I've been wanting to play this game for a while...

Are books actually any good?

it's not bad but imo if you find it boring you may as well lower the difficulty. Even the highest difficulty isn't actually hard because your abilities are so busted, you just have to beat on enemies for longer.

>is it just a meme to discredit a game that was critically acclaimed and popular?
You nailed it. Game is great user I hope you enjoy it. I wouldn't listen to the people hyping it or the people shitting on it, make your own opinion.

I very much enjoyed it, despite the combat being boring and repetitive.

combat sucks. couldn't even finish it for the story. Even on death march, all you have to do is quen, spam left click and spam side step whenever anything looks like it's about to hit you. don't even need quen. just spam sidestep. braindead trash

only you can know that, people either love them or hate them. personally i thought they were great.

It's fine.
I beat it on Death March, things only get hairy when you're fighting multiple difficult enemies at once.

He's a witcher he hunts monsters. And it's not just typical go here kill this go back. Fucking retard.

>spam left click and spam side step whenever anything looks like it's about to hit you.
You're thinking of Dark Souls.

It’s not terrible but there’s nothing fun, interesting or challenging about it. It’s busywork in between the real reason to the play the game, which is the characters, world and side stories. I think TW3 is overrated but I’d still recommend playing it.

Story is worth playing it. Especially the Heart of Stone expansion, that shit will be graved in my memory for a long time.

I have completed the main story, but unistalled it. Do you know if I need to have it installed for the DLC?

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it's worse than dark souls. at least dark souls has a stamina bar (except 3) and you have to time your rolls somewhat.
In this shit, the moment you get 5/5 fleetfooted, you basically can't die, no matter the difficulty. The only time I struggled even a little was at the very beginning of the game when I was figuring it out. After level 10, I don't think i died a single time on DM.

Well yeah, that's how DLCs work.

No.

fook

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Based and redpilled.
The Witcher 1 is top kino.

>idiot quit when he saw what the quest log says instead of actually trying the quest out
It doesn't have a single stereotypical fetch quest or anything that basic. Every single side quest even is a completely unique story.

The combat sucks though in my opinion.

I heard that Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen is better.

It's up to you to make the combat enjoyable. You can stat into sword skills that let you walk through encounters spamming one or two buttons or you can stat into magic and potions, or a combination of, making combat more engaging.

Otherwise everything else is a blast. One of the largest and nicest universes I've explored.

That game is only good for running around and killing shit. There are little to no story quests and the ones that are there are just generic fetch or escort mission with a cutscene screwed on. I'm not even sure you can call it an RPG.

This. Witcher only gets the circlejerk it has because of the r*ddit "pc masturr rayce" crowd who jerk off to graphics and nothing else.

I played for 60 hrs 2 years ago. Couldn't put it down. Bought the GOTY. Never beat it. Never played the dlc. Got wrapped up in soulsborne and never picked it back up.
I really want to 100% it, not trophies, but playthrough, but I can't bring myself to do it.
Someone help me and OP to stop shitposting and just do it.

Wrong. It's an incredibly well written narrative

As others have said it's servicable but for me servicable in a 30+ hr game just wasn't cutting it. It's so fucking dull and the hitboxes are awful. Couldn't get into it.
The Witcher quests sucked balls though, he's right. You literally just go in a zone, hold your Witcher senses and then click all the shiny objects. It's the most repetitive shit. They could've actually been fun if you had to figure out what the monster is and how to kill it yourself by doing research in the Encyclopedia or whatever and matching clues like a monster detective or something but instead Geralt just tells you what it is and you just follow the braindead quest marker.

nah, the game's story expected me to care about ciri way more than I did because I've only had like a 5 minute interaction with the twerp and reading her bio came off like a deviant art OC character.

>Someone help me and OP to stop shitposting and just do it.
kino music and wenches
youtube.com/watch?v=2bAsyGvAlpc

Download either Ghost Mode (better for a first playthrough): nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/992/

Or Enhanced edition:
nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/3522

You're welcome.

Everything about the way this game presents itself is pretty much 10/10, with the story, atmosphere, music and graphics. However the gameplay is such a boring slog that it kinda ruins the whole game for me. To answer your question; the best thing I can say about the combat is that it works, but it's ultimately mindless and unsatisfying and not something I ever look forward to. It's still a good game though, just highly overrated.

Whoever told you that is a liar. That game is fucking garbage.

>Dragon's Dogma is fucking garbag-

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Its fine.
It has better combat than most games like it, including Skyrim and Breath of the Wild.

Its mostly Nintendo fanboys shitposting it anyways and they dont exactly know what quality is.

