3:23 Yes she is a Witcher now. CDPR has already said that after the game awards. She successfully underwent the mutations and is an actual Witcher now. That said - after looking into the lore again I'm not so sure that the rule of "no girl suvives the mutations" is actually true and here's why. First, the mages who started the experiment took 38 children, 16 of them where girls. All of them died, but so did 17 of the 22 boys. After the Witchers didn't become what the mages wanted them to be (mutated and in addition as powerfull a spellcaster as an actual mage) most of the mages abandoned the experiment and the few that continued simply stopped using girls for their experiment. Which means that the sample size this "no girl survives" is based on is exactly 16 - a bit small to imply this is a universal rule. Secondly, the Trials of each Witcher school are different, with different and modified formulae used for the mutations. Here's the hook: It is established in the lore that the School of the Cat did in fact not only train human boys, they also trained elves and human girls. It is not mentioned if the girls underwent the Cat school mutations or not, but given that they where trained alongside the boys I'd say it is in fact possible that Cat school mutations are not as lethal to girls and female Cat Witchers might indeed be a thing. Here's another interesting point: Take a look at Ciri's medallion. She's wearing a Cat medallion, not a Wolf one. It doesn't look like the Lynx medallion CDPR announced a while bake either (at least not yet). This could mean that Ciri did underwent the Trials not using the Wolf formulae - she might have taken the Cat school trials. There is no such thing as Witcher Blood. As is established in the lore all Witchers are sterile - and that is by design and is true for all schools, Cat included. 5:31 And she uses Witcher signs: Quen when the beast attacks her, Aard when she's pinned to the wall, Igni to heat up the chain. As for the looks of Ciri - we don't really know yet how she will look in the game. Geralt also looked different in the trailers when compared to the game, not to mention that he looked very different from game to game - Witcher 1 Geralt looks entirely different from Witcher 3 Geralt. On top of that: She's older and she underwent the mutations - that alone is enough to explain her not looking the same as 21 year old Ciri in Witcher 3. No, Witcher 4 is not coming next year, the game just entered full production this year. Anything before 2027 would be a huge surprise. Doesn't mean that the next Witcher game to come out will take that long though - if the rumors are correct the Witcher 1 remake is the game that is furthest in development. A Witcher 2 remake is currently not in development. 12:55 FromSoft gave a bit more information about the game: It seems it is a roguelike multiplayer with a few touches of Battle Royales (the shrinking game zone) and survival (you have to survive three days to reach the final boss of the zone). It seems the zones will be randomized, there will be 8 characters to choose from with unique powers and ultimates and there will be a roguelike progression system when completing runs. It has been confirmed that the Game of Thrones game is indeed a mobile game. It will not come to console or PC. If you're interested in CRPGs there's a trailer from the Pre-event show you might want to check out as well: Solasta 2. In true CRPG fashion the gameplay is very similar to BG3 and Divinity Original Sin and like BG3 the game uses the rules of D&D 5e.
The cat school isnt within book lore. You are however right about the statistical argument. Not even the witchers at kaer mohren seem to believe that on principle girls cannot mutate sucessfully as they intially plan this for Ciri as she arrives in Kaer Mohren (beginning of book 3 - the dream at the beginning of witcher 3 is partially remembering this time). I think it would be cheap of CDPR to justify this mutation based on something that isnt book lore. A major problem someone made me remember again (read the books 10+ years ago) is that Ciri once ran away and finds dryads (book 2 sword of destiny). Those dryads make her go through a "dryad trial" to mutate her into one of there own, but nothing happens. She doesnt die and she doesnt mutate. A specualtion now is that the mutations of her lineage prevent her from mutating. So she might surivive the trials of grasses, but simply not mutate if we assume this to be the case. Even more lore problems/complications arrise when we remember that Ciri lost her ability to do sorcery in the korath desert at the age of 14 permenantly according to book canon. Yet her the electricity spell after draining energy from water is sorcery. Another major problem is inferitity. While not in conflict with canon or lore her lineage is kind of important and i think she might be the last of the "main line" of this lineage possibly the only one who can carry on the mutations of lara dorren. Will CDPR just ignore this? So while there is some cringe "antiwoke" outrage over Ciri there are complications with lore that are quite serious and not that easy to solve - the one with sorcery is just straight up breaking with book canon.
