I played on an Xbox One S. I got the game in March 2019 after getting The Witcher 3 in 2017 and playing that game multiple times through 2019 (I still play it.) I played The Witcher 2 in March of 2019 before getting to Flotsam and quit. Then, on a whim, I started my second (first complete) game November 24th 2020 and played on Dark difficulty. It was awful. Finished the game on December 4th and got the Dark Achievement, one of 0.97% of Xbox One players to do so.
This game is probably only good to play on PC based on what I've heard versus those playing on PS4 and Xbox One (and based on my own experience.) The Steel/Silver Swords rarely did damage to any person, creature, or animal, even the most basic person/creature/animal. Even with the best swords and best enhancements: little to no damage; really only worked on Harpies and Insectoids. I had to use bombs and then the further in, bombs stopped doing damage. Then it was all magic, basically, in most of Chapter II and all of Chapter III. The only thing that killed Wraiths were Grapeshot Bombs. I found that hilarious. My Silver Sword did 0% damage to Wraiths. The dragon killed me a lot. Took me hours to figure out what worked and the timing of how and where to move. The actual fight took 45 minutes using Igni, which was the only thing that did damage. On soldiers I ended up using Axii a lot until the last part of Chapter III where Axii no longer worked on soldiers. Originally I planned on killing Letho but ended up just letting him go 'cause if my sword didn't work, bombs stopped working, and apparently magic was barely working anymore...what was the point in trying?
The main story and many of the side quests were perfectly fine as stories go but the rest just made me hate the game, overall. I read about other gamers playing on Normal on PS4 and Xbox that had similar problems; so really they all should have just played on Dark to get the Achievement because it seems it was Dark on all difficulty levels for us. Death March (with everything one can turn off turned off, which is how I played it) was easy on The Witcher 3 compared to Dark for The Witcher 2. I had fun with that game. If I didn't have the digital version of The Witcher 2, I probably would have broke it to pieces. It was unnecessarily difficult.
This game is probably only good to play on PC based on what I've heard versus those playing on PS4 and Xbox One (and based on my own experience.) The Steel/Silver Swords rarely did damage to any person, creature, or animal, even the most basic person/creature/animal. Even with the best swords and best enhancements: little to no damage; really only worked on Harpies and Insectoids. I had to use bombs and then the further in, bombs stopped doing damage. Then it was all magic, basically, in most of Chapter II and all of Chapter III. The only thing that killed Wraiths were Grapeshot Bombs. I found that hilarious. My Silver Sword did 0% damage to Wraiths. The dragon killed me a lot. Took me hours to figure out what worked and the timing of how and where to move. The actual fight took 45 minutes using Igni, which was the only thing that did damage. On soldiers I ended up using Axii a lot until the last part of Chapter III where Axii no longer worked on soldiers. Originally I planned on killing Letho but ended up just letting him go 'cause if my sword didn't work, bombs stopped working, and apparently magic was barely working anymore...what was the point in trying?
The main story and many of the side quests were perfectly fine as stories go but the rest just made me hate the game, overall. I read about other gamers playing on Normal on PS4 and Xbox that had similar problems; so really they all should have just played on Dark to get the Achievement because it seems it was Dark on all difficulty levels for us. Death March (with everything one can turn off turned off, which is how I played it) was easy on The Witcher 3 compared to Dark for The Witcher 2. I had fun with that game. If I didn't have the digital version of The Witcher 2, I probably would have broke it to pieces. It was unnecessarily difficult.