I don’t go around discoursing about video games, but if I was gonna make a Ciri game, I wouldn’t make her a fuckin’ witcher.
She can hop dimensions and teleport, for fucks sake there’s a much more interesting story to be had than what the trailer indicates they’re doing.
Really am not thrilled by this, but I’m still gonna play this slop and this is genuinely me being a weirdo about the lore and knowing what kind of potential her character has - “witcher” is the most boring thing they could’ve done.
But dont lump me in with the g*mers i dont care that much and i still adore ciri lol
Imo the decision to make her a witcher makes sense so long as the method used to give her mutations are justifiable. She wanted to be a sorceress like Yennefer and always looked up to Geralt as a witcher.
I do agree that they’re fumbling a bit to not focus on her ability to world hop tho as I really wanted to see the Arthurian legend through Ciri’s eyes.
I’m trying to remember if Ciri taking the witcher concoction is canon (the books) or fake (the game). It’s been too long to remember and I’m not reading all that again lol.
They should have just pissed everyone off and made a spin-off about Regis the Vampire.
As best I can recall (as someone who read all the books and played all the games), Ciri never underwent the mutations in either the books or the game. In one of the endings of W3, she becomes a “Witcher” but imo it was always implied that she was just going to use her own ludicrously overpowered abilities and didn’t really need the potions etc.
Yeh. If i understand matters witchers are one of the less powerful magical beings in the setting and are restricted by the high mortality rate of their profession and their very limited and specific skill set.
Geralt is an absolute monster of a combatant, but in the end he’s still brought down by a mob of normal humans (in the books).
Geralt’s role as “the witcher” separates him from normal society and forces him to be a rootless outsider so he can wander around giving the audience an outsiders perspective on the violences and prejudices of the world around him.
Putting Ciri in a similar role is a literary conceit. If they want her to wander around meeting weird people, helping them with their problems, and sleeping with them she needs a reason why she’s wandering the countryside instead of doing important elf princess of magical girl destiny stuff.
