The books and the games are actually quite good, there’s a reason they got so big in Poland. See this synthesis of other comments:
“It must have been really hard for gamers to do that side quest where Geraldo of Rivia says racism is bad.”
“Or when Ciri is canonically bisexual. Or how the Witcher 2 is about a guerilla movement for national liberation.”
“I feel like “Geralt turns to the camera and says ‘the real monsters are cruel and intolerant men’” happens in a good ten percent of the quests, both side and main.”
I don’t think Andrzej Sapkwoski is explicitly leftist but the stories would get ripped apart by the anti-woke crowd if they were first released today instead of in the 80s, and no I don’t think this is just cope to defend a story I found deeply meaningful. Geralt’s character arc in the original short stories and books is about going from a jaded bitter individualist “why should I ever stick my neck out for anyone else” to “I will fucking eviscerate anyone from the dominant social group who tries to pogrom these ethnic minorities”.
Chuds just have exactly 0 media literacy skills so they see white man and think “omg he’s just like me” when his position in society is actually to be persecuted, scapegoated, and given the shittiest of shit-work to the point where he multiple times has to go into the shit-filled sewers just to earn money for food.
I mean I had no interest in the Netflix show because it looked horribly done, not because Big Woke woked all over it or whatever the chuds said
The fanbase is just another example of “curtain is blue and there’s no other meaning” brainworms even though the game has quite a lot of interesting themes going on
I’m glad I never bothered with Based Geraldo’s game because the fanbase seems nuclear toxic.
The books and the games are actually quite good, there’s a reason they got so big in Poland. See this synthesis of other comments:
I don’t think Andrzej Sapkwoski is explicitly leftist but the stories would get ripped apart by the anti-woke crowd if they were first released today instead of in the 80s, and no I don’t think this is just cope to defend a story I found deeply meaningful. Geralt’s character arc in the original short stories and books is about going from a jaded bitter individualist “why should I ever stick my neck out for anyone else” to “I will fucking eviscerate anyone from the dominant social group who tries to pogrom these ethnic minorities”.
Chuds just have exactly 0 media literacy skills so they see white man and think “omg he’s just like me” when his position in society is actually to be persecuted, scapegoated, and given the shittiest of shit-work to the point where he multiple times has to go into the shit-filled sewers just to earn money for food.
I mean I had no interest in the Netflix show because it looked horribly done, not because Big Woke woked all over it or whatever the chuds said
The fanbase is just another example of “curtain is blue and there’s no other meaning” brainworms even though the game has quite a lot of interesting themes going on