Don't worry that these vague descriptions spoil important events: they are simple examples of the obstacles every resident faces. In another, a corpulent spouse-abuser must find a way to love two different lost souls, each of which test the limits of his affection.

In one quest, you reunite two lovers, one of which is now a rotting hag, its tongue lasciviously lolling from its mouth. But the moments that linger are those that reveal the deep ache in the world's inhabitants.

Excellence abounds at every turn in this open-world role-playing game: excellent exploration, excellent creature design, excellent combat mechanics, excellent character progression. It is more than its thematic turbulence that makes The Witcher 3 extraordinary, actually. It's the way this incredible adventure portrays the personal tragedies and underhanded opportunities that such battles provide that makes it so extraordinary. That The Witcher 3 depicts the immediate brutality of battle in great detail is not a surprise many games fill the screen with decapitated heads and gory entrails. The series has always contrasted its world's physical glamor with its intrinsic violence, but never has that contrast been this uneasy, this convulsive. In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the sacred is always at war with the profane, and beauty is always at war with blood.

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