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I wish being able to own your own property was part of the main game.

best dlc of all time, toussaint is where we alll want to be

A Perfect DLC. It is a concice Very well written and incredebly beautifull expansion on the base game. 10/10

It gets pretty repetitive after a while, especially with the cookie-cutter side quests, but easily one of the most memorable and expansive DLCs ever made and a favorite of mine.

Hearts of Stone better tho


Plusy: genialna nowa mapa, fajna fabuła, świetna muzyka, fantastyczny dubbing
Minusy: brak

Easily the best expansion I’ve played.

Фантастическое дополнение к и без того отличной игре. История с большими контрастами, на первый взгляд светлая и игривая, но с течением времени глубокая и темная. Мир прекрасен, саундтрек потрясающий и наполнен эмоциями. Диалоги такие же потрясающие, как и в основной игре, и я не думал, что они смогут сделать отношения более значимыми, но им это абсолютно удалось.

Me parece peor que hearts of stone pero sigue estando bien

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.

Phenomenal, honestly like it a bit more than the OG Witcher 3, though both are incredible

Quasi un gioco completo per durata e varietà di quest.

Je le trouve meilleur que le jeu de base, déso mais courir après un vampire tueur c'est mieux que de courir après une gamine (qui ok a un gameplay stylé mais ça s'arrête là) + régis le goat

Another amazing Witcher 3 DLC !! And longer that H&S - much longer. Only issue I got was that "yellow" scenery. They literally put level of yellow too high. I couldn't play on PS4 and LED TV and shelved. Returned on PS5 (with enhanced version of W3 and LG CX OLED and finished then. "Yellow" level was the same imho but OLED handled that very well.

Dobré doplnění příběhu.

Jakbym miał wybrać grę, w której chcę żyć do końca życia to bym się nie zastanawiał długo.
P.S. Syanna bądź moim hersztem <3

cd projectin yaptığı en iyi iş oyun dlcleri çıkarmaktır change my mind

Trop belle da sur la nouvelle région, bien meilleur scénario que le jeu de base, contenu énorme bref qu'attendre de plus, si c'était un standalone ce serait mieux que l'original

Пробежался кабанчиком, вообще не впечатлило, до этого дропал два раза. История скучная и неинтересная, персонажи блеклые, не запомнил вообще никого, также нет ни одной мемной фразы. Получилась какая-то солянка, взявшая всего по чуть-чуть, но не развившая ни одно из направлений до конца. Перешли из фентези в сказку - потеряли фентези элементы и не дожали сказочные, из сказки там только ремейки тысячу раз объезженных братьев грим с несмешными изменениями. Ушли от реализма к гиперболе - потеряли атмосферу сеттинга ведьмака и получили пёструю клоунаду, за которой неинтересно наблюдать. Всё прохождение ловил себя на мысли, что могло получиться отличное dlc в духе сериальной игры престолов, если бы они оставили этот прекрасно переданный средневековый рыцарский романтизм и убрали дебильный сказочный сюжет.

Ganhei uma casa própria,muito foda

This review contains spoilers

some thoughts

- The best use of expansion in any game; they can totally make a spin-off game out of this.
- So beautiful and vibrant, with a darker tone in the story aspect.
- The Wine War quest line is incredibly tedious.
- That Geralt and Syanna scene kinda reminded me of The Creation Of Adam painting.

- The epilogue is feels somewhat cut short. after dealing with Dettlaff and returning to Corvo Bianco, you get a surprise visit and have a brief conversation with either your romantic interest or Dandelion – and that's it. like literally, just some dialogue that you can choose to ask. No celebration, no meeting with other main characters, no special cutscene.

Instead, they toss you back into the game to do whatever remaining quests or explorations you have left. At this point, I'm just nitpicking, but imagine if they included a gathering with other main characters, a feast, or some form of celebration. Geralt finally has a place to himself, a whole vineyard, with the possibility of retiring from the witcher life, venturing into the wine business (which the game hinted at) and just enjoying a peaceful life. Or, at the very least, having more than one person visit you at the end. it'll be soooooooo so much more satisfying.

- Best game and expansion of all time 🗣️🗣️

When your expansion is so big, that the main game becomes an actual expansion of your expansion.


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

Incroyable extension, la meilleure