played so far in 2015 with just a couple others coming close I can't possibly recommend this game enough especially when you consider that for 60 bucks right now you can easily get well over a hundred hours of gameplay without any paid for content which just puts a lot of other current games to shame as always if you guys enjoyed the video hit that thumbs up button let me know subscribe if you haven't yet and follow me on Twitter I've got more content planned and on the way we've that III and just another week so there's gonna be a lot of news coming out of there you're not gonna want to miss but until then I'm Kevin Henson and I'll see you guys later