There's not rel freedom of choice at all. A real choice in a mature game of a grey world might do the main character have sreious doubt about what he really feel inside. The way how CDPR has manged the "romances" is far away of being hard and complex for those who only play the games and those who have read the books. Making such openworld-RPG has been a poisoned challenge for CDPR wiriters in order to concilate both options and make Geralt's decision be as harder as his life is.
Summon of Geralt's feelings in TW1 with no previous book read or aknowlodge of Sapkowski's Stories.
A man wakes up, his memories have disappeared, but not his feelings. He knows who deeply loves a sorceress, and when you open your eyes a beautiful redhead sorceress cared for him, she says know him very well, and she demonstrates him a clear appreciation. 2 + 2 = 4
Any character (from the worst enemy to the best friend) contradicts this view of man. He trust the redhair girl, she must be the sorceress who his feelings remember, so he give those old love feelings to her with any hesitation. Some flashes appears in his mind about a raven black woman... another sorceress. No feeling reactions, No dubts. No quetions. He goes on with the redhair as his true love he knows he has loved before losing his memories....
Summon of Geralt's feelings in TW2 with no previous book read or aknowlodge of Sapkowski's Stories.
He lays with the redhair for a months. Despite the flashes recovering his memories about the black raven hair woman, no doubts araise in his heart about his feelings and the woman whom he gave after awake in Kaer Morhen, despite memories start to tell him that those old feelings wer for another sorceress, not for the redhair. No confusions show. No inner debat, no avy conversation with redhair about what's happening (a unknown conversation take place in a boat, but player is nor informed about the real content, a content given by the same woman who has no objection to supersede the old sorceress in the man feelings).
Summon of Geralt's feelings in TW3 with no previous book read or aknowlodge of Sapkowski's Stories.
The man who lose his memories but nor his feelings recovers the first one. More than 20 years of memories suddenly fill his minds and, supposselly, links correctly with the feelings. In normal circunstance, the image of the old sorceress regaining her place in his memories and the shoc of be aware that the redhair woman was a mistake is missed, ignored. The fact that he must being admiting he maybe feels something strong for the redhair despite her lies is ignored. How is he reacts? Can any man live such situation a remains convinced about his true feeling without a doubts? No. But nothing of taht is showed. No a hint, a word.
Instead of that, we only know that he takes his horse and decide searching the old sorceress who was the original owner of the old feelings. She appears as a cold and distant manipulative woman (?) He finds her. No reactions. No conflicts. Then he meet the redhair once more. A kiss/no kiss in a party and the one who has doubts is she. He, after all was happent the las 7-8 months doesn't show any conflict. And she is so sweet and charming that nothing what happent in previous games has importance at all.
The man who lose his memories, but not his feelings doesn't give a hint to the player how he feels, you play Geralt, you must know what he feels. If not, don't add shallow romance opitons in his story like a A or B choice lacking all this info about his memories. Or simpliest. Don't make Geralt recovers his memories, the same memories he had in seven books. I cannot see the sense in the actual TW3 Geralt's emotional path if in the games Geralt ought to be a deepth grey character.
My IMO. There's no anti-Triss or anti-Yen. There's a lack of thorough explanation of Geralt's emotional situation from CDPR.
