Well effectively, it’s not on daily basis (or yr) that you just see a brand new customized story mod for The Witcher. Yes, the unique Witcher with the clunky fight and clunkier menus and questionable voice appearing that’s nonetheless fairly satisfying regardless of all that. This new journey is made in The Witcher 1 however takes place after the occasions of The Witcher 3. Geralt finds his method again to the outskirts of Vizima the place, as typical, there’s a homicide thriller to unravel and a monster to catch.
Apparently the Masquerade mod started its life yonks again in 2008 with the Ifirt modding group recognized for such different adventures as The Wedding and Merry Witchmas. It’s since modified fingers to a different group known as “Eler Creative” who launched it with a completely voice-acted Polish model again in January 2020. This week, Eler printed a model with English subtitles so the remainder of us can provide it a go.
Witcher 1 customized tales have at all times been fairly spectacular to me, wrangling that ungainly outdated game into new tales that usually succeed at telling a great Geralt story. Masquerade seems to be to be no exception. You can watch the intro beneath or watch a gameplay video posted by the modders.
Things kick off with Geralt sassing a ghost, as a Witcher does, however the job gained’t be almost that straightforward. The man whose ghost he met appears to be nonetheless alive, or at the very least a shifter sporting his face is wandering about. There have been murders within the outskirts as effectively, which the guards are eager to pin on the supposed shapeshifter, however as typical Geralt isn’t that fast to sentence the monsters.
Eler Creative say that Masquerade has references to movie noir, a number of facet quests, and “many secrets and curiosities to discover.” Based on the gameplay movies posted to the mod’s web page, Masquerade seems to be to have at the very least 5 hours of journey to deal with, possible extra when you don’t know the factor inside and outside as its creators do.
You can decide up the silver sword as soon as once more by discovering Masquerade on ModDB.
