Colluding With Nilfgaard - On The Witcher 2
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The game’s characters, milieu, nomenclature, and overall mood are geriatrically tired. Our grizzled, taciturn, badass-but-with-a-moral-code hero is such a game commonality that he feels downloaded from some central-character database frequented only by game developers. Meanwhile, the “mature” quality of the story, upon which so many reviewers lavished such fulsome praise, seems to be based on the fact that the game’s “good” guys do lousy things and its “bad” guys have their reasons. Again, this is a modest step up from the Snidely Whiplashery of most video-game stories, but that’s all it is.
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Can we have Tom Bissell write about all the games? Please?
