The script is forever interrupting nuanced conversations and bending in on itself to justify sending Geralt 200 miles to his next objective. These side quests play a sad mind game on you as well, dotting your map with a hundred contrastingly white question marks with story missions taking place at opposite ends of the world to give you every opportunity to waste more time.Įven main objectives struggle under the old anvils of the RPG genre. The Wild Hunt’s campaign length and total time sink was a frequent boasting point for developers at CD Projekt RED, and it is disheartening to see over 75 percent of timeline come from the most banal kind of fluff. These mini-objectives are completely optional, but highly marketed. In reality, most of the time you will do one of those things for 25 seconds, get a useless amount of coin and/or experience, and repeat the process in a slightly different fashion two minutes later. You will haggle your price on a hunt, use Geralt’s enhanced Witcher sense to follow a trail of bloody footprints leading to a cave, prepare yourself for battle with potions and blade oils, and take on a powerful spirit with devastating sword swipe combos.

At the best of times, a contract on one of the notice boards in a town will lead to a satisfying hunt of a devastatingly powerful creature.

Witcher wild at heart