Bruh, if you think that ciri is the crux of the game you missed out
Turd, poo? I forget his name. The little guy
Muh pan
Bloody baron ;_;
The faggot
The werewolf
The list goes on. It's very well written and the world of characters are hilarious and can give feels.

BotW has better combat, though, because you're only limited by your own creativity.

I don't know about BotW, but almost anything has better combat than Skyrim. The only games off the top of my head I played with worse combat are Bamham and DMC2.

Batman has good combat.

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The combat feels like it plays itself. I'm more of a fan of DMC or Soulsborne combat.

Have you ever actually played it? It’s shit

Yes, Dragon's Dogma has the best combat of any video game ever.

>muh movie game
boring

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No it doesnt. Botw combat is fucking garbage. Being "creative" just incites tedium and lowered optimization for killing easy shit. It even has garbage cinematic slow down. At leats the witcher also has rewards and actual content.

Try reading the first 2 (Last Wish and Sword of Destiny) to see if you'll like how Sapkowski writes. For me, those mentioned are really good while the Saga has its own moments here and there.

>I'm bad at the game: the post

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by 100 hours in i was slaying anything in my path. combat is pretty awesome. game is very slow and immersive. be prepared to play all day for three weeks. only way to put a dent and finish it. good luck! one the best games ever like seriously ever made

that's a meme

the combat is absolutely fine, BOTW has worse combat and that gets praised daily.

botw is fucking shit. you have a floaty side hop and a lame QTE flurry rush.

OOT had better combat.

The combat is terrible.

Imagine being so bad that you need to use your sword.

The gameplay itself is...a AAA game. That's not a compliment, it's entirely generic with no actual redeeming features and in lots of places is actively unintuitive or bad. There's no challenge or skill or depth to it and at absolute best the RPG and combat mechanics can be described as "Useable enough to get through the story", but no one would ever honestly claim they are good enough to actively enjoy engaging with, much less elevate the story or game in any way.

Basically, imagine a clunky 3rd Person Action Game from any generic, no-name studio, and then put a pretty coat of paint over it and set it in a Ubisoft open world where there's lots of environment to traverse, but nothing new or interesting to do anywhere you go.

That's The Witcher 3.

>this is good "combat"
Thats not combat at all, thats situational bullshit that 99% of players wont do because its easier to just hit him with a weapon. Fucking retard. You cant be bad at a patheticly easy game with unlimited healing and revives.

I'm saying Witcher 3 combat is more enjoyable than botw is. Why in the fuck does link have no roll, for example.

Imagine pretending physics gimmicks is even part of the combat and not just a time wasting gimmick for retards to pretend old game tech is interesting

The combat is genuinely terrible. I bought this game on release and have been trying to beat it since then playing a few minutes every few months but as soon as I get in combat a few times I get super bored.

literally the same shit as dark souls except in addition to a roll, you have a sidestep.

same. shit.

>Being this mad that you're bad at a children's game

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>Hasnt finished one quest
>I dont like the quests

Too bad that behind every quest in the witcher lurks a story

>combat is easy
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So you prefer rolling and juggling?

The combat is OK. The problem is that the game is far too long (over 100 hours) for such a simple combat system.

Rolling is for chumps.

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The combat isn't terrible, it's just mediocre.Anybody that says it's more or less is just exaggerating.

the combat is fine.

people just shitpost about witcher 3 because they don't like all the praise it got. a shame they are skipping a genuine 10/10 game.

Somebody post that webm of infinite spin comboing a dlc boss that's glitched on a pebble and can't reach you.

SHOCKWAVES
youtube.com/watch?v=jsCWy5wUs04

OPEN WORLD
youtube.com/watch?v=6BJ4s622JnQ

POLISH
youtube.com/watch?v=Uc6RnI47vTI

IMMERSIVE COMBAT
youtube.com/watch?v=m1wDSfBA474

EPIC FRIEND
Truly inspiring that you misrepresent and defend a shitty game for the sake of your console of choice.

Now fuck off.

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That's webm isnt even real, its looped.
He never uses any stamina, that boss doesnt stagger that often, and the damage numbers are wrong.

