The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings: Difference between revisions

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In April 17, 2012 the game was published on [[Xbox 360]] as an Enhanced Edition with approximately four hours of more content, and 33 minutes of extra cutscenes. The Enhanced Edition is also available for the owners of the original PC version free of charge either through the game launcher, or at [http://www.gog.com Gog.com].

 

* [[Adipose Rex]]: Henselt is fat. Goes well with his objectionable personality, though it certainly doesn't help explain his excellent swordsmanship.

** He is more [[Acrofatic]] as he is definitely more stocky than fat. Many soldiers say that Henselt was an accomplished fighter not shirking from any battle and turned to lavish lifestyle only recently.

* [[Affably Evil]]: {{spoiler|The Nilfgaardian ambassador Shilard Fitz-Oesterlen}} is very polite around various influential people and has civil conversations with them which show how well educated he really is on matters about the Northern Kingdoms. However, he is also [[The Chessmaster|very crafty]], tricking people into revealing crucial information simply by asking them a few seemingly trivial questions. He even has the guts to subtly taunt Geralt in King Henselt's camp about {{spoiler|Triss}} while talking about a statue with beauty trapped within, the significance of which becomes clear to Geralt only later in the story.

** Letho is surprisingly soft-spoken and polite compared to his thuggish, brutal appearance. He keeps reminding that he has no personal grudge with Geralt, and that he can avoid any conflict between them just by walking away.

** {{spoiler|Cedric}} becomes one as well.

* [[And I Must Scream]]: A truly horrible one happens to {{spoiler|Triss}} in the sequel, when {{spoiler|she's}} transformed into a tiny figurine. Subverted in that it's a state more akin to a coma, but yeah.

* [[Big No]]: {{spoiler|If Geralt doesn't save Sile from her [[Karmic Death]], this is the last thing she does.}}

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: At the end, Geralt {{spoiler|reunites with Triss}} and recovers the rest of his memory. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|regardless of all his past accomplishments, Nilfgaard begins its expansion into the now chaotic Northern Kingdoms.}}

* [[Blossfechten]]: Geralt seems to prefer the ''Pflug'' guard position as his default ready stance with a sword. Letho prefers the ''vom Tag'' guard instead.

* [[Bonus Boss]]: {{spoiler|Letho.}}

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: The dragon Saesenthessis {{spoiler|AKA Saskia. Depending on the choices that Geralt makes in the sequel, she can be freed of her curse, get mercy-killed, or left to be used as a tool for sorceresses.}}

* [[Dead Star Walking]]: {{spoiler|Foltest shows up in a lot of promotional materials, but he does not make it past the prologue.}}

* [[Difficulty Spike]]: The beginning of the game was so difficult they had to patch a tutorial in.

* [[Escape Artist]]: Iorveth.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: {{spoiler|When the Nilfgaardian Emperor Emhyr var Emreis finds out about ambassador Shilard's plan to assassinate Geralt in chapter 3, he sends secret orders to the Nilfgaardian captain in Loc Muinne to eliminate Shilard who in his view has become too reckless and has thus outlived his usefulness. This action has likely to do with Emhyr's close friendship with Geralt in the past, and Shilard even mentions earlier that Emhyr was moved to find out that Geralt had returned.}}

* [[Groin Attack]]: Geralt of Rivia can deliver these during quicktime brawls.

* [[Guide Dang It]]: It's not possible to completely finish the quest "From a Bygone Era" in Act 3, unless you decide to search a certain unassuming wooden shack near the Kaedweni camp in Chapter 2, and even then you need to know that the barrels behind it hide a cellar entrance. This is especially difficult to those who choose Iorveth's path, since this is the only thing of any interest on the other side of the wraith-mist apart from the main quest, and is possible to completely miss even if you take your time looking around the area you can never return after completing your objective there.

* [[Harder Than Hard]]: The game features an "insane" difficulty, which in addition to being the toughest difficulty in general in terms of damage dealt by enemies and such, also features [[Perma Death]] where if you die, all your saved games from that playthrough become inaccessible and you have to start over.

* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]]: Beating Letho in the first chapter leads to him getting the advantage on Geralt before sparing him.

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: An interesting version comes up on the Roche path. {{spoiler|It's against ''you'', Geralt, while you're reliving the last few hours of a kingslayer you recently killed.}}

* [[Horny Devils]]: The Succubus, of course.

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Geralt and Triss in the sequel. However, they have to stay involved when Geralt gets framed for {{spoiler|Foltest's murder}}.

* [[I Owe You My Life]]: {{spoiler|This is why Letho lets Geralt go during the first chapter when Letho gains the upper hand in the duel. It turns out that Geralt saved Letho's life while chasing the Wild Hunt in search of Yennefer.}}

* [[Jerkass]]: Prince Stennis. He's quite willing to give his ally, Saskia, to Henselt during the summit with Kaedwen, threatens and constantly demeans Geralt in all their conversations, and refuses to give up some blood in order to {{spoiler|save Saskia from being poisoned}}. Of course, {{spoiler|the fact that he's one of those possibly responsible for it}} probably had something to do with it.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Depending on your choices, the following people can get off without suffering any repercussions for their actions: {{spoiler|Loredo, Shilard, Philipa, Henselt, Dethmold, and Letho.}} And no matter what you do, at least some of them will get away.

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: {{spoiler|You get to kill what is possibly the last dragon in the world. Who is also Saskia.}}

** There are options to this action, though. Also, {{spoiler|it doesn't seem that the dragons are extinct; they've just mostly left beyond the borders of the known world on their own business.}}

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Oddly enough, Bernard Loredo, the commandant of Flotsam. Call yourself nonhuman and he'll disagree rather quickly.

** He does want Geralt to do his dirty work, though. Employing a nonhuman to hunt other nonhumans wouldn't make a very convincing argument.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: One of the reasons the ending received some criticism - it felt like there was so much more to do, even after everything the player had gone through.

* [[Shoot the Hostage]]: {{spoiler|A possible end for Shilard Fitz-Oesterlen.}}

** The same chapter features Geralt finding Balin's journal (curiously, split into parts found on three separate dead dwarves) in the rotfiend-infested mines under Vergen. It's a brief [[Apocalyptic Log|chronicle]] of what occurred in the mine, and ends abruptly with a mention of "Durin's Bane".

** One of the books that Síle de Tanserville is mentioned to have bought from a dwarven merchant in Flotsam is called [[Cthulhu Mythos|De Vermiis Mysteriis]].

** Also, Geralt asks if [[Action Girl|Ves]] joined the army by pretending to be a man, so her old father wouldn't have to go.

* [[The Stinger]]: The Enhanced Edition adds a scene showing {{spoiler|Nilfgaardian forces beginning their northern invasion.}}

* [[Take That]]: One to [[Assassin's Creed]], where in the prologue you can stumble upon the corpse of an Assassin who missed the haystack by ''that'' much.

* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Geralt has a group finisher where he kills three human enemies by throwing his steel sword on the first, his silver sword on the second, and killing the third one in close combat. He also has a finisher against harpies where he throws his silver sword and it stabs the harpy in mid-air, killing it.

* [[Tutorial Failure]]: The Witcher 2 has a rather lacking tutorial that fails to detail several in-game features properly, [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/5/25/ as put by] ''[[Penny Arcade]]''.

** Version 2.0 has remedied this via adding a tutorial section separate from the main story.

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