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The character tastes like cardboard, I never played W1, havent finished W2 nor W3 and am stuck at Blood of the Elves novel.
The novels suck ass.
The novels are good and Geralt is actually a fantastic character with quite a bit of depth.
It definitely helps in the first novel if you go in knowing they're all twisted tales versions of famous fairy tales.
Yeah, I've told people it has more in common with Shrek than Game of Thrones lol
The two genders
I gotta keep reading then
Well I like them a lot, but if you've made it to Blood of Elves in release order (meaning you've read two entire books already) and you still don't like it, you're probably not going to. Sapkowski can be a pretty dry writer and if you're reading the English translation that problem is significantly increased because Sapkowski's prose in Polish is a selling point.
If you're stuck at the beginning of Blood of Elves and just don't like that part specifically but you did like the first two books, then maybe do keep reading, because Blood of Elves marks the point at which Sapkowski shifted from short stories to a real Epic Quest™ and Blood of Elves does take a while to get around to actually setting it up.
If you started with Blood of Elves then no wonder you think the novels suck, start at the beginning lol
The two first books of short stories were for moments fine and for moments sucked immensely and the timeline was all fucked and weird but eh want to know the lore
Blood of Elves seemed very nice at first cuz the dude finally dropped the short story format
Ooh and the Dol Blatana short story, that shit was so fucking awful. And Blood of Elves seems like in yhe same vein so that's why I dropped, right after Triss got diarrhea
W1 is wildly misogynistic, even for mid 2000s standards, not to mention it's pretty shit in every way except maybe the story. It's really not worth playing.
I liked W2 mostly because of the characters and an engaging gameplay that was simple but not boring.
I never could get into W3. It's a beautiful looking world, but it's so immature and wish fulfill-y that I dropped it.