Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales Deserves a Sequel
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales may be all but forgotten about by now, especially amidst all the other tantalizing news from The Witcher’s IP lately. Branching apart from seminal source material influences, The Witcher has become a contemporary entity through Netflix’s current and upcoming adaptations, with the overwhelming popularity of CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunthaving a seminal hand in the franchise’s success. Indeed, Thronebreaker was yet another byproduct of that success, but particularly the success of its in-game mini-game Gwent.
Thronebreaker is phenomenal as a standalone title and expands upon The Witcher lore and Gwent gameplay in compelling ways throughout its narrative. However, CD Projekt Red has already explicitly and briefly confirmed that there are no plans for a second installment in The Witcher Tales, which extinguishes any potential hope for a Thronebreaker sequel from the mouths of the developers themselves. Thronebreaker may have reportedly failed to meet sales expectations, but it absolutely deserves a wholesale sequel due to its fantastic narrative and gameplay.
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Admittedly, if The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt players were not fond of Gwent, they will almost assuredly be disinterested in Thronebreaker. Gwent encompasses about ninety percent of what players will be engaged with in Thronebreaker as it lays the foundation for combat and puzzle encounters. Thronebreaker’s Gwent in particular is centered around a deck of cards that players are constantly updating and adding to after purchasing encampment upgrades, or adding new characters to Queen Meve's company. That said, fans of Gwent will immediately know its ins and outs and be able to
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