The Witcher 3 fans need to play this remake of a notoriously difficult 25-year-old RPG

My life as the Nameless Hero in Gothic 1 Remake has been nothing short of a disaster. I got robbed, beaten up (three times within the first hour), and insta-killed by tiny dinosaurs. After six hours of playtime, I am weak, broke, and traumatized. Naturally, I cannot wait to spend more time in this glorious hellhole. Gothic 1 Remake starts with a brief and somewhat overwhelming cutscene, wherein a gruff voiceover informs you that you, the Nameless Hero, are about to be thrown into the Valley of Mines, a no man's land enclosed by a magical barrier. Once you get in, you can never get out. But hey, at least you'll be given a grand quest to pursue: You must deliver a letter to the fire mages in the "Old Camp." Don't mistake yourself for a chosen one, however, as that letter is about the extent of your importance to the world. Despite the name, Nameless Hero is an unskilled nobody; this open-world fantasy RPG does not revolve around you, as I learned the hard way when a beaked, dinosaur-like scavenger bird murdered me with a single bite. This roughness, this brutality, is what captured my interest when I attended a Gothic 1 Remake event at Gamescom last year. I went home determined to pl