The change in landscape, colour and vibe really sets this dlc apart from the base game and even Heart of Stone. While the main area is depressing, this new land is full of romanticism for knights and the virtuous. Perfectly contrasted by the evil (or so it seems) of the night terrorizing the city.
A great experience from start to finish that only really falls short when compared to Heart of Stone on the story department and some late game vampires show the fault in the combat system by being too fast when Geralt is unbearable to control.
Still a fantastic time with plenty of content, more than your average DLC.
A great experience from start to finish that only really falls short when compared to Heart of Stone on the story department and some late game vampires show the fault in the combat system by being too fast when Geralt is unbearable to control.
Still a fantastic time with plenty of content, more than your average DLC.
Daddy geralt
mto foda
Could have been a game itself, Blood and Wine is an absolute titan of an expansion.
Even though its main story isn't anything crazy, it's still interesting and the new additional characters are great.
Toussaint is the best map in the entire game, it's very big, looks gorgeous and there is a ridiculous amount content. I can sit here and talk for hours how insane the amount of content is, so many things to do, so many interesting side quests and storylines... it's honestly groundbreaking.
Last but not least, there are also some new armor sets and weapons which are pretty cool.
This is without a doubt the best expansion I've played so far.
Final Rating: "Excellent" ~ 9.5/10.
Even though its main story isn't anything crazy, it's still interesting and the new additional characters are great.
Toussaint is the best map in the entire game, it's very big, looks gorgeous and there is a ridiculous amount content. I can sit here and talk for hours how insane the amount of content is, so many things to do, so many interesting side quests and storylines... it's honestly groundbreaking.
Last but not least, there are also some new armor sets and weapons which are pretty cool.
This is without a doubt the best expansion I've played so far.
Final Rating: "Excellent" ~ 9.5/10.
Took a year break after the main game and the first DLC but getting back into the second one was easy, loved the plot and the new area. Didn't do that many sidequests as with the other two adventures but the main quests were probably the best ones out of the three
If this was a standalone game i wouldn't mind at all, but it's a DLC!!! CD Projekt Red really cooked on this one
Yeah, I don't get the hype around this one. It's great, easily on par with the rest of the Witcher 3, easily worth it since it's some cheap DLC content that lasts as long as some games do, and if you want to 100% it then double that even. But other than that it's nowhere near as compelling narratively as hearts of stone, the new map is as pretty as it is filled with some shit gameplay. Big focus of this DLC are the vampires, notoriously the worst enemies in the entirety of Witcher 3, some of them teleport, and some of them stun-lock you using gaming's worst hitboxes, the devs also added pseudo Far Cry 3 outposts, fucking why? Who wanted that? The story like I said, is pretty good, just nowhere as good as Hearts of Stone or the base game. It's just kinda more Witcher 3.
93/100
This review contains spoilers
Didn't expect the boss battle to be that hard. Glad to see Regis in this DLC and the new map was incroyable. Having your own house to share with your woman and friends? Yeah, our poor Witcher deserves that.
Better than the main game, in certain respects
Game #128: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine
Well, this is my favorite "West" game now. Most AAA companies can't even get close to what Witcher 3 offers in its DLC's side quests. It's just brilliant. Here is hoping to the new Witcher game will be as enjoyable as this one.
9/10
Well, this is my favorite "West" game now. Most AAA companies can't even get close to what Witcher 3 offers in its DLC's side quests. It's just brilliant. Here is hoping to the new Witcher game will be as enjoyable as this one.
9/10
Obviously DLC's get inflated ratings, who would buy the DLC if they don't like the game? But still, this is to me the best DLC ever. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous environment, serene, quaint, and more Witcher 3.
Toussaint looks so pretty it's dreamlike. Really liked the story and characters too, even more so than the base game !
REGIS PLS BE REAL UR A WALKING GREEN FLAG I CAN COOK AND CLEAN PLS JUST BE HERE I HAD ENOUGH IDC UR A VAMPIRE I LOVE YOU I'VE LOVED YOU EVER SINCE I'VE KNOWN YOU LOVE OF MY LIFE THE GUIDING LIGHT IN DARKNESS OF LIFE
Отличное дополнение к шикарной игре
Best dlc ever made but I'm still reeling from the motherfucking toad
Damn this is a good game. Immediately I’m drawn in by the absolute beauty of toussant. It gave me that fairy tale setting I craved with the base game tied in with just as riveting of a story. Then when it actually put me in a fairy tale? It was a done deal. That was something out of my dreams. My favorite game I’ve played this year, definitely in my top ten damn
The best DLC I ever played, and it helped solidify Witcher 3 as my favourite game. Most DLC usually continues the formula and doesn’t add much narratively, whereas this added a solid 15 hour campaign, which is more than some full games. I liked the updates, particularly the villa where you can show off your armours. And the vibrant green landscape provides a much needed change from the brown and grey base game.
praticamente um jogo novo em forma de DLC, vale muito a pena
novo jogo disfarçado em dlc, é você?
