I’ve been playing the Witcher 3 a fair amount in the past
week, though due to work and youtube stuff I haven’t had a ridiculous amount of
time with it yet. Once I reached the larger overworld I immediately set to
exploring as much of the world as possible with no regard to my miniscule
level; and lo! I found a pretty interesting quest line that was level 24. So I
decided what the hell, let’s give it a shot. And somehow it worked, big assist
to NPC helper buddies. The quest reward wound up being pretty crappy since I was
so low level but it was really fun just being able to dick around 30-40 hours
past where I was supposed to be.
Eibhear Hattori, an elvish scumbag, wants you to help him
secure supplies so he can go back to being a smith, which apparently he’s
pretty good at. However he was forced into the dire trade of “Master of
Dumplings” (“mmm… tasty” says Geralt) and amusingly enough this has proven to
be quite profitable; however he grows tired, hence the initiation of the quest.
Eventually you wind up negotiating a la the Departed or something, but the guy
you’re negotiating with really isn’t that unreasonable so you kind of just
realize that Eibhear is a moron; regardless (I believe) you wind up fighting
about 6 level 24-25 dwarves, all of which could kill me in one hit. So I went
and cowered behind some boxes until the NPC guy did all the work. Hell of a guy
that King of Beggars assistant.
This then leads to a few amusing scenes and Eibhear
eventually runs, terrified, back to his shop. You meet him there and he keeps
whining for a bit; but suddenly has a bright idea (why wasn’t this the plan all
along?) to send you to Sukrus of Skellige; who you have to fight outside a bar.
Took a while for the NPC to actually load in so I just sat around for about 45
seconds. Fortunately fist fighting isn’t scaled to your level so I still
managed to kick Sukrus’ behind; and then we had a chat in the bar. Turns out he’s
just a super cool dude; way less of a douche than Eibhear himself. I love the
Witcher’s depiction of these kinds of characters that runs totally against the
standard generic oaf.
Anyway you help him out so that he eventually helps you out,
then you meet a guy who makes a Witcher 2 (and possibly book) reference, I
wound up just getting level 3 in Axii to make this go smoothly. After this
there’s a big rumble outside, but true to form the game provides you with more
allies so you don’t actually have to do anything. Foolishly I decided to try to
participate and died to the last guy when he had about 2-3% hp left or so (in
one hit naturally), then it took me a few tries to find a safe afking location;
but pacifism eventually won the day.
After bidding Sukrus good day I went off to see the smith
and collect my shit, unfortunately even though the quest scaled to level 24 the
loot didn’t and I wound with a level 2 “relic” sword that was worse than a
random drop that I found on the quest. It’s possible the sword is upgradeable
and it does look cool, but naturally this was a bit of a bummer; one that you’d
expect a douche like Eibhear to provide. However I still immensely enjoyed screwing
around with the game’s difficulty systems and unlocking a master smith super
early on for the hell of it. I’ll revert to an earlier save just so the sword
isn’t useless but this game’s pretty good; even if it seems like you’re
directed on a particular main route you can still dick around wherever the hell
you want and might even be able to finish elaborate questlines to boot.
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