First of all, if this is your first time playing the Witcher 3 and you have a hefty PC or an Xbox One or Playstation 4, I recommend that you experience it there first. That being said, this is the best port I've seen to the Nintendo Switch. Ever. All of the NPCs still exist throughout the map. The sound is still in perfect condition. All of the DLCs come with the game, too! That's basically three games right there, considering the size of Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. And you know what's the best part? The game DOES NOT LAG in Novigrad. That's right. The Xbox and PS4 had a very hard time in that area on the map when the game first launched, as many may already know, but don't worry! On the Nintendo Switch, the game never lagged once while I strolled around the busy and bustling streets of the free city of Novigrad.
This port isn't perfect, however. Some cutscenes do stutter a bit, and the graphics and draw distance (there's frequent pop-in) aren't nearly as good as on the PC or even the other consoles. There's also a bit of a fuzziness to the entire game that's mostly only noticeable in docked mode, but that's probably because the resolution is only at 720p while docked and 540p when in handheld mode. That being said, the graphics ARE surprisingly good (and the character and creature models remain untouched by this port). I believe that if you have never played the other versions then you'll probably be fine with it. After all, you get a MASSIVE game (I'm talking 200+ hours for a completionist playthrough and ~150 for a comfortable one) that can now be taken with you on the go! I already own this game for the Xbox One, and I preordered it because of that very fact. It's portable!
The game came with all the accessories promised and arrived on my doorstep in just two days. Honestly, if you're having any doubts with buying this game, just go for it. You won't regret it in the slightest.
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Trained from early childhood and mutated to gain superhuman skills, strength and reflexes, witchers are a distrusted counterbalance to the monster-infested world in which they live. Gruesomely destroy foes as a profession monster hunter armed with a range of upgradable weapons, mutating potions and combat magic. Hunt down a range of exotic monsters from savage beast prowling the mountain passes to cunning supernatural predators lurking in the shadows of densely populated towns. Invest your rewards to upgrade your weaponry buy custom armor, or spend them away in horse races, fist fighting and other pleasures the night brings. |
Built for endless adventure, the massive open world of The Witcher sets new standards in terms of size, depth and complexity. Traverse a fantastical open world: explore forgotten ruins, caves and shipwrecks, trade with merchants and dwarven smiths in cities, and hunt across the open plains, mountains and seas. Deal with the treasonous generals, devious witches corrupt royalty to provide dark and dangerous services. Make choices go beyond good and evil and face their far-reaching consequences. |
Take the most important contract to track down the child of prophecy, a key to save or destroy this world. In times of war, chase down the child of prophecy, a living weapon of foretold ancient elven legends. Struggle against ferocious rulers, spirits of the wilds and even a threat from beyond the veil – all hell-bent on controlling this world. Define your destiny in a world that may not be worth saving. |
Built exclusively for next generation hardware, the REDengine 3 renders the world of The Witcher visually nuanced and organic, a real true to life fantasy. Dynamic weather systems and day/night cycles affect how the citizens of the towns and the monsters of the wilds behave. Rich with storyline choices in both the main and subplots, this grand open world is influenced by the player unlike every before. |
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So far I have purchased Witcher 3 six times. Half were gifts for friends. Still got my moneys worth. It is a steller fantasy game with a vast world with a wonderful story with amazing characters. You play as Geralt who is one of the least interesting characters in the game. In all honesty it is the side characters that really pulled me in. The Crookback Bog section with the Baron and Jonny are some highlights. Gameplay is more bland. Dodge, slash, magic, eat, and repeat. Block can be added with humans but is useless against monters. Its not bad but lacking compared to BotW in terms of gameplay. This is when I would talk about graphics and sound. The Witcher 3 is one of the best looking games when modding on PC today. The xb1x looks great, the PS4 looks good but suffers from fps drops like the og xbone. Then theres Switch. The Switch features dynamic resolution of 720 docked, but dips well below. On PC you can't even replicate it. The textures are muddy, the vegetation are poor, load times are long, and pop in is glaring, but this is all understandable seeing how this system only uses 18 watts. Less than a TV. But for me its the fps drops that bother me. The Switch is brought to its knees