@@O.Hölder CDPR does a lot of things that are not book lore. Like Geralt being alive for example because at the end of the books he's actually dead - and the games take place after the books which means if you go by book lore Geralt is dead and therefore cannot be the protagonist of anything. Yennefer might very well be dead as well btw though that's not made as clear in the books. The dryads....that's an entirely different process and should not be taken as a comparison to anything Witcher related. The whole concept of Sapkowski's drads has a few gaping holes btw - like with whom did they procreate before the arrival of elves and humans? The books state that they use elven or human men to procreate or elven and human girls for transformation, but at the same time the dryads predate both elves and humans on the continent (they are in fact one of the races Sapkowski had originally planned to populate his world alongside races like werebubbs and vran; but eventually he decided to switch to the more familiar races like elves and dwarves). I don't see the sorcery question as a problem at all. The original concept for the creation of witchers was to mutate people into having magic abilities after all.....which resulted in Witchers being capable of using Witcher signs. So even if Ciri lost her original ability for sorcery before Witcher mutations could absolutely restore that capability to some extent without having to take some weird mental twists - if we assume that mutations do work on her. Rememeber that unlike Ciri children used for witcher mutation usually do not possess any magical abilities before the mutation so no one really knows what happens when a child that does already have magic abilities is mutated into a witcher. As for Ciri being the last descendant of Lara Dorren - that is actually never specified by Sapkowski as far as I'm aware. Which means there might be others.
@Hauke-ph5ui You could be right about the dryad trial, but definitely not about the sorcery. She drains energy from water. That's explicitely something a sorceress does and not a witcher - also not a super powerful witcher. She lost this ability permanently. With geralt and yen while they do cannonically die the fairy tale ciri tells to comfort herself at the end which is taken literally by some fans CDPR chose to take literally themselves. Its therefore a smooth transition between book cannon and game cannon - its well done and made possible as sapkowski chose to be a bit ambigious (not really as it is like absolutely clear that they die but you know what i mean). Just undoing something without explaination isnt good however. And i am seeing no angle to explain her being able to do sorcery again at the moment.
@@O.Hölder You're jumping to conclusions way too quickly here. We don't know any of the explanations yet - we haven't played the game yet, all we have are a few seconds in a trailer. How do you jump to the conclusion that there will not be an explanation just because we didn't get one in the trailer? As for the angle you mention - I already gave you one: Maybe it's a consequence of Witcher mutations that made this possible - she already possesses magical abilities which might mean that the mutations work a little different on her than on other people. Maybe its another reason entirely. Maybe it's a consequence of her interacting with the White Frost. Or here is a super wild theory - maybe she doesn't use magic, maybe she brought some crazy cybernetic implants from her time on Cyberpunk Earth and uses some for of crazy tech to draw power (just kidding). Who knows as of now with what little information we have - I don't and you don't either. All we can do right now is speculating with possible scenarios.
>sees village, people and dress as Slavic as they can be while also knowing that it's The Witcher which is based on Slavic folklore "Is this midsommar?" bruh
I really hyped about nrw games from "it takes two" company. I hace a daughter and together we really have fun with this type of games. Everything have its purpose
I like horror. I like stories. Can you recommend a sports game that tells a good story? with a good gameplay that isn’t just a repetitive pattern? I’d love to try it!
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3:23 Yes she is a Witcher now. CDPR has already said that after the game awards. She successfully underwent the mutations and is an actual Witcher now. That said - after looking into the lore again I'm not so sure that the rule of "no girl suvives the mutations" is actually true and here's why.
First, the mages who started the experiment took 38 children, 16 of them where girls. All of them died, but so did 17 of the 22 boys. After the Witchers didn't become what the mages wanted them to be (mutated and in addition as powerfull a spellcaster as an actual mage) most of the mages abandoned the experiment and the few that continued simply stopped using girls for their experiment. Which means that the sample size this "no girl survives" is based on is exactly 16 - a bit small to imply this is a universal rule.
