Nintendo are just all over the place. I would LOVE to own a Nintendo again - the problem is, to play all of the titles I would want to, I would need to buy multiple platforms, at least I think I would, which is part of the problem the gaming community has. I would happily fork out big bucks on a Nintendo console with DS/Wii/whatever else they have compatibility. The WiiU was a debacle (I was firmly among the "so what exactly is it?" crowd on it's release), and there have been so many versions of the DS with or without wifi, with a big screen, with no 3D, with 3D and a big screen but no wifi or whatever the former gaming giant only confuses the hell out of parents now looking to buy for their kids, and casual gamers are generally lost.

New console, with new Mario title, bundled. New Zelda title release separately, with a new Metroid, and a slot for DS titles. I would buy that day one.

Well, the usual fanboys are out in force it seems, hurling insults at the intelligence of anyone and everyone who - quite rightly - believes Witcher 3 has been somewhat overrated

"Ten hours isn't enough to fairly judge the game." What nonsense. Have games really become akin to modern art, where they cant' possibly be appreciated without a ten thousand word explanation justifying their existence? Oh ok then, I guess unless you have listened to every track on every Justin Bieber album ever you are in no position to judge his music huh. Nope, can't say he sucks until you have stuck it through 'til the end. He's the greatest musician alive; you have no right to say otherwise based on a few songs. See how that works? Same, ludicrous logic. Or maybe, just maybe, people "knows what they likes" and just don't like the game, which won't play any differently between ten and however many more hours.

Personally, I wanted to like it, oh so much. But, ha, call me crazy, but I always interpreted "open world" to mean "a world that is open." Maybe I'm guilty of taking things to mean exactly what they mean. Oh well, my shortcoming I suppose!

I haven't been overly impressed with it. It's ok. There, I said it. It's ok. Not the greatest game in the history of everything ever. Not ten out of ten. Maybe seven. It's very beautiful, to it's credit, to a point where I would say that, there are some locations which are exactly like how they should be - standing on the shore of a river feels exactly how it would in real life, which I happen to think is a monumental achievement; I often feel if I could be surrounded by the image it would be like being right there. Gorgeous.

But there feels like a certain level of 'mock depth' to the whole thing. And it has the whole gritty fantasy thing going on. As much as I love Game of Thrones, there is no way in hell I would want to live in Westeros, for example. When I play a fantasy RPG game, part of the immersion for me is thinking how I would like to be there, and how much fun it would be to explore. If I'm honest, I forced myself to play the game simply because I forked out fourty quid fior the PC version, and it looked incredible on my rig.

I truly wanted to njoy it.

I just didn't, all that much. 7/10 being generous, 6.5/10 being honest.

Extra half point for attempting to stand on the balcony at the beginning of the game to marvel and the bloody stunning vista and falling to my death almost immediately which I found highly amusing.