here. For those of us on PC we could tell you this game is less reliant on ram or vram and more on raw CPU and GPU performance. The Switch just can not stream data fast enough and the cpu is getting hammered in sections. There is little chance CDPR can get anymore blood from this stone with a patch. Update 2/20: there are a bunch of new graphics options. Most are interesting to play with, but two are really useful. Depth of Field can be turned off as it does give you a few extra frames and the resolution is sub hd to 720p max you may want to mess with. But a major game changer is Sharpening. It should be an option on everything. Typically on PC we use post effects to enable this on games under 4k. It boost clarity to an amazing degree with little hit to performance. Turn this ON HIGH. With this option it may be the prettiest game on the Switch. Thank you CDPR for these extras. So if you are playing docked only please come to your senses. 32gig cart is great and all, but this is by far the most expensive and weakest version. If you play portable or hybrid than the competition does not really exist. So by all means buy it. All my criticisms are still there and blurrier but... Its Witcher on the GO! It is one of the best looking Switch games and by far the most ambitious. Not to mention it is one of the best games ever. So go out to jury duty, weddings, trips, see family, hop on a unicorn with Yen, save some orphans, and kill some griffins.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2019
Hardware Platform: Nintendo SwitchEdition: StandardMedia format: PhysicalVerified Purchase
First of all, if this is your first time playing the Witcher 3 and you have a hefty PC or an Xbox One or Playstation 4, I recommend that you experience it there first. That being said, this is the best port I've seen to the Nintendo Switch. Ever. All of the NPCs still exist throughout the map. The sound is still in perfect condition. All of the DLCs come with the game, too! That's basically three games right there, considering the size of Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine. And you know what's the best part? The game DOES NOT LAG in Novigrad. That's right. The Xbox and PS4 had a very hard time in that area on the map when the game first launched, as many may already know, but don't worry! On the Nintendo Switch, the game never lagged once while I strolled around the busy and bustling streets of the free city of Novigrad.
This port isn't perfect, however. Some cutscenes do stutter a bit, and the graphics and draw distance (there's frequent pop-in) aren't nearly as good as on the PC or even the other consoles. There's also a bit of a fuzziness to the entire game that's mostly only noticeable in docked mode, but that's probably because the resolution is only at 720p while docked and 540p when in handheld mode. That being said, the graphics ARE surprisingly good (and the character and creature models remain untouched by this port). I believe that if you have never played the other versions then you'll probably be fine with it. After all, you get a MASSIVE game (I'm talking 200+ hours for a completionist playthrough and ~150 for a comfortable one) that can now be taken with you on the go! I already own this game for the Xbox One, and I preordered it because of that very fact. It's portable!
The game came with all the accessories promised and arrived on my doorstep in just two days. Honestly, if you're having any doubts with buying this game, just go for it. You won't regret it in the slightest.
This port isn't perfect, however. Some cutscenes do stutter a bit, and the graphics and draw distance (there's frequent pop-in) aren't nearly as good as on the PC or even the other consoles. There's also a bit of a fuzziness to the entire game that's mostly only noticeable in docked mode, but that's probably because the resolution is only at 720p while docked and 540p when in handheld mode. That being said, the graphics ARE surprisingly good (and the character and creature models remain untouched by this port). I believe that if you have never played the other versions then you'll probably be fine with it. After all, you get a MASSIVE game (I'm talking 200+ hours for a completionist playthrough and ~150 for a comfortable one) that can now be taken with you on the go! I already own this game for the Xbox One, and I preordered it because of that very fact. It's portable!
The game came with all the accessories promised and arrived on my doorstep in just two days. Honestly, if you're having any doubts with buying this game, just go for it. You won't regret it in the slightest.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2019
Hardware Platform: Nintendo SwitchEdition: StandardMedia format: PhysicalVerified Purchase
So far I have purchased Witcher 3 six times. Half were gifts for friends. Still got my moneys worth.
It is a steller fantasy game with a vast world with a wonderful story with amazing characters. You play as Geralt who is one of the least interesting characters in the game. In all honesty it is the side characters that really pulled me in. The Crookback Bog section with the Baron and Jonny are some highlights.