Secondly, the Trials of each Witcher school are different, with different and modified formulae used for the mutations. Here's the hook: It is established in the lore that the School of the Cat did in fact not only train human boys, they also trained elves and human girls. It is not mentioned if the girls underwent the Cat school mutations or not, but given that they where trained alongside the boys I'd say it is in fact possible that Cat school mutations are not as lethal to girls and female Cat Witchers might indeed be a thing.
Here's another interesting point: Take a look at Ciri's medallion. She's wearing a Cat medallion, not a Wolf one. It doesn't look like the Lynx medallion CDPR announced a while bake either (at least not yet). This could mean that Ciri did underwent the Trials not using the Wolf formulae - she might have taken the Cat school trials.
There is no such thing as Witcher Blood. As is established in the lore all Witchers are sterile - and that is by design and is true for all schools, Cat included.
5:31 And she uses Witcher signs: Quen when the beast attacks her, Aard when she's pinned to the wall, Igni to heat up the chain.
As for the looks of Ciri - we don't really know yet how she will look in the game. Geralt also looked different in the trailers when compared to the game, not to mention that he looked very different from game to game - Witcher 1 Geralt looks entirely different from Witcher 3 Geralt. On top of that: She's older and she underwent the mutations - that alone is enough to explain her not looking the same as 21 year old Ciri in Witcher 3.
No, Witcher 4 is not coming next year, the game just entered full production this year. Anything before 2027 would be a huge surprise. Doesn't mean that the next Witcher game to come out will take that long though - if the rumors are correct the Witcher 1 remake is the game that is furthest in development. A Witcher 2 remake is currently not in development.
12:55 FromSoft gave a bit more information about the game: It seems it is a roguelike multiplayer with a few touches of Battle Royales (the shrinking game zone) and survival (you have to survive three days to reach the final boss of the zone). It seems the zones will be randomized, there will be 8 characters to choose from with unique powers and ultimates and there will be a roguelike progression system when completing runs.
It has been confirmed that the Game of Thrones game is indeed a mobile game. It will not come to console or PC.
If you're interested in CRPGs there's a trailer from the Pre-event show you might want to check out as well: Solasta 2. In true CRPG fashion the gameplay is very similar to BG3 and Divinity Original Sin and like BG3 the game uses the rules of D&D 5e.
The cat school isnt within book lore. You are however right about the statistical argument. Not even the witchers at kaer mohren seem to believe that on principle girls cannot mutate sucessfully as they intially plan this for Ciri as she arrives in Kaer Mohren (beginning of book 3 - the dream at the beginning of witcher 3 is partially remembering this time). I think it would be cheap of CDPR to justify this mutation based on something that isnt book lore. A major problem someone made me remember again (read the books 10+ years ago) is that Ciri once ran away and finds dryads (book 2 sword of destiny). Those dryads make her go through a "dryad trial" to mutate her into one of there own, but nothing happens. She doesnt die and she doesnt mutate. A specualtion now is that the mutations of her lineage prevent her from mutating. So she might surivive the trials of grasses, but simply not mutate if we assume this to be the case. Even more lore problems/complications arrise when we remember that Ciri lost her ability to do sorcery in the korath desert at the age of 14 permenantly according to book canon. Yet her the electricity spell after draining energy from water is sorcery. Another major problem is inferitity. While not in conflict with canon or lore her lineage is kind of important and i think she might be the last of the "main line" of this lineage possibly the only one who can carry on the mutations of lara dorren. Will CDPR just ignore this?
So while there is some cringe "antiwoke" outrage over Ciri there are complications with lore that are quite serious and not that easy to solve - the one with sorcery is just straight up breaking with book canon.
Thank you for your wonderful explanation. I’m very excited to play this game.
@@O.Hölder CDPR does a lot of things that are not book lore.
