, it’s also completely impenetrable. In this
Enhanced Edition, the developersadded several cutscenes to bridge this game with the first one that fail to do their job. There’s such a thing as starting a story
in media res, but
The Witcher 2takes it to ridiculous extremes.
You start the game fighting alongside some king as he goes to reclaim his ******* children from some rebels. You don’t know any of the characters. You don’t know the kingdoms and the different powers. And you don’t know why Geralt should care about any of the people around him. When this king gets assassinated you’re supposed to instinctually know just how big of a deal it really is. The game
tells you that redheaded Triss Merigold is important to Geralt, but I never felt any big connection between them because it never showed me their bond.