After it took me only a short time from heart of stone to blood and wine ( ok well... 4 years to be exact), I Finally got myself to sit down and play blood and wine, and holy crap I have no idea why it took me so god damn long to play this near perfect expansion! This expansion can easily be considered Witcher 3.5, and it would be hard for me to see you not love this expansion if you also loved the base game as well alongside heart of stone, with many aspects of the game just nailing the same feeling I had with the base game while being set in a much more high fantasy setting.
Story
Very amazing story, while I do think Heart of Stone's story is a tad bit better, it is still a story I will remember down the line with the grey line between vampires and humans, the friendship with Regis, and the connection between the sisters, while trying to consider who is the lesser evil, the vampire who is killing many for one girl, or the girl who is killing many for a personal rivalry. While it starts off as simple as can be with Geralt being contracted to kill a mysterious monster, it quickly turns into a much more complex story that has even Geralt question his moral compass as he further solves the mystery. Even with the best possible ending, it is impossible to have the pure fairy tale ending where everyone's problems are magically solved, someone has to take the noble sacrifice for those they don't even know. There are so many amazing questlines in this game, and even apart from the really amazing main questline like one where you enter a fairy tale, even the side quests are just as amazing as well, with great writing and even more humorous questlines like Geralt trying to deposit from a bank where he is declared dead. I love Heart of Stone, and I do prefer that expansion's main questline, but the one thing it was missing were the amazing sidequests that witcher 3 is easily known for, and blood and wine not only delivers but exceeds with some quests as well. I didn't do ALL the side quests as some were obviously there for power gain and would require more work than I would like, but I did the ones with story content as reward and I loved them all.
Characters
Easily some of my favorite. Base game of course had the best overall characters, Heart of stone had my favorite antagonist, but Blood and Wine had some of my favorite companions alongside Regis and the relation between the Anna and the sister. Regis especially my GOD did I love his character, as while he was a friend to Geralt, he also tried his damn to protect his other friend as well as a way to have a peaceful resolution, but no matter what he did, there are no fairy tale endings in this universe, and what regis did to help those he doesn't even know will forever be burned into my memory. The other characters as well were all just fantastic, and the only real complaint I would have is that I wish the main antagonist vampire would had been a bit more fleshed out, even though he has a fantastic backstory and character development, I feel like maybe a couple more hours with him would had fleshed him out to the same level as Gaunter O'Dimm was in heart of stone. Overall were an amazing addition to blood and wine, and easily had way more memorable characters in comparison, just not THE memorable character antagonist like mentioned. Lastly The story with Anna was just wonderful, and even if the ending splits depending on what you choose, the ending I got was the one I am very much satisfied with. Even her captain, side quest characters, other higher vampires and such were written so well, and I just hope witcher 4 has the same level of writing that witcher 3 and ALL of the expansions had previous.
Gameplay
Blood and Wine adds some new mechanics, mainly the usage of greater mutagens to utilize the new mutation system. The new system does change a ton for the build I was running, mainly when I grinded to get the freezing aard upgrade, which switched up how I played the game a bit. Apart from that the gameplay stayed the same, but of course I always loved more endgame witcher combat as that is when you not only start to utilize the upgrades more, but also utilize the potions, bombs and such which were essential when I played on Death March difficulty. Gameplay is still very strong for me from this game, and blood and wine improved it a ton as well. The new emphasis on vampires as well made the new encounters a ton of fun as well. I know people criticize the combat a ton for saying its too mashy, but I feel like if you play on the much easier difficulties is when you face that problem, but raise the difficulty much higher, you suddenly realize you can't just march head first into battles and actually require pre preparing and proper magic usage to deal with the harder fights in the game. Overall the gameplay is still super fun to play through, with of course some minor gripes I have with it, mainly lock on camera and the INSANE damage scaling of death march (seriously I would get 2 shotted by some rather small enemy mobs even with having quen on).
