He’s a malleable character, and I feel more connected to him than I do the thoroughly customised RPG characters in Skyrim. Geralt has his complexities, but he inherits them from you. The truth is, he’s only the video game tough guy cliche you make him. It’s not that this fantasy is thoroughly objectionable to me, but it definitely seemed as if Geralt of Rivia was a boring video game tough guy. I’d see his face on marketing material and smirk: he was just another by-the-numbers video game power fantasy. I didn’t like Geralt before I started playing The Witcher games. He’s recalcitrant in the face of royal authority. He kills monsters, beasts and bandits along the way. Early on, The Witcher 3 has him exploring the Northern Realms, recently taken over by the warmongering Nilfgaardian Empire, for women he’s either a) in love with or b) eager to protect. He’s a gruff, powerful, chiselled, archetypal male video game protagonist.
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