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He is a bit of a dork, but it's written like that on purpose. He is like a Sonic OC level of fantasy cool guy, but in a world that does not tolerate that kind of fantasy fulfillment, often leading to him being the butt of the joke.
Wind is howling
He is canonically shadow the hedgehog
Has amnesia 👍
Edgelord 👍
Iblis trigger 👍
John Witcher 👍
Conclusion: weenie
People comparing him to Shadow The Hedgehog as means of insult do not deserve the great character that is Shadow The Hedgehog.
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.
Geralt is the reason I have never been able to get into the Witcher series. By all accounts the Witcher 3 is one of the greatest RPGs of all time with an insane amount of depth but I just can't get over the fact that I have no choice to play a character that reads like a 15 year olds checklist of hyper cool masculinity. I get that the character has been around for a while and it wasn't so much a cliche when he was first written but sheesh....I just have a hard time taking him seriously.
Honestly l was worried about that but actually came away fairly pleasantly surprised by his characterization when I played through the game. Although it's definitely undercut by the epic bewbz shit they like to put in these kinds of games
hes fantasy batman crossed with forest gump, a mary sue 'the best ever at fighting' character and master detective who 'tries to stay out of politics' but ends up being involved in every important thing that ever happens anywhere, and gets the opportunity to fuck every woman mage in the land. every person in the setting that isn't also a witcher or a mage rightfully sees him as an inhuman monster, it does the x-men thing where it portrays the superhuman monster-people as 'oppressed minorities', meanwhile accidentally justifying their oppression by making them actually materially physically very dangerous to those around them. early in the 3rd game these 3 human guys will team up on the witcher for making a politically controversial statement, expecting a bit of a scuffle or fist fight brawl, and he decapitates them all with his superhuman sword skills. they were unarmed.
'the best ever at fighting'
he gets crippled by a mage with a stick. he gets killed by a peasant with a pitchfork. he is repeatedly put on the back foot by regular ass dudes.
every person in the setting that isn't also a witcher or a mage rightfully sees him as an inhuman monster
he's literally just a human, the myth that witchers are some kind of monster comes from the fact that many of them turned to banditry in order to survive because they had already hunted all the monsters (there are a finite number of monsters in the world since they are extradimensional beings that don't breed). geralt is constantly starving because he doesn't have any money because he's above banditry.
Don't be mean, he's just autistic (fairly certain this isn't true, but he is easy to read as an allegory for neurodivergence)