

This is a cultured place, filled with chivalric knights and steeped in that tradition. Blood and Wine is set in Toussaint, a Gaelic-themed region famed for its wine, and at its heart sits the city of Beauclair. Once or twice we felt like CDPR could have taken a leaf out of BioWare's book and edged it with more inclusivity, but you can always argue that it stays true to the fiction on which it's based, and for some that's just as important.īut we're getting ahead of ourselves. Tonally the series continues to venture close to the line, and it's clear that it has been built with the male gaze in mind. This add-on includes more content than some full-priced tripleA titles, and the quality of that content is as excellent as what we've seen in the base game. Whereas Hearts of Stone featured new characters and a fresh questline the burrowed through existing locations, Blood and Wine opens up an entire new region for players to explore. Last year's Hearts of Stone was a decent expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, but its successor, the vampiric Blood and Wine, is altogether more substantial than its predecessor.
