May 18 2011

DIVERSION

OKAY so Witcher 2 activated yesterday morning. Since then I have been playing Witcher 2. It is a good thing I am my own boss or I might fire me.

It’s a pretty good game! Even so, being impulsive enough to play newly released games during official Work Time is bad and I will stop it, otherwise this week’s blog entries are going to be pretty sad and lonely.

Incidentally, if you’re getting Witcher 2, for goodness’ sake don’t put it on Hard. It is brutally tough in a quite unusual way. I’m quite concerned that there’s another difficulty level above this one. Jim from RPS says it gets a lot easier later on, which sounds nice; as it is I’m getting killed a bunch of times in every significant battle and I think I might be stuck on a boss fight.

On the plus side, I’m not sure I’d mind restarting on Normal even if I have to. There have already been several things I’d like to try doing another way.

RPS have just put up their review if you’re pondering.

2 Comments on “DIVERSION”

  1. I believe you can change the difficulty up and down at any time, so no need to restart. But yeah, it gets waaaay easier once you unlock some basic swordsman stuff. Upgrading Quen to damage attackers is a big help too – it stuns them too.

  2. Oh, cool! I might give that a shot.

    Part of my problem is that I don’t stop to level up when there’s something urgent to do. This game has huge blocks of urgency, running back and forth with life and death in the balance, so when I actually go to spend talents I’m finding I usually have five or so stored up.

    It’s the same story with equipment. The tough fight at the end of chapter 1 got a lot easier when I gave up, loaded a save from a while earlier and realised I could almost double my steel sword damage with a pattern off the blacksmith 😀

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