Like Geralt being alive for example because at the end of the books he's actually dead - and the games take place after the books which means if you go by book lore Geralt is dead and therefore cannot be the protagonist of anything.
Yennefer might very well be dead as well btw though that's not made as clear in the books.
The dryads....that's an entirely different process and should not be taken as a comparison to anything Witcher related. The whole concept of Sapkowski's drads has a few gaping holes btw - like with whom did they procreate before the arrival of elves and humans? The books state that they use elven or human men to procreate or elven and human girls for transformation, but at the same time the dryads predate both elves and humans on the continent (they are in fact one of the races Sapkowski had originally planned to populate his world alongside races like werebubbs and vran; but eventually he decided to switch to the more familiar races like elves and dwarves).
I don't see the sorcery question as a problem at all. The original concept for the creation of witchers was to mutate people into having magic abilities after all.....which resulted in Witchers being capable of using Witcher signs.
So even if Ciri lost her original ability for sorcery before Witcher mutations could absolutely restore that capability to some extent without having to take some weird mental twists - if we assume that mutations do work on her. Rememeber that unlike Ciri children used for witcher mutation usually do not possess any magical abilities before the mutation so no one really knows what happens when a child that does already have magic abilities is mutated into a witcher.
As for Ciri being the last descendant of Lara Dorren - that is actually never specified by Sapkowski as far as I'm aware. Which means there might be others.
@Hauke-ph5ui You could be right about the dryad trial, but definitely not about the sorcery. She drains energy from water. That's explicitely something a sorceress does and not a witcher - also not a super powerful witcher. She lost this ability permanently. With geralt and yen while they do cannonically die the fairy tale ciri tells to comfort herself at the end which is taken literally by some fans CDPR chose to take literally themselves. Its therefore a smooth transition between book cannon and game cannon - its well done and made possible as sapkowski chose to be a bit ambigious (not really as it is like absolutely clear that they die but you know what i mean). Just undoing something without explaination isnt good however. And i am seeing no angle to explain her being able to do sorcery again at the moment.
@@O.Hölder You're jumping to conclusions way too quickly here. We don't know any of the explanations yet - we haven't played the game yet, all we have are a few seconds in a trailer. How do you jump to the conclusion that there will not be an explanation just because we didn't get one in the trailer?
As for the angle you mention - I already gave you one: Maybe it's a consequence of Witcher mutations that made this possible - she already possesses magical abilities which might mean that the mutations work a little different on her than on other people.
Maybe its another reason entirely. Maybe it's a consequence of her interacting with the White Frost. Or here is a super wild theory - maybe she doesn't use magic, maybe she brought some crazy cybernetic implants from her time on Cyberpunk Earth and uses some for of crazy tech to draw power (just kidding).
Who knows as of now with what little information we have - I don't and you don't either. All we can do right now is speculating with possible scenarios.
>sees village, people and dress as Slavic as they can be while also knowing that it's The Witcher which is based on Slavic folklore
"Is this midsommar?"
bruh
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I really hyped about nrw games from "it takes two" company.
I hace a daughter and together we really have fun with this type of games. Everything have its purpose
That’s lovely to hear! 😌
Uh, where is your reaction to Okami Sequel? Your title says "All Trailers", yet that one is missing.
At 40:08.
Play the original God of War trilogy, Egogirl 😄
You should play a sports games because there are really good why always horror and same other games
I like horror. I like stories. Can you recommend a sports game that tells a good story? with a good gameplay that isn’t just a repetitive pattern? I’d love to try it!
Hello Birdy, How are You? 🙋🏻♂️👋🏻
Seriously astro bot best video game of the year 2024 / Goty? What a mockery and shame because there were better video games, Final Fantasy, Metaphor: ReFantazio, Black Myth: Wukong, The video game press and some content creators are a mockery 🤦🏻♂️
I hope to hear your opinion and response 🙏🏻❤️
Hello :) Astro bot wasn’t my personal choice but congratulations to them. Everyone who played the game said it was amazing. Your taste might be different but just remember that this is a popularity contest in the end :) thanks for your comment!
All the same shit repeated and repeated year after year.