I also support and really like this topic (had to register account, so I can write this post, my first on this forum), but - like it's been said - first post tells pretty much everything. I must admit, that despite being a big fan of The Witcher Saga and choosing Yen in the game, at first I hadn't notice this problem. Maybe it's because I read the books a long time ago and I just didn't remember that for Ciri Yen was as much important as Geralt. Thanks for making me aware of it, cause now I definetely agree that it's very important and should be noticed.
Me too, at first I thought everything was just as fine, even after finishing the game, but after thinking about it, reading other peoples opinions here and so on, it made me realize that maybe I am content with it, because I already know it from the books. I already know how important each one of them is for the other one and I transferred this onto the game. But if I look closely to the game and only to it, I begun to see some flaws.
I'm not following this forum on daily basis, so maybe I'm wrong, but I think that it'll be very hard to make CDPR explain their decisions. Especially that for now I can't see any way to change or repair it, even in incoming DLC's, cause - unfortunately - Ciri probably won't be involved in it's story. I'll probably expand it later, now I'm already late for work.
I think with some minor changes it could have a huge impact.
Just let Ciri and Yennefer call each other mother and daughter, it would be such a huge difference in my opinion.
Change those unnecessary dialogues where Ciri is doubting the reason why Yennefer was finding her. She always wanted just the best for her. Going to Emhyr and listen to him for once is not such a bad idea at all, Ciri is grown up and have to make her own decision now and Yennefer is letting her do that. She didn't force her to go to Emhyr, on the contrary Geralt can decide whether she should go or not.
My biggest wish though were that Ciri wants to be called "of Vengerberg", but only when Yennefer can hear it too
In my other -still closed-
thread we already talked about it a lot, but since it's closed, there was no place to talk about it anymore, so I wanted to take out the biggest problem (for me) and make it an own discussion. Of course a lot people think they already said everything they wanted to, but I thought also people outside of this thread would want to talk about it. It's a huge thread and I doubt so many people can follow it on a daily basis.
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could follow, past tense...
BTW, I can't go that link o reddit, you're sure it's correct? Or maybe just reddit is down at the moment?
The link should be correct:
https://www.reddit.com/r/witcher/comments/3hvqna/the_unfulfilled_love_between_yennefer_and_ciri/
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Hmpf...what could have been
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I also have the fear that with each day passing, the chance for changes is decreasing dramatically. There will come a day, when they say that's it, The Witcher Series is done and I fear that if we don't address the problems as soon as possible, they might be no more time so it can be addressed by CDPR, if they have the ressources for it.
CDPR said that they didn't plan to make an enhanced version, so that's already limiting our chances for ANY changes in the first place.
I really hate all this criticizing actually and that wasn't my intention in my other thread at the very beginning, I just wanted to talk and read what people think of this Ciri-Geralt-Yennefer relationship, since it was the first appearance in the games and they had such big roles in the books.
As I said once that thread was almost the only one that was pleasant to read, because every other thread was just about criticizing the game.
Especially since my thread got locked I don't know anymore what I can do to make them aware of those issues. As many others also mentioned, it's not like they have to rewrite half of the game to improve it by a lot.
I also doubt they did this intentionally, I think they just thought the same like any other book reader see it, they also already know how much the characters mean for each other, so maybe they just thought that it is good the way it is just like many of us did at first. Sometimes you miss the trees for the forest.
The problem is so obvious and yet I didn't saw it until I had finished the game after >70 hours (I am at 192 hours right now) and spending a lot of time here in the forum, so I don't blame them for not noticing it as well or maybe they just focussed too much on Geralt in this aspect, I don't know, but it would be shame, if it stays like this.
Now without a real RedKit we can't even mod such things into the game, even if we wanted, so our last hope is as always CDPR themselves.