It instantly feels new right from when you boot it up. I'm 70 hours into a playthrough. Some reviewers see wrong, there is an instant noticeable difference in visuals. I see the difference and it's not small, though I am stuck with Yeniffer in a small area'd mission and now doing a ciri mission. Hard to tell just of yet. Picked the worst possible place to loose all my stat points. Small details and textures are massively improved. Yen and Ciri even look more advanced. Infact Ciri looks odd now, like it's not her which is weird and I don't find the change to be appreciated. Everything is brighter and has a shean to it. Foliage is just better looking. The physics feels different or maybe it's the controls. It definitely looks like it could have come out post RDR2. I gotta wait til I'm off this mission and compare all the screenshots I've taken once I can TP around to see them side by side.
It's not exactly a new game but there is a definite punch to it's visuals.







