![]() To be fair, it’s not a spur of the moment thing: you have a chance to speak to both characters before coming to a decision. Quite literally the entire game hinges upon one decision that you make. This time around, the effects are not simply slightly changed lines of dialogue and prices, and the odd mission. As in the original Witcher, you can side with either the Scoi’atel (a group of elven and dwarven freedom fighters), here led by the elf Iorveth, or the human establishment, this time represented not by the Order of the Flaming Rose, but by Vernon Roche and his Blue Stripes. ![]() The story as a whole is engaging and fascinating, the train wreck of an ending notwithstanding.Īfter Act One, the game effectively splits into two branches, each of which only tells you half of the story. Over the course of the game, however, with copious amounts of help from the Characters section of your Journal, you do begin to get a picture of the history and politics of Witcher 2’s world, and it’s a very interesting world indeed, once you begin to understand it. ![]() For those who have read the novel series, this is a nice allusion, but it can be more than a little confusing if the Witcher game (or its sequel) was your first foray into the universe. Many characters in the game have this nasty habit of referring to past events, particularly the war between south and north. These are all dwarfed by the enormous Nilfgaardian Empire to the south, ruled by a mysterious emperor with an enormously powerful army, with whom they have a tentative peace treaty. It is only one of five main Northern Kingdoms, the others being Redania, Lyria, Aedirn and Kaedwen. It really strikes you how large the world is, and how insignificant Temeria’s problems really are. As you progress through the game, Geralt slowly recovers his memory and begins to remember the events surrounding his first death. It doesn’t carry on immediately from the end of the original game, but nothing overly important happens between the games. Together with his sorceress-girlfriend Triss Merigold and the commander of the Temerian Special Forces, Vernon Roche, he travels the Northern Kingdoms to clear his name and find the one responsible for the crime (there are no prizes for guessing what this crime is). Needless to say, something goes horribly wrong, and (this is really becoming an overused cliché now) he is sent to prison. He has become something of a senior advisor to King Foltest of Temeria, and is helping him to lead a campaign against the La Valettes, a family of barons with their eyes on the throne. You play once again as Geralt of Rivia, the amnesia-afflicted Witcher who, through sheer apathy, manages to involve himself in every minor problem faced by his world.
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