Music
Blood and Wine's OST is just insanely peak. Battle theme, Blood and Wine theme of course, The Slopes of Blessure, The Beast of Beauclair, On the Champs-Desoles , and ambience as you just explore were all just fantastic.
Last Positives/Nitpicks
- I love how vibrant and much saturation is in the world as you explore, making you realize how dark and dirty the inner plots and politics are in the world even as they try their hardest to mask it all.
-Death March Scaling is... insane at times
-Prayers Witcher 4 holds this bar that Witcher 3 had set (and launches in a proper state unlike cyberpunk)
-Greater Mutagens were a bit annoying to grind for, so I didn't dive too deep into the new mutagen system. Probably easy if I NG+ and found the mutagens naturally.
-I do hope the next game improves on the skill tree to have more unique abilities instead of stat increases.
Conclusion
Blood and Wine is easily one of the best expansions any game as ever had. I have finally finished all the main content from the game I hold so dearly, and after all of these years, can finally rest this game for whenever I do a NG+ run for the witcher 4 hype train or not. While the story was a tad bit lesser compared to heart of stone, having every other aspect just be better makes this my favorite of the 2 expansions. I will look at heart of stone as the best story and antagonist of witcher 3, but blood and wine has the best gameplay and companion of witcher 3.
10/10
Story
Very amazing story, while I do think Heart of Stone's story is a tad bit better, it is still a story I will remember down the line with the grey line between vampires and humans, the friendship with Regis, and the connection between the sisters, while trying to consider who is the lesser evil, the vampire who is killing many for one girl, or the girl who is killing many for a personal rivalry. While it starts off as simple as can be with Geralt being contracted to kill a mysterious monster, it quickly turns into a much more complex story that has even Geralt question his moral compass as he further solves the mystery. Even with the best possible ending, it is impossible to have the pure fairy tale ending where everyone's problems are magically solved, someone has to take the noble sacrifice for those they don't even know. There are so many amazing questlines in this game, and even apart from the really amazing main questline like one where you enter a fairy tale, even the side quests are just as amazing as well, with great writing and even more humorous questlines like Geralt trying to deposit from a bank where he is declared dead. I love Heart of Stone, and I do prefer that expansion's main questline, but the one thing it was missing were the amazing sidequests that witcher 3 is easily known for, and blood and wine not only delivers but exceeds with some quests as well. I didn't do ALL the side quests as some were obviously there for power gain and would require more work than I would like, but I did the ones with story content as reward and I loved them all.
Characters
Easily some of my favorite. Base game of course had the best overall characters, Heart of stone had my favorite antagonist, but Blood and Wine had some of my favorite companions alongside Regis and the relation between the Anna and the sister. Regis especially my GOD did I love his character, as while he was a friend to Geralt, he also tried his damn to protect his other friend as well as a way to have a peaceful resolution, but no matter what he did, there are no fairy tale endings in this universe, and what regis did to help those he doesn't even know will forever be burned into my memory. The other characters as well were all just fantastic, and the only real complaint I would have is that I wish the main antagonist vampire would had been a bit more fleshed out, even though he has a fantastic backstory and character development, I feel like maybe a couple more hours with him would had fleshed him out to the same level as Gaunter O'Dimm was in heart of stone. Overall were an amazing addition to blood and wine, and easily had way more memorable characters in comparison, just not THE memorable character antagonist like mentioned. Lastly The story with Anna was just wonderful, and even if the ending splits depending on what you choose, the ending I got was the one I am very much satisfied with. Even her captain, side quest characters, other higher vampires and such were written so well, and I just hope witcher 4 has the same level of writing that witcher 3 and ALL of the expansions had previous.
Gameplay
Blood and Wine adds some new mechanics, mainly the usage of greater mutagens to utilize the new mutation system. The new system does change a ton for the build I was running, mainly when I grinded to get the freezing aard upgrade, which switched up how I played the game a bit. Apart from that the gameplay stayed the same, but of course I always loved more endgame witcher combat as that is when you not only start to utilize the upgrades more, but also utilize the potions, bombs and such which were essential when I played on Death March difficulty. Gameplay is still very strong for me from this game, and blood and wine improved it a ton as well. The new emphasis on vampires as well made the new encounters a ton of fun as well. I know people criticize the combat a ton for saying its too mashy, but I feel like if you play on the much easier difficulties is when you face that problem, but raise the difficulty much higher, you suddenly realize you can't just march head first into battles and actually require pre preparing and proper magic usage to deal with the harder fights in the game. Overall the gameplay is still super fun to play through, with of course some minor gripes I have with it, mainly lock on camera and the INSANE damage scaling of death march (seriously I would get 2 shotted by some rather small enemy mobs even with having quen on).
