Imho that ending is the only ending where Ciri isn't pushed into a particular direction but instead decides her own fate while knowing her possibilities. So in that regard I liked it more than the Witcher ending.For me the Empress ending is the most depressing one, even more so than the "everyone dies" ending.
Mostly because I'm still not sure wtf just happened and why it happened and you can't talk to any of the characters to find out about it.
For me the Empress ending is the most depressing one, even more so than the "everyone dies" ending.
Mostly because I'm still not sure wtf just happened and why it happened and you can't talk to any of the characters to find out about it.
Imho that ending is the only ending where Ciri isn't pushed into a particular direction but instead decides her own fate while knowing her possibilities. So in that regard I liked it more than the Witcher ending.
I dunno. I liked the Empress epilogue, but I still think The Witcher epilogue was put together better. It may have been short, but it was also sweet. It also just felt much more climatic (at the cost of interaction, which I'm personally fine with) than Ciri going off with the Nilfgaardians.
How does the Witcher ending fit with your love interest endings though? It does fit with solo Gerald, but what about the other two?
Geralt just teaches Ciri everything he knows and goes to live happily ever after with either Yennefer or Triss. It works just as well as the Empress ending.
@willow Is it not extrmely clichèd though?
@willow Is it not extrmely clichèd though?
Well the same could be said about the empress ending. Voorhis even points this out while Ciri talks to Emhyr for the first time. The prodigal daughter returns, having saved the world, to assume her rightful place on the throne. She gives up her freedom to serve the people yaddayadda.
I didn't think so.
It seemed to me that it was nicely ambiguous while being a "happy" ending. Geralt and Ciri would have a lot of trials and tribulations in the future together. Being a Witcher is no picnic after all and Emhyr might discover she's alive (unless he's nice and dead like in my games). Likewise, it\'s nice and simple since it has just Ciri and Geralt together as daughter and father.
No pomp, no ceremony.
Just two people who love each other in a tavern contemplating the future with a graduation gift.
But it's not cliched because Nilfgaard is not the good guys, and Emhyr is not the loving father. It breaks convention by having the hero(ine) "join the dark side", instead of fighting Darth Vader, so to speak.
Obviously Voorhis cannot aknowledge this since he doesn't perceive Nilfgaard as evil.
But it's not cliched because Nilfgaard is not the good guys, and Emhyr is not the loving father. It breaks convention by having the hero(ine) "join the dark side", instead of fighting Darth Vader, so to speak.
Obviously Voorhis cannot aknowledge this since he doesn't perceive Nilfgaard as evil.
How does the Witcher ending fit with your love interest endings though? It does fit with solo Gerald, but what about the other two?
Imho that ending is the only ending where Ciri isn't pushed into a particular direction but instead decides her own fate while knowing her possibilities. So in that regard I liked it more than the Witcher ending.
Well ok, but the clichè variety of that line of ending would be Ciri going back to her nice and peaceful disney-style realm after having overcome the baddy etc. etc. Maybe a prince charming of some kind (Voorhis does not qualify methinks).While I don't categorize Nilfgaard as evil or the bad guys but rather as just another party in this war, I see your point. I guess a lot depends on just how you choose to interpret both the events laid out before you and Ciri as a character. While it really unrealistic that Ciri is going to change anything in Nilfgaard there have been enough examples of her being THE EXCEPTION(tm) that I wouldn't put it past the universe that she changes both Nilfgaard and Emhyr for the better.
I don't think so. She's just angry and sad about having to leave Ger+gang. Angry with herself even for "betraying" them.Huh? She hates that. You can't just rely on the words read her emotions. Watch it again and you will see how mad she really is about it. But in the witcher ending there is nothing but pure joy in her face.
Besides, rohirrim7. The only difference between Witcher vs Empress is that she chooses E, while in the W ending she simply couldn't make the choice (as Emhyr has lost the war/is fudged).
She chose not to see Emhyr after I told her he was a manipulator.
Well in that case you chose for her, which is worse.