I'd never heard of the video game, but I had heard of the books and I read the first of them recently. To be honest it was pretty uneven, but it had its moments. The references to Eastern European culture and mythology was a nice change from the norm. Geralt is a mildly interesting character, albeit not that likable. And while the main actor does a decent job here, in general the show suffers from bad pacing, too many boring characters, an impossible to follow timeline, and way too much political correctness. It's nearly as bad as the recent Star Wars trilogy in beating you over the head with "sensibilities." This simply wastes what was an interesting premise. On the positive side, the action scenes are pretty good. But beyond Henry Cavill, the acting is way below the level of GoT. And he doesn't get enough time because they're too busy with the boring minor characters. Sad how they just turned it into more vanilla fantasy.