It's a meme they use because there's few reasons to actually dislike the game. Combat is good, and better than average with all the signs, potions, oils, and bombs you can use

It's not explicitly the combat mechanics, but the enemy design. Despite the attempt to sell the combat as some strategic Batman-tier prep time gameplay, the enemies are so fucking stupid with like two moves most of which are countered in the same manner.
It doesn't matter what you're fighting, you're going to kill it the same exact way. It's just FFXIII in real time, find out what staggers it and then slap its ass while dodging (or just using Quen, which is an unbalanced end-all to almost every single enemy) the same one or two attacks that are incredibly predictable because the enemies are practically on a cooldown rotation and don't act randomly or aggressive.
The difference between the Toad Prince DLC fight and every fucking enemy/boss in vanilla is night and day. It's like they suddenly realized how to make a video game for a split second.
TW3's combat is fucking embarrassing for more reasons than Geralt's mechanics, and it's beyond ignorant to think otherwise. The menu screens for example, just another contributor to the atrocious combat experience. How about the scale of enemies? There's no difference in fighting a Fiend than a Bandit. They practically have the same hitbox, and because of the camera angle and the improper scaling of the enemy models there's no perceivable size difference. It's like fighting an overgrown dog with a third eye whose skill is such a negligable bane that you'd be hard-pressed to find anybody who could explain what the fuck it does, because every enemy is a retarded non-threat.
And Death March does nothing to alter any and every technical shortcoming. It's just a numbers game, because that's what CDPR are; lazy faggots who aren't in the business of designing video games.
Stop apologizing for a bullshit company selling "an experience" and being content with their shit fucking design work. TW3 is absolutely one of the worst video games released this decade.

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Really warms my heart

>TW3 is absolutely one of the best video games released this decade.
Fixed.

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>no stamina usage
>no toxic drop off
>parries not registering

Alright autistic Nintendo fanboy.

>posted 265 times
Wew lad.

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>implying W3 isn't just spamming spin attacks

-e.

Dodge-Cancel,
One of the ancient Wolf School techniques,
Truly a pinnacle of action game design

SEE THAT MOUNTAIN, YOU CAN CLIMB IT
youtube.com/watch?v=UVgg1KgUhBM

Holy kek

You literally can't. Its a late skill on the skill tree, you fucking retard. It makes it such that you cant block and take full hits, can't dodge, and it drains all your stamina in around 7 seconds. The webm is complete bullshit.

It's not an action game.

Now THIS is bad combat in an RPG.

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So basically, the shitposting is mostly insecure contrarians that never even played the game? Good to know I guess. Maybe Nintendo shit is more their speed.

GROUNDBREAKING PROJECTILE SYSTEM
youtube.com/watch?v=zQLY_jo5Ipg

you can stop shilling your channel now. we get it, you suck at games.

SHOCKWAVES
youtube.com/watch?v=xpOcHj9C2Fo

ADVANCED ENDGAME COMBAT
youtube.com/watch?v=Ak6SXL1On9I

The combat is objectively good.

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>not even endgame, literally in the first zone
>playing on normal
kek, can you at least prove you beat the game?

>geralt uses spin move X3 on braindead fodder
>good combat

its OK. nothing ground breaking or anything. its funny how everything can kill you in 2-3 hits at the very begining if you play on death march but you become an unstoppable killing machine later.

Then what is it?
Implying that RPGs must be exclusively have numbers being the defining factor of combat is as shitty as arguing that dialogue trees = RPG.
The fact is that TW3 is an action game with some inconsequential minseries with the worst writing since, well, since anything Squaresoft/Enix have ever made. The combat is entirely separate from the narrative, and there's no other major gameplay element other than combat, so where's the RP gameplay to distinguish the core gameplay from being exclusively a shitty action game?
Nevermind that there's no argument against the shit design of the combat other than to deflect and pretend they were focusing on being a jack of all trades, like BotW tried to do.
The fact is CDPR makes movies, but they slapped together a more devolved combat system to add deniability so they can sell their terrible fanfiction for $60USD/$70CAD + DLC Expansions (Vanilla required) + Tip.
Fuck off with this defense of a "game" that spent more on marketing than designing the fucking thing. CDPR can suck my wrinkly nuts.
You know what the funniest thing is? I'd bet they couldn't design a game even if they tried. Like assuming they're not even trying, and just want to make overpriced movies, I imagine them trying to actually develop a video game and fucking failing, like how they did with The Witcher (1), which was almost scrapped and the company shut down because the fuckers literally could not program basic shit.

SHOCKWAVES AND ADVANCED ENDGAME COMBAT
youtube.com/watch?v=HEa7RjlLWRg

>Implying that RPGs must be exclusively have numbers being the defining factor of combat is as shitty as arguing that dialogue trees = RPG.

I never said anything about numbers

>The fact is that TW3 is an action game with some inconsequential minseries with the worst writing since, well, since anything Squaresoft/Enix have ever made. The combat is entirely separate from the narrative, and there's no other major gameplay element other than combat, so where's the RP gameplay to distinguish the core gameplay from being exclusively a shitty action game?
Huh, than why is the writing always praised? Square hasnt had good writing since forever, what crack are you smoking? I see you enjoy too much anime.

