What I loved most about the first expansion for The Witcher 3, Hearts of Stone, was how it it wasn’t afraid to play with its characters or poke fun at itself. It eschewed the serious, often grim storylines of Wild Hunt for situations more reminiscent of an 80’s sitcom than a fantasy RPG, and showed us a lighter side of series hero Geralt. After spending a few hours with the upcoming final expansion, Blood and Wine, I’m glad to see that it seems like the team at CDPR are taking that idea and running fast and far with it.
Blood and Wine finds Geralt taking on a contract to slay a beast in the southern duchy of Touissant, a massive and entirely new location far to the south of the original setting. Easily as large as No Man's Land or Novigrad, the so-called Land of Love and Wine feels as though it's been torn directly from the pages of a storybook (as many of its quests and characters have). If the swamps of Velen or rocky coasts of Skellige were modeled after winter in Britain or northern Europe, Toussaint’s fields and vineyards are the south of France in summer, where picturesque castles dot the idyllic countryside and knights hunt giants to win the hands of maidens fair.
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Blood and Wine finds Geralt taking on a contract to slay a beast in the southern duchy of Touissant, a massive and entirely new location far to the south of the original setting. Easily as large as No Man's Land or Novigrad, the so-called Land of Love and Wine feels as though it's been torn directly from the pages of a storybook (as many of its quests and characters have). If the swamps of Velen or rocky coasts of Skellige were modeled after winter in Britain or northern Europe, Toussaint’s fields and vineyards are the south of France in summer, where picturesque castles dot the idyllic countryside and knights hunt giants to win the hands of maidens fair.
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