A new Witcher game is in development, and it is going to be “kicking off a brand new saga for the franchise” within the phrases of CD Projekt. What does that imply? To spoil the ending of The Witcher 3’s ultimate DLC, Blood and Wine, we all know that Geralt is a semi-retired winery proprietor today, having settled down with whichever love curiosity you selected (or neither of them in the event you goofed the romance).
So who and what is going to this upcoming sport, the one that will not be referred to as The Witcher 4 however we do not have a greater title for but, be about? Let’s fireplace up the hypothesis engine and see what it pops out.
It’s going to be about Ciri
If the witcher medallion within the announcement represents a redesigned search for the Faculty of the Cat, that may very well be a suggestion that Ciri would be the protagonist. She wears a Faculty of the Cat medallion, having taken it from a bounty hunter within the books, which replaces Geralt’s Faculty of the Wolf medallion subsequent to the well being bar within the components of The Witcher 3 the place you play as Ciri.
If it isn’t a brand new search for the Faculty of the Cat and CD Projekt is including a brand new lynx-themed witcher college to the lore, maybe it is one with completely different necessities for entry—and one Ciri may formally be a part of, regardless of not having gone by means of the usual witcher trials. Both approach, that medallion’s mendacity in snow, which Ciri’s thematically related to.
Having Ciri as a protagonist presents a couple of issues, however not insurmountable ones. She would not use indicators or drink potions, and might teleport, so fight could be fairly completely different. In fact, fight’s been utterly redesigned in each Witcher sport to this point, and we did get to play as Ciri in The Witcher 3 already.
Extra of a problem for some gamers is that persevering with Ciri’s story would imply selecting which of The Witcher 3’s endings is canonical. It should be the one the place Ciri turns into a witcher, after all. It is the ending that almost all clearly units up one other videogame, and it is already the one chosen by the Witcher comic books CD Projekt collaborated with Darkish Horse Comics to create.
You may get to make your personal witcher
Alternatively, CD Projekt Purple did let gamers make a V of their very own for Cyberpunk 2077. What if the subsequent Witcher sport let gamers design a witcher? One who joins a brand new witcher college that welcomes women and men, elves and dwarves, and individuals who’ve pushed the cheekbone slider too far and can remorse it for the subsequent 60 hours or so?
That might free the writers from having to decide on which of The Witcher 3’s endings is the true one, and allow them to make a sport a couple of witcher doing witcher issues with out having to fret as a lot about contradicting the present lore.
It may additionally construct a brand new forged of characters CD Projekt would personal the rights to, whereas sustaining a way of continuity by bringing again components of The Witcher 3 like contracts, witcher senses, alchemy, and Gwent. Think about if, on the finish of an extended Gwent match storyline, your self-made protagonist received able to face the last word grand grasp, at which level you heard Geralt say, “Deal me in.” And that was his solely look in the whole sport.
The factor is, what makes The Witcher video games stand out from different RPGs is that they do not allow you to play an undefined hero who could be no matter you need. The roleplaying in them is about decoding an current character, about deciding what sort of Geralt you wish to be. To lose that will be to lose a big a part of their attraction.
It’s going to have a number of protagonists
What if having the ability to play as Ciri in The Witcher 3 wasn’t a suggestion that we would get to play her extra totally in a sequel, however {that a} sequel would even have a couple of playable character? Here is a solution to make individuals who desire a sport about Ciri completely happy whereas additionally retaining The Witcher 3’s signs-and-potions gameplay intact.
Maybe fan-favorite witcher Lambert may very well be one other playable character, or Eskel. It may very well be a full ensemble sport, with one other character taking the function of a sorceress who will get a devoted magic system to mess around with, or a shape-changing doppler, or an abnormal peasant approach out of their depth.
That may very well be loads of enjoyable, and would mirror the way in which the unique brief tales about Geralt grew to become a collection of novels that regularly spent chapters away from his point-of-view, following different characters and giving the setting its sense of richness.
Or possibly it’s going to be a prequel about Younger Vesemir Adventures. Truthfully, at this stage we’re simply spitballing. It’s going to in all probability be the Ciri one, although.
