I never played the games but id heard of the books, i thought it'd be terrible or cheesey, but it was absolutely amazing the backgrounds were dynamic, the music... amazing and very fitting and the story... i never found myself wanting to turn it off, never got bored or wanted to look away and i thought it was so well progressed, it wasn't hard to follow the time jumps that happen, (it was weird as well as my mother actually told me to watch it), and thinks its amazing, (she has not seen or read anything about the witcher before) over all, amazing show.