The Witcher Saga: Soon review of books and game trilogy.

[King Green]

I don't know if all of you read or played Andrzej Sapkowski's infamous low fantasy yet hard science of: The Witcher.

I just feel so squeamish of the idea of monsters having concrete study lore and reason of choice of human evil.
While Geralt is the due-tagonist and center of the games, I feel a lot more focus on the Lodge of Sorceresses s and their fall from grace, to the Nilffgardian Empire and their commitment of unifying every nation under a banner.

People barley try to discuss the lore of monsters and why they exist only in fantasy, to me however (and some others) there is always a expansion of a story even when its finished.

My favorite monsters are the drowned undead, trolls and the Man of Mirrors, or usually called Gaunter O'Dim.

[Rocketboy1313]

I have watched the Netflix series, read the first book, and played about 90 minutes of the third game (for whatever reason the games never grab me, even tho I like the combat and the art... I don't know).

I am a fan of the character of Geralt, he reminds me a lot of Conan, in that he is mostly a smart badass who can be thrown into nearly any situation and boom you have an adventure. Geralt and Conan going to get coffee would result in 3 eldritch gods getting ganked before they even made it to the Dunkin. 8 if you had Harry Dresden and John Constantine there too.

I am generally a fan of capable and level headed heroes who act like heroes.

[GreyICE]

I really liked the books. They were very well written, and fantastic. Lot I could say about them. Entirely worth reading. There's a lot of subtlty and nuance, and while I really hate the idea of "the fading of old glory" 99% of the time, Sapkowski manages to capture the feeling of loss and tragedy perfectly. It's damn well written. And I really appreciate that Geralt is a very passive hero - he tends towards non-interference as a rule, and the books very much hammer home why - hell, one of the first things he does is try to help, kills ten people needlessly and gets himself saddled with the moniker "the Butcher of Blaviken". Good intentions, road to hell.

Sadly the show was really bad, and I just never could get into the computer games (they struck me as very Gothic style eurojank)