Music
Blood and Wine's OST is just insanely peak. Battle theme, Blood and Wine theme of course, The Slopes of Blessure, The Beast of Beauclair, On the Champs-Desoles , and ambience as you just explore were all just fantastic.
Last Positives/Nitpicks
- I love how vibrant and much saturation is in the world as you explore, making you realize how dark and dirty the inner plots and politics are in the world even as they try their hardest to mask it all.
-Death March Scaling is... insane at times
-Prayers Witcher 4 holds this bar that Witcher 3 had set (and launches in a proper state unlike cyberpunk)
-Greater Mutagens were a bit annoying to grind for, so I didn't dive too deep into the new mutagen system. Probably easy if I NG+ and found the mutagens naturally.
-I do hope the next game improves on the skill tree to have more unique abilities instead of stat increases.
Conclusion
Blood and Wine is easily one of the best expansions any game as ever had. I have finally finished all the main content from the game I hold so dearly, and after all of these years, can finally rest this game for whenever I do a NG+ run for the witcher 4 hype train or not. While the story was a tad bit lesser compared to heart of stone, having every other aspect just be better makes this my favorite of the 2 expansions. I will look at heart of stone as the best story and antagonist of witcher 3, but blood and wine has the best gameplay and companion of witcher 3.
10/10
New map, great new features such as mutations and grandmaster armors. Lot of new quests and the most important- new map. Toussaint is breathtaking. The way this dlc link up with the books of the Witcher is also great. Story and side quests are brilliant. 10/10 DLC.
Proper expansion, honestly could have been a standalone game in the same vein as Fallout New Vegas, you're looking at 25 to 40 hours of playtime here. That is a standalone game. The side quests here all have that proper Witcher flair with great storytelling and comedic or dark themes, a gorgeous landscape that contrasts the base game perfectly. Tons of new items, armor, weapons, Gwent cards, even consumables, a large map full of content and character to explore. Memorable characters new and old, including possibly my favorite Witcher character ever. I won't say his name for any people here who are from the books and don't want a spoiler, but you'll know him when you see him. Get it. No reason not to if you even slightly enjoyed the base game. Plus it gives a satisfying and fantastic conclusion to the series that brought a tear to my eye.
melhor dlc que já joguei em toda minha vida, uma dlc q é praticamente um jogo novo, tudo dessa dlc é sensacional, literalmente tudo! 10/10 fácil.
When your expansion is so big, that the main game becomes an actual expansion of your expansion.
CDPR was like "listen... yea sure the fans love the base game. but here's more" and hit us with an additional 20ish hours of amazing characters, quests and more gwent. the vibrancy of Toussaint creates such a different tone, even if i am killing some of the same monsters and retrieving a different item for someone. hats off to CDPR for this master piece
The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine DLC is an exceptional addition to the renowned RPG. It transports us to the vibrant and scenic region of Toussaint, offering a refreshing change from the main game’s darker settings. The plot centers around a fearsome beast causing havoc in the region, and Geralt’s quest to uncover the truth leads him to a superior vampire named Detlaff. The story is filled with tension, drama, and a dash of humor, making it one of the most engaging narratives in gaming history. The expansion provides around 20 to 25 hours of gameplay, featuring captivating characters and intriguing side quests. Despite some parts being slightly monotonous, the overall narrative experience, especially the multiple endings and plot twists, more than compensates for it. Blood and Wine showcases CD Projekt Red’s knack for creating a compelling and comprehensive DLC that’s worth every cent.
killing голую вампиршу and drinking вино
Melhor DLC de todos os jogos
Throw a grouchy aging Slavic man into a new country, a blend of France, Spain and Disneyland and watch him grimace his way through a delightfully fun, humorous and violent adventure. The Witcher III's best bits, the exploration, the detective-work, and the monster killing, are all honed to their best here.
The main game's grim dark fantasy is replaced by palace intrigue, vineyard industry politics, and vampires. It’s so wildly out of left field for a game like The Witcher III that it’s all the more breathtaking how killer the execution is.
The main game's grim dark fantasy is replaced by palace intrigue, vineyard industry politics, and vampires. It’s so wildly out of left field for a game like The Witcher III that it’s all the more breathtaking how killer the execution is.