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Witcher the enhanced edition4/13/2023 Each character you're talking to has a set refrain before you get to choose, and it often bears no relation to what's previously been said. The timing of conversations is an issue - especially when you loop back to the main conversation menu after an exchange. In the new version, they've use the word "child" - so the paternalism they were aiming for now comes across. To give one example, there's a scene in the original where the Head Witcher tells the others they should treat Love Interest Number 1 with more respect, before calling her "babe". The translation changes are subtle and welcome, and result in rather less foot-in-mouth moments. The character animations are far better, but it's a case them now being acceptable rather than impressive. The results are not exactly overwhelming. Apparently over 5000 lines have been re-recorded, plus there are extra character animations. It's like a Zelda who likes saying a lot.Īll that's been tweaked, thankfully. It was so distracting that when I played the original Witcher, I actually installed the Polish voice files and used the unedited full English subtitles - treating it like a foreign film. And the voice-acting was uneven, and the characters did that Neverwinter Nights thing of standing still and reciting their lines sinisterly, which made some scenes pretty much unintelligible. For reasons unknown - though it's easy to speculate - the original Polish dialogue was much longer and more detailed than the English translation. The second problem to be tackled head-on is the issue of translation. When the character has to bob in and out of hours on a quest, not caring that you have to do such a thing is a major boon for basic reasons of immersion. Only the first load in a session tends to leave you sighing, with the rest agreeably non-punishing. The biggest problem - long load times - has been dealt with to a significant degree. When released it was in a somewhat twitchy state, and the patches have done much to sort that out. And since The Witcher has already been reviewed, and remains mostly the same game I can concentrate my attention on the new stuff - what's changed and why you may be interested, even if you weren't before.Ī lot has changed for this single-character role-playing game, which is built around the popular (in Poland) Polish fantasy character of the title. The Witcher: Enhanced Edition has provided me with the latest in a long string of opportunities to be a dirty great hypocrite.īecause games are a cultural form I actually care about, the enormous bundle of stuff doesn't seem to be just extraneous guff. Because if a film is rubbish, who cares if it's got voiceover commentary by the entire cast's family? It's rubbish. I always despised the dual-mark DVD review section where they give separate marks for films and add-ons, with a similar sort of split shown in the actual reviews in terms of what they talk about. Not having read a film mag in years, I don't know if they still do this, but.
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