abbayarra: I picked up the original version of The Witcher 1 quite a few years ago in 2017. I have not had a lot of time to play it as I have a family, a house, and two jobs. I slowly worked my way through chapter one over a number of months, the game had not been challenging. Then I ran into the final boss fight with the hellhound at the end of chapter one and bounced hard. I got absolutely crushed in the fight. I put the game down and did not play it for many years.

A couple of years ago I tried the fight again and lost hard. But then I did some reading and made a few changes to my tactics. First I switched to group style instead of fast and still lost.

A while later I tried again with updated tactics after finding out about the fight always happening at midnight. I added a thunderbolt potion and this time I did much better although I still lost.

A while later I tried again with updated tactics. I added a spectral oil and actually won the fight only to be surprised by the second fight which I was very hurt and lost.

This morning I tried again. I again updated my tactics with adding a swallow potion to the thunderbolt potion and spectral oil. I have improved my tactics and had gotten much better in using Aard and learned how to double click on direction keys to roll or jump out of trouble.

Today I finally beat this fight and now I can move on and explore the rest of the game.