I don’t need to go on about it here, as this is more of a breakdown of the physical album, but Mikolai Stroinski, Marcin Przybylowicz, and Percival Schuttenbach have put together a collection of epic songs. If you’ve played The Witcher 3, you already know this. The award-winning soundtrack is legendary. The inner part of the tri-fold lists out all the tracks and credits. Geralt’s outline can also be spotted among the trees. The gatefold features a Leshen amid an ominous red-tinged background. A quick look on Discogs says that there is another variant with red and black vinyl for those of you outside the U.S. Personally, I enjoy colored vinyl as it shows less of the wear and tear of playing than on the solid black, so I have quite a few albums to compare. The colors here are solid, albeit pretty standard. The records are colored white (2xLP for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt), blue (1xLP for the Hearts of Stone DLC), and red (1xLP for the Blood and Wine DLC).
The Witcher 3 4xLP, released towards the end of 2017 via ThinkGeek byway Spacelab9, comes in a tri-fold cover that features some sinister artwork that reminds me a bit of The Witcher 2 art direction. Spacelab9 must have heard the commotion on social media because not only did they repress the soundtrack, but they also added pressings for the Hearts of Stone and Blood Wine DLCs. Now, I made a jest during my relatively recent review of Hero of Time that I was disappointed in the fact that the original pressing of The Witcher 3 was extremely limited and I wasn’t able to pick it up before it sold out online. It should only be appropriate that I pick up the soundtrack to another one of my favorite games of all-time, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. I recently reviewed the Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time vinyl pressing Hero of Time 2xLP and was blown away not only by the music but the artwork for the album. The vinyl record boom has resulted in an increase in videogame soundtracks being pressed.