Were CD Projekt RED to remake The Witcher – its first ever RPG – the result would be much the same.
Sure, you could replace The Witcher 1’s pirouetting, mouse-and-keyboard combat style with a more modern dodge ‘n’ block system, in line with The Witcher 3.
The same ambition that makes The Witcher 1 such a fuzzy story experience eventually led CDPR to master the art of branching narrative in the sequels.
Yet the precise, purposeful plotting that would define later games is absent in The Witcher 1.