Thoughts of a book reader after finishing The Witcher 3
Here is a collection of thoughts I've had while playing the game (obviously a lot of spoilers ahead):
1- Where the heck is Kelpie? Ciri without Kelpie... It's like beer without foam. It simply cannot exist.
2- I'm rather disappointed by the fact that we didn't even get to meet Ihuarraquax, or any herd of unicorns.
3- More on that, I actually kind of expected the developers would send us toTir ná Lia at the end of the game for a little while, and make it the last "secret" zone of the game, maybe the size of White Orchard.
Up until the very end, I thought Eredin would flee to Tir ná Lia and Geralt would follow him there, and meet the unicorns, the human slaves... I thought it'd be a brilliant thing... Oh well.
4- Avallach. It was a bit weird seeing him around Ciri and the group that much, considering what we know about him. How he conducted the genocide of the humans on Tir ná Lia. I expected him to betray us until the very end. And in spite of the twist, he simply doesn't. He helps Ciri and the dwellers of this world despite despising them all. That's still kind of weird to me.
5- It seems CDPR has had a hard time fitting the entire story of Ciri and Emhyr into the games. I was shocked almost from the very beginning to see how everyone easily accepted the fact that Emhyr considers Ciri his daughter, like a perfectly normal father, as if there was nothing else to it. Notwithstanding the fact that he wanted to marry her, f*ck her, and have incestuous children with her.
That part of the actual story is never mentioned in the games, like it doesn't exist.
Despite Ciri still thinking up until the very end of the book series that Emhyr is only one of his many suitors. Is the fact he pretty much tried to rape her now okay to Ciri, Geralt and Yen? He's just her "dad" now?
Now I know an adaptation is just that, an adaptation, and it's not always possible nor wise to try to fit every element of a book into a movie or a game. But it still bothered me a little bit.
6- ...Which brings me to my next point, which is heavily related to the one I just made. Emhyr's wife that looks just like Ciri and pretends to be her so he can legitimately rule Cintra doesn't seem to exist in the games. He is, as far as we're aware, single, here.
7- I didn't like how I could sometimes not make it completely obvious that Ciri is Geralt and Yen's daughter. Adoptive, yes, but their daughter nonetheless. I felt weird when we/they P) were introduced as just "friends" for instance.
8- It was mentioned in another thread already (about the wild Hunt), but I'm going to write it here as well: the nature of the wild Hunt doesn't seem to be the same in the games as in the books. I should re-read them because I'm not 100% certain anymore, but I remember the Wild Hunt were specters, incorporeal wraiths in this world. That they could not travel entirely through dimensions with their flesh and blood like Ciri can. And that's why they want her. In the W3, The Wild Hunt seem to be "wraiths" only so Geralt can use the corresponding oil on them.
CDPR, please don't take this the wrong way; I absolutely loved all the Witcher Games. I cried and laughed so many times during the Witcher 3 specifically, it's already become one of my favorite games ever. You did an overall amazing job on it imho, but I'm still a nitpicker.
I actually wish I could write another post about how much I loved your game, but I know my words would never be able to do justice to what I feel about it. So... Yeah.
Here is a collection of thoughts I've had while playing the game (obviously a lot of spoilers ahead):
1- Where the heck is Kelpie? Ciri without Kelpie... It's like beer without foam. It simply cannot exist.
2- I'm rather disappointed by the fact that we didn't even get to meet Ihuarraquax, or any herd of unicorns.
3- More on that, I actually kind of expected the developers would send us toTir ná Lia at the end of the game for a little while, and make it the last "secret" zone of the game, maybe the size of White Orchard.
Up until the very end, I thought Eredin would flee to Tir ná Lia and Geralt would follow him there, and meet the unicorns, the human slaves... I thought it'd be a brilliant thing... Oh well.
4- Avallach. It was a bit weird seeing him around Ciri and the group that much, considering what we know about him. How he conducted the genocide of the humans on Tir ná Lia. I expected him to betray us until the very end. And in spite of the twist, he simply doesn't. He helps Ciri and the dwellers of this world despite despising them all. That's still kind of weird to me.
5- It seems CDPR has had a hard time fitting the entire story of Ciri and Emhyr into the games. I was shocked almost from the very beginning to see how everyone easily accepted the fact that Emhyr considers Ciri his daughter, like a perfectly normal father, as if there was nothing else to it. Notwithstanding the fact that he wanted to marry her, f*ck her, and have incestuous children with her.
That part of the actual story is never mentioned in the games, like it doesn't exist.
Despite Ciri still thinking up until the very end of the book series that Emhyr is only one of his many suitors. Is the fact he pretty much tried to rape her now okay to Ciri, Geralt and Yen? He's just her "dad" now?
Now I know an adaptation is just that, an adaptation, and it's not always possible nor wise to try to fit every element of a book into a movie or a game. But it still bothered me a little bit.
6- ...Which brings me to my next point, which is heavily related to the one I just made. Emhyr's wife that looks just like Ciri and pretends to be her so he can legitimately rule Cintra doesn't seem to exist in the games. He is, as far as we're aware, single, here.
7- I didn't like how I could sometimes not make it completely obvious that Ciri is Geralt and Yen's daughter. Adoptive, yes, but their daughter nonetheless. I felt weird when we/they P) were introduced as just "friends" for instance.
8- It was mentioned in another thread already (about the wild Hunt), but I'm going to write it here as well: the nature of the wild Hunt doesn't seem to be the same in the games as in the books. I should re-read them because I'm not 100% certain anymore, but I remember the Wild Hunt were specters, incorporeal wraiths in this world. That they could not travel entirely through dimensions with their flesh and blood like Ciri can. And that's why they want her. In the W3, The Wild Hunt seem to be "wraiths" only so Geralt can use the corresponding oil on them.
CDPR, please don't take this the wrong way; I absolutely loved all the Witcher Games. I cried and laughed so many times during the Witcher 3 specifically, it's already become one of my favorite games ever. You did an overall amazing job on it imho, but I'm still a nitpicker.
I actually wish I could write another post about how much I loved your game, but I know my words would never be able to do justice to what I feel about it. So... Yeah.
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