The Bitcher
This thing starts like someone bootlegged a horny version of a fantasy epic after a long night on Pornhub and cheap wine, and honestly that’s the charm. You’re basically a bargain-bin monster hunter wandering a kingdom that feels familiar if you ever touched that famous white-haired guy’s games, but everything here is way more interested in tits than in politics. You roll into shabby villages, half-ruined castles, weird roadside shrines, and every place has at least one woman who either wants to fuck you, rob you, curse you, or all three in the wrong order. Sometimes you’re doing “serious” stuff like tracking some creature for coin, then you click the wrong dialog line and suddenly you’re in a filthy alleyway getting jerked off by a witch who was supposed to be an informant. The game kinda giggles at you every time you try to be noble.
What I liked is how often the “quests” just turn into horny accidents. You go talk to a merchant about overdue debt, normal RPG thing, then he mentions his daughter is “very grateful to heroes” and the choice pops up to either act like a decent human or go full dirtbag. I said I’d stay professional. Two lines later I’m balls deep on a haystack behind his stall while the dad pretends he can’t hear the moaning. Dialog is simple, sometimes broken on purpose, which weirdly fits. It reads like fanfic written by somebody who loves the original game but only remembers the sex cards. There’s a witch in the forest who absolutely feels like a bootleg Yennefer: she wants rare ingredients, you think it’ll be boring fetch stuff, but she pays you by riding you on a crooked table surrounded by candles that clip into her ass every time she bounces. I laughed and kept going. The sex scenes are not shy either, it’s all “I want your cock” and “lick me deeper” instead of some soft-core teasing, which is great, although once in a while the wording is so strange I had to stop and reread, like when a girl tells you to “hammer my secret chest” and I couldn’t tell if that was a metaphor or a bug in the text.
Under all the filth there are these little choices that come back later. You screw a tavern girl instead of paying for a room, and much later a jealous barmaid blocks you from getting info because she recognized your dick, not your face. You help a lesbian couple in the woods with a monster problem and you can either join their fun in a messy threesome or respect their thing and watch from a bush like a creep, and both paths actually tilt who shows up in the final scenes. The multiple endings idea is cute and also slightly cruel, because one of them basically punishes you for fucking everything that moves, but to reach it you have to fuck everything that moves. I like that the world keeps pretending it’s this serious kingdom with contracts and moral choices, while in practice you’re just speedrunning bad decisions with your pants half off. The pacing is a bit all over the place, like one quest is ten clicks and instant pussy, next one makes you run back and forth between a town square and some swamp like it’s an old Flash game, and I still don’t understand why the map icon sits one pixel too low on Chrome compared to Firefox. That tiny UI thing annoyed me more than any of the janky writing, and yeah, I’m still weirdly mad about it. But anyway, the whole thing feels like a dirty love letter to that famous fantasy series, written by someone whose main complaint about the original was “not enough naked sorceresses riding my face.”
Added: Jun 17, 2018 💬 2 🎮 1k