Witcher channel asks for sign ins due to age so using the IGN vid atm, if anyone knows of a way to archive this or whatever please go for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWMu6JeT2g8
Some 4chan thoughts on the matter.
https://boards.4chan.org/vrpg/thread/3675650/witcher-4
c/Gaming thoughts on the matter.
https://communities.win/c/Gaming/p/19A0ojiz4R/witcher-4-ciri-the-girlboss/c
Trash. She looks like she's had bad cosmetic surgery. She casually does witcher stuff like chugging potions despite never having undergone witcher mutations. Tryhard ladyboss voice acting. Finally the theme of the trailer itself is retarded and goes against the nuance you'd normally find in the Witcher games.
I think we're all tired of reddit-atheist tier ideas, but the theme of 'ritual and sacrifice is... le BAD' is especially moronic in games where ritual and sacrifice have established power, and there is a confirmed spiritual world beyond the material. Terry Pratchett used to play with this idea in Discworld, where magic and gods were practically a mundane presence so that the concept of rational materialist characters come across as extra goofy, even though it might seem the more intuitive stance for the reader. Modern writers, especially lefty woke women ones, can't seem to grasp this though and so they come up with shit like this trailer where they're obviously just using the iconography of sacrifice as a rallying cry to say 'look, it's some bad people'.
In the witcher world it is thoroughly established that humans make mutually beneficial pacts with magical forces all the time, even if it's not exactly what they think it is. Someone will shelter a werewolf, a dragon, a vampire, or whatever, in exchange for allowing the monster to indulge itself in secret. A witcher like Geralt will often allow it to continue if he considers it the lesser evil. There's a scenario almost exactly like the one in the trailer in Skellige in TW3, where a village has a traditional coming-of-age arrangement with what turns out to be a Leshen. They send their young men out to test their strength against it, which often results in their death. Geralt can choose to undergo the test of strength - indulging the monster, essentially - or opt to side with the anti-tradition faction in the town and destroy the monster. In witcher fashion, there's no glorious ending either way, but killing the monster tips the balance of power in the village and results in an unavoidable massacre. It also reveals the anti-traditionalists to be perfectly fine with sacrificing women when they feel a tangible benefit (because one choice on this branch is to kill a woman the Leshen has marked).
Any sign of that nuance in this trailer? No, just 'sacrifice bad, women most affected'. The dialogue literally goes:
So maybe it's six of one, half a dozen of the other, in a split between anti-traditionalism themes and autopilot feminist simp mode, which I discussed in another reply a while back:
Feminist and leftist writers are definitely incapable of getting lost in a fantasy setting. They have to use a fantasy setting to overtly spread their own ideologies, using the setting as a skinsuit to spread the message. They're incapable of nuance, which is why their messaging feels like being hit over the head with a hammer, and drives people away. Whereas intelligently written fantasy and scifi hides the messages much better, leaving the created world feeling real, where the lessons contained within make sense within the confines of the world, the characters, and the story, letting the reader interpret the lessons for themselves, making them much more widely applicable.
In a broader sense, I think men are predisposed to be better fantasy and scifi writers than women, for the same reasons above. Women, at least modern women, want the attention to be on them, so their created worlds feel hollow, merely a backdrop to tell the story they want, replete with the central girlboss character that's an obvious stand in for the writer. Men are less vain, so they're better able to leave themselves out of it, to let the story tell itself, while he merely sets up the chessboard. At least that's what I've seen.