Poverty is everywhere: alcoholism, boredom, listlessness. There’s the weak and the strong, and no grey area in between. The people in The Northern Realms are miserable. It’s not immediately obvious whether they’re a force for good or bad (especially if you’ve never played a Witcher game before), but one thing is certain: nothing is going well. The Nilfgaardians have taken, by force, most of the regions you’ll visit in The Witcher 3. His wit, his ingrained prejudices and allegiances, are just subtle enough that they don’t impinge on my ultimate control of who he is.īefore I get to the finer details, here are the cliffnotes: Geralt is tasked with finding the daughter of Emhyr var Emreis, Nilfgaard’s emperor. He’s a malleable character, and I feel more connected to him than I do the thoroughly customised RPG characters in Skyrim. Geralt has his complexities, but he inherits them from you. The truth is, he’s only the video game tough guy cliche you make him. It’s not that this fantasy is thoroughly objectionable to me, but it definitely seemed as if Geralt of Rivia was a boring video game tough guy. I’d see his face on marketing material and smirk: he was just another by-the-numbers video game power fantasy. I didn’t like Geralt before I started playing The Witcher games. He’s recalcitrant in the face of royal authority. He kills monsters, beasts and bandits along the way. Early on, The Witcher 3 has him exploring the Northern Realms, recently taken over by the warmongering Nilfgaardian Empire, for women he’s either a) in love with or b) eager to protect. He’s a gruff, powerful, chiselled, archetypal male video game protagonist.
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