I could kill the troll (it was a monster, and hunting monsters was my business), or I could find some paint. "A chicken," as he called it - the Redanian eagle, banner of one of the two sides in this war - that would make him official. What he wanted was for Geralt to find him some paint and make a flag for what was now his castle. But the soldiers had never come back and he felt like he was owed something. Problem was, how could he guard the boats without walls to protect them? His solution: smash the boats and use the wood to make walls. And Wild Hunt is that rarest of modern, digital myths: One that is both. It is storytelling with weight, which gives an early example of the stakes Wild Hunt is willing to put on the table and, eventually, the horrors from which it will not shy. It deals with drunkenness, abuse, loyalty and rage, medieval fantasy PTSD and magic. It's one of those encounters that seems like it's going to be simple, but becomes twisted and strange and tragic and, before you know it, has taken hours and days from you like a thief. And in trade for information about Ciri, Geralt has to find out what happened to the Baron's family. About 10 hours in, you meet a great, loud fat man who has put himself in charge of a town ravaged by the war. The Bloody Baron - that's where most people say the story gets good. And into this rides a man on a horse with a sword and a past. There is death and horror and tragedy at every turn. But here, now, in my living room, the land is at war. Unsurprisingly, The Witcher series is based (loosely) on a series of books by polish author Andrzej Sapkowski (of which a new one has just been announced, called Season Of Storms, along with a brand-new Netflix TV series). It is the story of a lot of people looking for a lot of missing things - friends, comrades, nations, history - all of which swirl together into the main narrative. It is the story of a man looking for his daughter. ![]() ![]() ![]() That the man (Geralt) happens to be a monster-hunting bad-ass with two swords and a wicked face scar, and the daughter (Ciri) is following in the family tradition, but is also being chased all over the world by elves and trans-dimensional ice monsters? That in the course of his adventures, Geralt will (among other things), put on a play, murder a tree, find an old lady's frying pan and have sex on a stuffed unicorn? That's all just gravy. ![]() At it's most simplistic (and, therefore, most honest) it is about a man who has misplaced his adopted daughter and will do anything - including bringing about the end of the world - in order to get her back safely. And as the man inside him, I remained haunted by pieces of it. I'd done a lot of good and a fair amount of bad (for arguably good reasons) as Geralt. I had fresh scars and the blood of friends on my hands. Rich, powerful and deadly as all hell.īut I was other things, too. Just me and my dumb horse, Roach, wandering the countryside and being bludgeoned, stabbed, burned, poisoned or disemboweled by everything on two, four or eight legs. All Tech Considered Reading The Game: Shadow Of Mordor
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