Although the mystery at the heart of the story is only shallowly buried, it remains a pleasure to dig up. At no point did it stop pulling me along, seducing me into pushing on to see the next set piece, face the next challenge, solve the next puzzle. I never stopped wanting to play Hearts of Stone. Too many add-ons just feel like padding, filler content, non-essential, missable an invitation to keep playing, without providing any motivation to do so. You didn't want to tick off another 45 fetch quests or collect another 150 figurines. Too many expansions and DLC packs add in more of the same, with the unfortunate consequence of making you realise you didn't want it. This is an elegant and unusual feat, and speaks well of CD Projekt RED's development approach and project management, but it's doubly impressive in that it manages not to be boring. Every time somebody made a reference to someone else having a stick up their arse, it was like coming home. The same loving fingerprints are all over it.
At no point do you feel like you're playing something developed by anybody other than the original creators.
The quality of the storytelling and mission design ranks alongside that of the main game.
That's not to say it feels like a missing piece, something that ought to have been in the main storyline from the get-go it is entirely discrete, telling a self-contained story with few ties to the rest of the game's content.īut despite its standalone nature, it's very much embedded in the world. At no point did it stop pulling me along, seducing me into pushing on to see the next set piece, face the next challenge, solve the next puzzle."Įxcept for the fact that Geralt's not constantly under a cloud due to the looming end of the world, Hearts of Stone feels of a piece with Wild Hunt. "I never stopped wanting to play Hearts of Stone. It's more than just a game like that, it's more of the same game. If you finished The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and thought to yourself "Dang, I wish there were more games like that," then Hearts of Stone is here to save the day. If you liked The Witcher 3, come on in to Hearts of Stone: the water's fine.
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