A CD Projekt Red developer has admitted that the team "overused" Geralt's Detective-Mode-esque Witcher Senses in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, while pointing out that it was at least novel for its time.
The Witcher 3 is largely (and correctly) considered to be one of the best RPGs of all time, standing next to giants like Mass Effect, Dragon Age, and, more recently, Baldur's Gate 3. As great as it is, though, it's not a perfect game and certainly does have its problems. I don't tend to agree with the complaints about its combat systems, but one hill I will die on is that The Wild Hunt really overuses Geralt's Witcher Senses.
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For those that mercifully don't remember, The Witcher 3 lets players tap into Geralt's aptly named "Witcher Senses" to follow clues left around the environment and work towards finding monsters, people, and everything in between. It was basically just the Detective Mode from the Batman: Arkham games, but felt way less intuitive and was generally considered a nuisance whenever it popped up - which it did often.
As reported by GamesRadar+,...