The surviving witchers set out to find and reclaim it and punish everyone involved. The battle is won but the secret recipe for the mutagen, a substance required to create more of your kind, has been stolen. Kaer Morhen, the last remaining keep of the witchers, was attacked by a mysterious organization, just as you were starting to lick your wounds there. Suffering from amnesia you remember nothing of your past. You were given special training to be the best at what you do and your body has been enhanced with potent elixirs to help you do it. Besides, as Brendy discovered a few years back, Geralt's gaming debut could've been a whole lot worse.Your name is Geralt of Rivia and you are a witcher, that means you kill monsters for a living.

But it's an interesting origin for the series, and dove into the nitty-gritty of being 'a Witcher' in ways that would be streamlined out of later games. The years haven't been too kind to Witcher The First, of course.

'The game's creators have a tendency to not understand that while setting a game in a sexist world (as in, characters really are terrible bastards) is fine and actually worthy of praise, adding sexist mechanics (as in, whenever you sleep with a character you get a collectable card of them posing for you) undercuts any serious intentions you may have had.' It's also the version our old man Keiron reviewed back in the day for Eurogamer - praising the game for being a grand ol' PC RPG at a dark time for those games, while even then noting that its take on gender was a bit, well, naff. The version you're getting here is the Enhanced Edition, which added a good few new missions, fixed up a load of bugs, and amended the original release's dodgy localisation. A nuisance, but I have to imagine you're free to unsubscribe from those once Geralt has settled into your collection. You can claim it by going to Galaxy's 'recent' tab and clicking the banner, with the game appearing in your library 'after a while'.Īccording to this promo page, you'll need to agree to email updates and offers. Re-launched last year as a sort of library for all your other games libraries, GOG Galaxy is currently giving away the studio's break-out 2008 RPG for folks who download (or update to) the latest version of the client.

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