![]() ![]() Never before had I found myself so panicked in my time controlling the Butcher of Blaviken. Not about to let me succeed so easily, however, the beasts swarmed me each time I tried to single one out, webbing me to slow my movements before chipping away at the defenceless Geralt. These baddies will regularly appear in numbers, and in my first encounter with them I tried to call on old experience to pick them off one at a time. Consider, for example, new creatures the Arachnomorphs. If Hearts Of Stone marks an evolution for the adventures to be had within the realms of The Witcher 3, then it also has heavy expectation for its players to evolve, too. ![]() Anybody entering the action at this point will have to have a certain comfort and experience with the mechanics of the main game, but new additions to the existing formula will cause you to find that your faithful strategies and tactics may not be quite so effective anymore. What impressed me in the early moments of this new adventure was just how lost it made me feel, despite being in very familiar surroundings. And once you dive into the action it’s pretty easy to see just why that is… With the challenge taken to new heights in Hearts Of Stone‘s ten-plus hour runtime, the developers make no qualms about aiming the expansion strictly at higher level players. Taking Geralt back to the northern areas of Novigrad, we find the Witcher tasked with killing a dangerous and seemingly immortal bandit captain at the request of the mysterious ‘Man of Glass.’ What follows is one of Geralt’s most treacherous adventures to date, lined with deceit, danger and – erm – weddings. The set-up is simplistic enough, given that it is taking place in a world of magic, myth and endless political turmoil. No surprise, then, that the opportunity to dive back in for a brand new story expansion seemed like too good a chance to pass up. But with so much success already piled into the game’s original state, could this expansion really add anything worth paying for? The game was truly remarkable and – to this point – has continued to surprise and amaze me with just how much content remains to be found, even hundreds of hours after I first re-took control of Geralt of Rivia. At no stage since The Witcher 3 released have I gone more than about five days without playing it at least once. ![]()
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