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the main game would probably even worse though judging by your opinion toward expansion. The heart of stone were supposedly the dev attempt to fix the writing and character, even by using slightly overdose reference from mythology and folklore. Of course B&W have much bigger scope and content than HoS..

What didn't you like about HoS? I liked the main bit but never bothered to go through with the side quests.

You haven't gotten around to it yet? Blood and Wine is amazing, finished it twice allready. I love the color palette of it, the design, well, all of it. It's all one could want from a proper expansion - and then some!

No idea how HoS is an improvement on writting when Geralt is completely stripped of agency and they strong arm you into a situation where you are just running errands for some hipster.

Gunther O'dimm wad really uninteresting as a villain, the romance plot with the doctor is very forcefully fed to you So when you choose not to do the romance options it just feels awkward like you do a lot of leading her on and just stop at the last second.

Well...Gaunter o'dimm is not just a hipster. As far as how a literal satan could be uninteresting villain, i dont know but at least Gaunter to me feels like a proper actually dangerous villain in most evil way in a universe where grey morality take precedence, unlike wild hunt or eredin. Wild hunt were supposedly inspired by the legend of Tuatha Dé Danann and fair folk but CDPR failed to execute it.

The Hipster was the Immortal guy.
Making your main villain the devil is a death sentence on your story, it won't offer a subdued or interesting villain just some smarmy fuck with vague super abilities, he never felt dangerous, just annoying.