The Witcher 3 is one of the best war games there's ever been
Just sharing an article with you about war in the Witcher 3. I thought it was insightful and well written.
The Witcher 3 is one of the best war games there's ever been
He also goes on a tangent about Geralt has an homage to samurai that I'd never really considered.
Just sharing an article with you about war in the Witcher 3. I thought it was insightful and well written.
The Witcher 3 is one of the best war games there's ever been
The thing that The Witcher 3 does best, better than most other games, is war. This doesn't sound remarkable until you consider the huge number of games that are specifically about war - that make you do war and be in it - and that war itself never appears in The Witcher, at least not directly. We see battlefields and garrisons, occupations and barricades, but never open conflict. War is in a constant state of passing through, enormous and unseen, always at some distant proximity, but written into the land of The Witcher 3 and the people on it, in magic and misery...
He also goes on a tangent about Geralt has an homage to samurai that I'd never really considered.
Geralt stands apart from the world and everyone in it, freed from impossible choices. He's a brilliant creation, the perfect body in which to tour the no-man's murk of Velen and beyond - a powerful, neutral force, like a wandering ronin. In fact bits of Geralt - his tied hair and long swords, his spinning fighting style and that wolfish look - are so reminiscent of Toshiro Mifune, the star of Akira Kurosawa's samurai films, that you get the feeling Mifune must have been in CD Projekt's minds as they built their version of Geralt.