• Sickday
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    284 months ago

    Sounds good to me. My only gripe is that I don’t think Ciri needs to go through the Trial of Grasses. She kind of already had well-established abilities (Elder blood) that made it easy for her to deal with most threats and we got to see that on full display in like half of The Witcher 3. Frankly, I had more fun playing with her abilities than I did with Geralt’s.

    • Steve Dice
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      14 months ago

      Also, wasn’t it established in lore that she couldn’t go through it because something something elder blood something?

  • Miles O'Brien
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    544 months ago

    I thought that was the expectation?

    They introduced us to a younger Witcher that the Geralt was training, Geralt’s story came to an end…

    It felt like that’s what they were intentionally setting up, a totally Ciri-focused next game.

    • @flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      104 months ago

      I’ve only played a few minutes of Witcher 3 so far and even I know Ciri is an apprentice to Geralt! I said to myself, “I don’t know who these people are yet but I guess she’ll be the main character in a sequel.”

  • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    194 months ago

    I’d be disappointed if they bought Geralt back tbh.

    The house you get in Blood and Wine felt like a retirement home. I completed it, quit the game in the house with Yenn. He’s done.

  • @Comment105@lemm.ee
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    134 months ago

    Because they can? Because it makes sense? Anyone questioning the choice has obvious motives.

    • @Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
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      24 months ago

      If by stunt you mean, “discusses how the character has been set-up as the natural replacement with games media interviewer”… then sure, stunt.

  • @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    614 months ago

    That and Geralt’s story got a natural end in Blood and Wine, and it would be stupid to bulldoze that.

    • @BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works
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      254 months ago

      That ending really left an impact on me. There was just something about it, having spent so many hours, seeing that ending made me just go wow

      • @Drigo@sopuli.xyz
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        264 months ago

        So true!

        I really loved the ending, and it would’ve been sad to see Geralts ending “undone” just because they wanted to make The Witcher 4.

        With that said, I do hope he makes an appearance.

  • Luffy
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    584 months ago

    Lets just wait for the backlash from the right for making the game woke by having a female protagonist

    • @seejur@lemmy.world
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      24 months ago

      I think this is one case that will bring everyone together, since I don’t know a person, woke or not, that hate Ciri.

      The only worry might be that they might write Ciri as a Mary sue, but so far CDPR writing dept has been top notch, so I am very optimistic about this

  • @Koen967@feddit.nl
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    514 months ago

    Feels like a logical next step for the series. She is Gerald’s apprentice Witcher and Gerald’s story got it’s ending.

    • Scrubbles
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      164 months ago

      End of blood and wine was basically his farewell anyway. He got his vineyard, his lover came to join, he was done