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:
"I have to save them... save the village!"
"Save yourself!"
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:
Whenever there is a dire set of circumstances facing a set of characters, or even an entire species, if the solution to the scenario involves trampling women's rights - or even one female character's rights - then writers will immediately swing all narrative sympathy towards the oppressed woman rather than the group. If you are, as we say, 'based and also redpilled' then it's easy to see the seams and limits of feminist ideology, but normalfag simps and feminists are fundamentally incapable of writing from the perspective of men facing existential doom, when there is some crying pussy around.
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 in this trailer? No, just 'sacrifice bad, women most affected'. The dialogue literally goes:
"I have to save them... save the village!"
"Save yourself!"
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:
Whenever there is a dire set of circumstances facing a set of characters, or even an entire species, if the solution to the scenario involves trampling women's rights - or even one female character's rights - then writers will immediately swing all narrative sympathy towards the oppressed woman rather than the group. If you are, as we say, 'based and also redpilled' then it's easy to see the seams and limits of feminist ideology, but normalfag simps and feminists are fundamentally incapable of writing from the perspective of men facing existential doom, when there is some crying pussy around.
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.
Any sign of that in this trailer? No, just 'sacrifice bad, women most affected'. The dialogue literally goes:
"I have to save them... save the village!"
"Save yourself!"
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:
Whenever there is a dire set of circumstances facing a set of characters, or even an entire species, if the solution to the scenario involves trampling women's rights - or even one female character's rights - then writers will immediately swing all narrative sympathy towards the oppressed woman rather than the group. If you are, as we say, 'based and also redpilled' then it's easy to see the seams and limits of feminist ideology, but normalfag simps and feminists are fundamentally incapable of writing from the perspective of men facing existential doom, when there is some crying pussy around.