Oils can be coated on weapons to cause certain creatures to bleed profusely, or to take increased damage. Witchers carry a steel sword and a silver sword, as silver is naturally attuned to magic. Traps and lures can be set around the battlefield, ready to cripple, maim or incinerate those who unwittingly set them off. From shielding himself against damage to setting foes alight, or swaying conversations, there is always a rune for the job. Geralt makes use of runes, magical symbols which allow him to channel basic spells. Thankfully a witcher is armed with many tricks. Because in this game, potions can’t be quaffed mid-combat, adding to the amount of planning that players have to do before running in and swinging their swords.

So save often, because the game doesn’t autosave half as often as I wish it did, and sometimes it will autosave at the start of the action, meaning you have no time to make potions or drink them. Not as much in say, Dark Souls, but you will die. An unprepared witcher is a dead witcher, something that is highly evident on normal difficulty in this game. Witchers rely on oils, traps, spells and cunning to beat the deadly foes that are their quarry. No one trusts a witcher, those enigmas with vertical pupils and two swords.īut the truth of them is closely guarded: while witchers possess strength and senses vastly superior to those of normal humans, they are not superhuman as the myths would make out. And thus, many years ago, the witchers were born.įorsaking their humanity, witchers train to fight the monsters of the dark, roaming mercenaries that are shunned wherever they go, their visits to towns lasting only as long as there are monsters to be slain or curses to be lifted.

Where the fat, corrupt guards of cities ignore the pleas of the peasants and citizens, someone needs to rise up.

A world where graveyards need to be locked at night. A terrifying world where monsters have invaded from another sphere of reality and now lurk in the sewers and swamps. Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings takes the player on a dark adventure into a world of politics, racism, conspiracy and regicide.

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