The Wykydtron said:
Well, the main problem I have is that the world is trying so hard to be all "Grimdark" and "mature" that it just comes off as a bit... Forced? I suppose
Like how you can't speak to a single person without them swearing at you or how a lot of random NPCs seem determined to say "hey remember when we murdered/raped/kidnapped/set on fire/gave cookies to those random wimminz? Good times right!?" within earshot of the main character.
I love hate to make the Persona 4 comparison again, but that game managed maturity without throwing out more than 10 swears throughout the entire game and nudity was pretty much off the cards.
In comparison, Witcher 2 is more like a child screaming swears at people for attention
"Look how Grimdark I am! Shitcock, fucking fuckitty fuck nuggets i'm awesome!"
Though the gameplay is pretty good, the "moral" choices are decent and Triss is quite likable.
I do tend to call her "Trish" 9 out of 10 times though... God that would be awkward for Geralt during sexytiemz
Well, he does fill her "dark soul" with "light" on a somewhat regular basis...
If you've played the Witcher 1, you would know that TW2 pretty much follows suit and stays true to the original worldview of this universe. We are talking about a world where there are still monsters about, a huge evil empire that treatens to fully conquer the northern kingdoms(whose rulers are no angels themselves), racism abounds, magic exists etc. In short, a pseudo-medieval world where people do whatever they can to get by. The only innocence/good to be had lies in children and a select few(most of whom are in the first witcher game, the second one is darker because we are dealing with assassination and politics, whereas the first one had a more supernatural-folky feel to it).
The only things that are truly forced in Witcher are the sex cards from the first game or certain sexual situations.
The women in this game are treated as they would normally be in a patriarchal pseudo-medieval society.