Gameplay is more bland. Dodge, slash, magic, eat, and repeat. Block can be added with humans but is useless against monters. Its not bad but lacking compared to BotW in terms of gameplay.
This is when I would talk about graphics and sound. The Witcher 3 is one of the best looking games when modding on PC today. The xb1x looks great, the PS4 looks good but suffers from fps drops like the og xbone. Then theres Switch. The Switch features dynamic resolution of 720 docked, but dips well below. On PC you can't even replicate it. The textures are muddy, the vegetation are poor, load times are long, and pop in is glaring, but this is all understandable seeing how this system only uses 18 watts. Less than a TV.
But for me its the fps drops that bother me. The Switch is brought to its knees here. For those of us on PC we could tell you this game is less reliant on ram or vram and more on raw CPU and GPU performance. The Switch just can not stream data fast enough and the cpu is getting hammered in sections. There is little chance CDPR can get anymore blood from this stone with a patch. Update 2/20: there are a bunch of new graphics options. Most are interesting to play with, but two are really useful. Depth of Field can be turned off as it does give you a few extra frames and the resolution is sub hd to 720p max you may want to mess with. But a major game changer is Sharpening. It should be an option on everything. Typically on PC we use post effects to enable this on games under 4k. It boost clarity to an amazing degree with little hit to performance. Turn this ON HIGH. With this option it may be the prettiest game on the Switch. Thank you CDPR for these extras.
So if you are playing docked only please come to your senses. 32gig cart is great and all, but this is by far the most expensive and weakest version. If you play portable or hybrid than the competition does not really exist. So by all means buy it. All my criticisms are still there and blurrier but... Its Witcher on the GO! It is one of the best looking Switch games and by far the most ambitious. Not to mention it is one of the best games ever. So go out to jury duty, weddings, trips, see family, hop on a unicorn with Yen, save some orphans, and kill some griffins.
It is a steller fantasy game with a vast world with a wonderful story with amazing characters. You play as Geralt who is one of the least interesting characters in the game. In all honesty it is the side characters that really pulled me in. The Crookback Bog section with the Baron and Jonny are some highlights.
Gameplay is more bland. Dodge, slash, magic, eat, and repeat. Block can be added with humans but is useless against monters. Its not bad but lacking compared to BotW in terms of gameplay.
This is when I would talk about graphics and sound. The Witcher 3 is one of the best looking games when modding on PC today. The xb1x looks great, the PS4 looks good but suffers from fps drops like the og xbone. Then theres Switch. The Switch features dynamic resolution of 720 docked, but dips well below. On PC you can't even replicate it. The textures are muddy, the vegetation are poor, load times are long, and pop in is glaring, but this is all understandable seeing how this system only uses 18 watts. Less than a TV.
But for me its the fps drops that bother me. The Switch is brought to its knees here. For those of us on PC we could tell you this game is less reliant on ram or vram and more on raw CPU and GPU performance. The Switch just can not stream data fast enough and the cpu is getting hammered in sections. There is little chance CDPR can get anymore blood from this stone with a patch. Update 2/20: there are a bunch of new graphics options. Most are interesting to play with, but two are really useful. Depth of Field can be turned off as it does give you a few extra frames and the resolution is sub hd to 720p max you may want to mess with. But a major game changer is Sharpening. It should be an option on everything. Typically on PC we use post effects to enable this on games under 4k. It boost clarity to an amazing degree with little hit to performance. Turn this ON HIGH. With this option it may be the prettiest game on the Switch. Thank you CDPR for these extras.
So if you are playing docked only please come to your senses. 32gig cart is great and all, but this is by far the most expensive and weakest version. If you play portable or hybrid than the competition does not really exist. So by all means buy it. All my criticisms are still there and blurrier but... Its Witcher on the GO! It is one of the best looking Switch games and by far the most ambitious. Not to mention it is one of the best games ever. So go out to jury duty, weddings, trips, see family, hop on a unicorn with Yen, save some orphans, and kill some griffins.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2020
Hardware Platform: Nintendo SwitchEdition: StandardMedia format: PhysicalVerified Purchase
