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Since the "Ciri ugly" complaints were too ridiculous they are switching to lore reasons
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I don't go around discoursing about video games, but if I was gonna make a Ciri game, I wouldn't make her a fuckin' witcher.
She can hop dimensions and teleport, for fucks sake there's a much more interesting story to be had than what the trailer indicates they're doing.
Really am not thrilled by this, but I'm still gonna play this slop and this is genuinely me being a weirdo about the lore and knowing what kind of potential her character has - "witcher" is the most boring thing they could've done.
But dont lump me in with the g*mers i dont care that much and i still adore ciri lol
Caring about video games is ok. The difference is that the point you're making isn't based on a genocidal need for erasure of certain people
I'm trying to remember if Ciri taking the witcher concoction is canon (the books) or fake (the game). It's been too long to remember and I'm not reading all that again lol.
They should have just pissed everyone off and made a spin-off about Regis the Vampire.
As best I can recall (as someone who read all the books and played all the games), Ciri never underwent the mutations in either the books or the game. In one of the endings of W3, she becomes a "Witcher" but imo it was always implied that she was just going to use her own ludicrously overpowered abilities and didn't really need the potions etc.
Yeh. If i understand matters witchers are one of the less powerful magical beings in the setting and are restricted by the high mortality rate of their profession and their very limited and specific skill set.
Geralt is an absolute monster of a combatant, but in the end he's still brought down by a mob of normal humans (in the books).
He is incredibly powerfull, but a mage specializing in combat magic wipes the floor with him.
Overall witchers seem to be jack of all trades, some useful magic, some very good close combat skills, some useful alchemic skills. But a witcher won't outmagic a mage, win a duel against some sword saint level fighter or brew better shit than some alchemist studying the craft for decades(granted, said alchemist wouldn't survive witcher brews).
I think that at this point its more like canon (the games) or fake (the books), or ultra-canon (the tv show).
Games are more canon than books at this point. Sapkowski didn't wrote anything even remotely good in this setting since 1996 and is now just old vodka-marinated hateful fossl that should just shut up.
If i understand the matter the games all take place after the books and build on the book's stories.
Obvious arc for any character that's lost their mysterious powers: they get their powers back. Maybe cope but I doubt they'd just do geralt-like abilities for her progression, she'll have some sort of unique mechanic
maybe it's a bait and switch and this is just marketing for casuals
Geralt's role as "the witcher" separates him from normal society and forces him to be a rootless outsider so he can wander around giving the audience an outsiders perspective on the violences and prejudices of the world around him.
Putting Ciri in a similar role is a literary conceit. If they want her to wander around meeting weird people, helping them with their problems, and sleeping with them she needs a reason why she's wandering the countryside instead of doing important elf princess of magical girl destiny stuff.
Imo the decision to make her a witcher makes sense so long as the method used to give her mutations are justifiable. She wanted to be a sorceress like Yennefer and always looked up to Geralt as a witcher.
I do agree that they're fumbling a bit to not focus on her ability to world hop tho as I really wanted to see the Arthurian legend through Ciri's eyes.