For me it seems this way. They're laying down the stories behind Geralt, Yen, Ciri to be the main characters.
Yeah it was pretty poorly done. Felt very cheap.
Wild guess: others found it cool.
Mage builds usually are.
Alchemy is boss.
Oh wow, that's dedication. Those 10+ year old games look.... well old
They wouldn't spunk the majority of their acting budget on Cavill to make him a second fiddle character. That would be a fail on too many levels.
I mentioned some pages ago, I find the first Witcher game the best regarding atmosphere, even better than TW3, and with more interesting combat than TW2's roll fest spam combat.
I did, just got to tower of mice. Already had Letho go to Kaer Morhen. :>
8.5 from me as well.
Odegaard’s explanation above is correct. There’s also one point in the novels where Vilgefortz beats Geralt down pretty easily.
I tried that some time ago and the first game was rough. I remember loving it back in 2007-ish, but games (and especially this series) have come a long way since then! Not worth going through it again in my opinion.
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Agreed. The problem was that the main focus of the season was not on stopping Nilfgaardian from taking over. So there was no emotional investment in mage crew stopping their army from taking over. Yennerfer is involved but she also grudgingly joins after not giving any shit for most of the season. Nilfgaardian's main players themselves were poorly drawn up. Basically I did not care about the end result of the war whatsoever. I knew they were not going to kill off Yennerfer and I did not care about the fate of any other character.
Thanks lads. That makes a lot of sense in hindsight.
He's powerful but not especially so compared to other mages. He comes across as a much better fighter than the rest though, but still he's no Tissaia De Vries
I feel like they’re just moving away from the ultimate storyline. Cahir seems more of a general instead of going off to find/defend ciri, and vilgefortz?!? He Beats cahir with ease in the books, I feel like they just purposely made him look “normal” so that they can choose their own storyline. Guess we will see how it develops
Apologies I got it mixed up, cahir gets killed by Leo bonhart who is less dangerous. Vilgefortz fights both yen and Geralt at the same time.
And which mages are these? Tissaia is the most powerful sorceress, but she doesn’t have any feats comparable to 3 v 1ing Geralt, a higher vampire, and a sorceress. Following which Geralt is only finally victorious through injuries and an amulet. Vilgefortz is absolutely the strongest mage. He’s the major antagonist of the novels and has the most feats to prove so by far.
Nah, not really. Novels make it pretty clear Tissaia is on a whole different level. Avallac'h is made out to be a pretty serious deal too
Missed this earlier. As someone who chose Triss in the games, I admit being slightly disappointed at the lack of flaming red hair, but at least they got the freckles right. However I am more disappointed at the writing of her character than the actress, who I thought did a decent job. She feels like a side character becuase thats what she is in the show, at least this season. How many lines does she even have? And how many of them are actually with Geralt? Besides their initial interaction, I honestly can't recall. Her character is just another one of Foltest's agents serving as a buffer between him and Geralt. I think she is pretty cute but hasn't had much of a chance to show it or to express herself just yet.
Thought the same but episode 5/6 do a very good job making you forget about a lot of that and bring it all together in a surprisingly satisfying fashion.
Yes. It is based on the books. Games are (non canon) sequels to the books.
