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
I saw a screenshot of Ciri's face in the Witcher 4 trailer, they really gave her a butterface didn't they.
Like even with her scars in 3, she was beautiful, just playing as Geralt made me seeing her less for partner in a sexual sense, more beautiful daughter I wanted to cuddle after slaying a monster lol.
Anyway the inability to just have beautiful women presented in games when they were there in previous years old games does not instill confidence this will be anything more than lackluster.
Some are explaining her looks as "aging". Yeah, because nobody ages beautifully, not even in fantasy land.
I haven't kept up with any changes to the lore, if any, but her using signs and potions was strange to me. Ciri was already OP, being able to teleport anywhere at will, even in combat, so I wonder why they're going with that. Unless... they're going with a "she lost her powers" route, because of what shed did to stop the White Frost, but that would mean having to undergo the Trials of the Grasses which the other witchers were (at least somewhat) against. Especially Lambert.
Whatever the case, little to no faith in a new witcher sadly, no matter the protagonist.
Turns out she did undergo the Trial of the Grasses
WHY?
Because it's a product in the skinsuit of a beloved story, literally no other reason. No point torturing your head.
The MC has to be Ciri because of member berries, feminism, and the alternative being a white male in 2024. The MC in a Witcher game has to be a witcher or else people get mad plus half the lore and gameplay mechanics are gone, so she has to have done the Trial of Grasses. Any further fake explanation of 'why' is going to be totally post hoc, in fact consider it subject to constant internal revision right up until release.