Even all the gulf between The Witcher 1 and 3 isn't enough to transform a fetid marshland into a bustling and exciting location. Like its predecessor, it's pretty bland and largely featureless. Just look at The Witcher 3's Velen – infamous both in the game and in the wider universe as a simply horrible place to spend any time in at all, let alone live.

In many respects, the Swamp is supposed to be a miserable place to be. Most importantly, however, is the fact that you won't be trapped there – I don't imagine that the remake will go exactly toe-to-toe with The Witcher 3 in terms of the breadth of its world, but just the ability to get out of the Swamp – to wander around Vizima, or go and spend some time in the lush grasslands of Chapter 4 – should alleviate some of the more crushingly tedious moments of that chapter.

You spend the entirety of The Witcher 1 on foot, but a bigger remake should leave room for Roach to get involved, making getting back and forth across the Swamp a much less time-consuming task. Loading screens shouldn't be a problem, and neither should traversal. This means many new players will lose out on the story’s narrative covered in the first trilogy.Now that The Witcher Remake developer Fool's Theory is moving to an open world structure, however, many of those issues are likely to be fixed. The Witcher is one of those older games that’s difficult to go back to after all these years. This will give old and new fans a much better experience than the original. Not only that, but it will also improve the original game, which was rather clunky. Many believe this remake will help the series feel like a whole instead of just two different games. The decision to build the game entirely from scratch in Unreal Engine 5 is a good call as it will keep the story in alignment with the new The Witcher Trilogy currently being worked on.

The studio was also involved in The Witcher 2 and now 3, Divinity Original, Sin 2, and Baldur’s Gate 3. For the most part, it’s being created by Fool’s Theory, a Polish development studio that has often given support to larger studios. The remake is currently in the early stages of development and is being built from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5.

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