The Witcher Review

By Chris Hudak

The which than which there is no Witcher.

Developer CD Projekt’s bleak, stylish The Witcher is, among other things, a sort of rude, jagged-edged anti-Hyrulian adventure – a poisonous, alchemic (and probably suppositorial) cure for the common optimistic high-fantasy cold, if you will – based on the short stories and books of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski,…

  • Dark, bleak style
  • Timed, anti-spaz combat
  • Convincing world
  • Heap-big load times
  • Some disjointed cinema/dialogue
  • Some glitches

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Chris Hudak
Chris Hudak

Chris Hudak is a writer, former San Francisco Zoo penguin recorder, frequent-flyer junkie, self-proclaimed lucid dream expert, poolshark-in-minnow’s-clothing, “student” of all things Japanese, borderline alcoholic (see “writer”), video-gamer-with-a-life, and moonlighting, kinda-sorta actor in his copious spare time.  He writes weird fiction, and contributes articles to Playboy, Wired, The Toronto Star, and whoever else has money.  Chris is the protagonist of the Harlan Ellison short story “Keyboard”—no, really—and someday wants a house in Walt Disney World.

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