Lead story designer on the first Witcher game just rolled credits on a full playthrough, and you can watch the whole thing on YouTube

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From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter “That was a very satisfying half of the year,” begin Artur Ganszyniec’s closing comments as the credits roll on CD Projekt’s original Witcher game from 2007. Five months prior, he took to YouTube to share a full let’s play of the cult classic RPG in a series appropriately called “The Witcher with a designer’s commentary.” The last episode just went up yesterday.If you’re a fan of the original Witcher RPG or the blockbusters that followed it, it’s a treasure trove of insights into the series’ humble beginnings. Ganszyniec was lead story designer on the original game and also wrote some dialogue here and there, and his video descriptions note, are all about “adding context to some design choices, sharing anecdotes, and providing behind-the-scenes.”The whole thing is 26 episodes, each around an hour or two long, so it’s easy enough to treat like a podcast you can throw up on a second monitor. As the first video in the series notes, it’s Ganszyniec’s first time playing the game in “almost 20 years.” Related articles Ambitious The Witcher 3 restoration mod adds yet more cut dialogue to the game, including a new Yennefer romance scene and extra choices for its most famous quest ‘This game could never be made by AI… it’s too human,’ says Baldur’s Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon after wrapping a playthrough on stream Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is PC Gamer’s GOTY because it ‘trusts’ players and takes them seriously, says Warhorse co-founder: ‘I think you can only eat so much popcorn’ The game has certainly aged—it was admittedly rough the day it dropped—but it was an ambitious game that’s easier than ever to play now with the overhauled Enhanced Edition. It’s overshadowed the