>there's no other major gameplay element other than combat, so where's the RP
But there is? Card games, commerce, contracts, events, there's places you can visit, you can sail, and the world has tons to discover, even hidden dungeons and secret Witcher armor.

>Nevermind that there's no argument against the shit design of the combat other than to deflect and pretend they were focusing on being a jack of all trades, like BotW tried to do.
BOTW is just a tech demo, it does nothing new except offer freedom, but at the cost of having unchanged content and shitty everything.

>so they can sell their terrible fanfiction for $60USD/$70CAD + DLC Expansions (Vanilla required) + Tip.
It was actually cheaper and worth every penny.

>Fuck off with this defense of a "game" that spent more on marketing than designing the fucking thing.
Who are you trying to prove this to exactly? No one fucking cares what you think. You are a "vocal" minority without a single leg to stand on. You are probably a fucking loser in person too.

>You know what the funniest thing is? I'd bet they couldn't design a game even if they tried.
See ya when Cyberpunk wins GOTY.

tendie is mad that someone called zelda gameplay shit. poor baby.

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GERALT USES SPIN MOVE FOR 100+ HOURS
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Lmao, is this for real?

I played with signs and potions build and heavy medium armor trying to avoid using Quen every 3 seconds. I'm now doing Blood and Wine for the first time at 4k 120hz gsync and it's pretty glorious, game really holds up and still looks good. Toussaint is fucking magical and I love just running around and taking in the sights. Lots of good sidequests too

Did you just reply to yourself?
He's using an endgame move on low level enemies. Low level enemies die fast to ANY attack and typically fail to block. The whole point of the swirling move is for crowd dispersion, it never works on any main enemy or something of the same level.

IMMERSION
youtube.com/watch?v=YToWdStRLkQ

Why do you link literally who videos? Did you not even play the game you keep making statements for?

Look at the sword swooshes through the air nowhere near his actual sword. Looks like this guy has modded his swirl attack to have farther reach, I don't remember it being anywhere near this effective even on lower level enemies, look at him hit guys really far outside his actual reach

That's a bug, likely. Never seen that before. Or its a unique sword with a proc. There are so many unique weapon stats, so I have no idea. You would know this if you played the game.

>I don't remember it being anywhere near this effective even on lower level enemies
Go try it right now, it literally cleaves off limbs actively.

witcher 3 is a legit 10/10 game

anyone shitting on it is either retarded or has awful taste. go back to your gacha games.

*Switch nogames
ftfy

The first game has the worst combat out of all three followed by the second game with it's constant rolling, but three is not that far off either atleast it's serviceable since you can ignore rolling completely in that one.

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This.

I don't give a fuck about nintendo. Witcher 3 is a legit great game, fuck fanboy faggots.

FULFILLING ENDGAME CONTENT
youtube.com/watch?v=Q6EkROH1BL8

except in darks souls the hit boxes actually work

Game's still beautiful, I remember struggling to run 1080p 60fps on high when it launched. Easily runs at 1440p ultra everything on a 1070 now

It's literally one of the first main story dungeons.
What the fuck are you trying to achieve here?

tw3 has good story and waifus, dd has good combat

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It's a story game. Some boss fights in the DLC actually make it a game. Play the main quest with only some of the witcher contracts and ignore all the open world content, it's shit and will burn you out. Then realize that the main story was very underwhelming and go and play the DLC and be blown away by the 10/10 content. Avoid sidequests in Blood and wine as well since that will also burn you out.

Have fun!

nigger

Being retarded. You expect the shitposter spamming videos to even look at them? He hasnt played the game.

See This isnt even endgame, this is literally a guy fucking around with the console commands in a low level area.

This isn't about being informative about its flaws, its about grossly exaggerating stuff that doesn't really affect the game significantly. Don't worry, he loves Breath of the Wild.

nah. rest of the game is good so an average combat system is considered a con in this game.

the gameplay is absolutely abysmal and the sidequests are worse than mmos, complete with "find 10 wyvern tails"

I picked up a 4k tv recently and it still runs very well on a 1080ti, just have to get rid off STLM for ruining the colour contrast

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IMMERSION
youtube.com/watch?v=9DyPXh5Txzo

It's combat is great. If anyone tells you it's bad the it's because they are shut at it.

If you want to just mash the attack button you will lose.

Retards and normies can't grasp the Silver Sword is for monsters and the Iron Sword is for humans.

Witcher 3 is the best rpg of all time

The haters are the same low skill trash wanting ez mode in Sekiro.

