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Might be a hot take, but reporting on that just generates the wrong kind of buzz.

How could anyone hate Ciri :c

I've seen more posts complaining about complainers, than I've seen complainers.

Add Naughty Dog's "Intergalactic" to the pile: The protagonist is female and a PoC! The usual suspects are already frothing at the mouth and recording a bajillion outrage bait videos for their Youtube channels.

No no you see it is because I have dedicated the last 20 years of my life to Witcher lore and have memorized not only every line but every plot in the series and books, and you see, Ciri is supposed to be much [choice: less/more] powerful than this trailer makes her appear! I’m boycotting this game and recommend everyone else does too! I’m tired of them shitting on lore with woke propaganda!

Anyway, I think that covers it.

How come how the absolute worst men are allowed to represent the entire gender?

(Lore nerd rant ahead, tl;dr: Ciri being the protag is 100% fine and I expected it but her being a full witcher is weird)

There's exactly one somewhat valid complaint to be had here, and it's that Ciri in the books explicitly didn't go through the Trial of the Grasses (aka one of the main mutation processes that makes you a witcher or, as it often happens, just straight up kills you), so idk how they'll justify her being able to use witcher potions and stuff now. And (also in the books) she has lost her access to magic at one point, so using witcher signs is strange too.

I can see her wanting to take the plunge and go through with the trials, but I'm also certain that Geralt wouldn't want that for her bc of how much it fucks you up + most of the secrets of the trials have been lost.

I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and wait and see what explanation they come up with for her being a full witcher, but it better be good.

So, from lore perspective, I have no objections to her being the protag but I don't love her being a full witcher. I liked what they did with her gameplay sections in W3, I hoped they'd have just expanded on that gameplay idea more.

The thing is though, they don't care about women in video games, they just care about "ugly" women in video games. as long as they can look at an hourglass shaped woman with massive curves in a skinsuit they don't mind.

don't go down the rabbit hole of "fixing female characters"...

Doesn't Geralt basically retire at the end of 3??? Of course it's her turn to be the protag, fuck the haters.

Guaranteed the word “woke” will be thrown around left and right

More like it will be thrown from the right

Ciri is such a great character in the books. I hope they can get a lot of that personality into her in the game, too.

I don't understand the hate for women in video games, If the next Doom game comes out with a female protagonist I'd be going "HELL YEAH RIP ITS HEAD OFF!!!" the same way I do in Doom Eternal

Funny how none of them had a problem with like 10 games about Lara Croft.

I don't get it, Witcher already has a bunch of female protagonists.

Don't understand the hate. I also prefer sexy characters as I dont prioritize realism in games and am looking for escapism but that isn't the game. If you want a game with sexy characters, there are plenty.

I often mod games to add that asthetic. I'll probably wait for this to be on a big sale once there are such mods for that reason.

Don't like what they're selling? Don't play it. Or mod it. Don't screech on the internet that it's not fair to you. You didn't make the thing.

So much rage. It's like complaining a romantic comedy isn't an action movie.

Why would they do this? Why would a producer produce something they wanted to produce??????