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it from the heartstone dlc, from the runewright
one of the runes adds reach for whirl

But the combat is fine. You can dodge and counter and parry and attack with ease.

Meanwhile, people jerk off over BOTW and it's shitty stab or side hop + flurry rush "combat".

Sexiest spinster in gaming

It's not terrible, just not very good or exciting

10/10 TOTALLY NOT SPAM
youtube.com/watch?v=1lFfuNibwbc

Right, I assumed as much. The DLC changes so much, like making AARD a frost attack.

ya sure above average then. But it tries to copy souls combat and fails so combat will always be considered average.

Nowhere in that post was BotW mentioned.

nice cherry picking

AMAZING LINK!
I always wondered why this board never shit on BOTW when it came out for having the worst combat.

How do all these videos you spam have zero subs everytime? Do you make videos across accounts? Jesus. Are you that autistic michael kid?

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GERALT ACTIVATES DAMAGE NULLIFICATION, GERALT USES SPIN MOVE
youtube.com/watch?v=DseVDd5nz9s

Just try it out and see it for yourself you faggot the game is so fucking cheap and you can also pirate it

Some retard is posting botw clips as examples of "good combat" when it's objectively garbage.

1/10 bait, youre gonna have to try harder than that friendo

>Cherrypicking

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Pirouette are for hot heads

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CIRI USES SPIN MOVE
youtube.com/watch?v=nVCkc2TuFNI

The combat of TW3 and BOTW are both pretty mediocre. But they have many other things to make up for it, especially the atmosphere and world exploration. It keeps both from being 10/10 games, but they're fantastic and I get hundreds of hours more out of them than games with better combat.

Open world level design is quite possibly the biggest meme in video games.
TW1 is the best Witcher game.

Imagine playing pokemon and all your pokemon only knew metronome (picks a random attack). That's pretty much what the combat in Witcher 3 is. Need to quickly slash an enemy to finish it off? Too bad, Geralt will do a triple somersault and twirl around for 10 seconds and target a completely different enemy that wasn't even on screen and is 50 meters away. Need to pick off a target that's just out of reach? Nope, Geralt's not gonna do his run and attack animation when you click, he's gonna stand there like a buffoon and swing at the air and the enemy will hit you and stunlock you to death. Every single fight is like this.

Ciri doesn't have a spin move. She doesnt get a skill tree since shes already OP. Keep posting though, you only look like a retard.

I think BOTW is inherently worse due to lack of rewards, story, and content in general. Its a cool sandbox in the same way that Minecraft is.

>Keep posting broken retarded combat
Ok
youtube.com/watch?v=-xekV0EcqEE

Based.

It lacks in story compared to TW3, but I think it's made up for by some extra things you can do like climbing shit and shield surfing.
I think what makes me like both games so much is something that people actually critique about the games. When you reach the end of the world and it says "you can't go any further", I actually like that. Instead of being in a bowl like Elder Scrolls or on an island like GTA, they felt more like a real world to me. TW3 especially I liked how they were separate open worlds, sailing off to Skellige felt more impactful since it was a drastic change in environment and culture of the people.

Did you made any gamma adjusting in-game?

All the DLC was amazing

ADVANCED COMBAT MOVEMENT
youtube.com/watch?v=FczDQe-P_sM

>Proceeds to post good combat

I did, i haven't touched it once since 2015 when i had a 1440p monitor

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it good

SPIN MOVE AT A CONSTANT 20 FPS
youtube.com/watch?v=CaCFhYos3Sg

you need to get good

ONLY ONE MOVE WORTH DOING IN THE ENTIRE GAME
youtube.com/watch?v=PjY8prGymZE

BEWARE MY ULTIMATE SPIN MOVE
youtube.com/watch?v=h4KFlWnPFdM

Witcher 3 with Jedi Academy tier swordfighting would be literally the greatest game of all time

Based and Forcepilled.

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what point are you trying to make user? most games give you op skills at high levels

BALANCED GOD MODE
youtube.com/watch?v=zzKTFtz6WOA

SHOCKWAVES
youtube.com/watch?v=eeVqebjUW3c

SHOCKWAVES
youtube.com/watch?v=QhjFafsKlTE

It's the best game of the decade.

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SHOCKWAVES
youtube.com/watch?v=JPXc8M5KMuY

Not anymore.

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SHOCKWAVES
youtube.com/watch?v=Ji_lILNRURk

SHOCKWAVES
youtube.com/watch?v=444HNbq6I2g

SHOCKWAVES
youtube.com/watch?v=P7k6P-KLZZo

ADVANCED MOVEMENT
youtube.com/watch?v=fZvCd6nAnuM