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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ruemere" data-source="post: 9532244" data-attributes="member: 5515">The trailer for Witcher 4 hit the Internet today. I am slightly disappointed with its quality - and so here are a few musings of mine on the subject.But first, the links:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54dabgZJ5YA&pp=ygURd2l0Y2hlciA0IHRyYWlsZXI%3D" target="_blank">Witcher 4 trailer, English version</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qqSGaBIcXo" target="_blank">Witcher 4 trailer, Polish version</a> (the voice acting changes perspective... somewhat)THE GOOD<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It's Witcher, it's Ciri, it's dark and brutal, and the bad stuff happens even if your intentions are good.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The quality of visuals is stunning.</li> </ul>THE BAD<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Compared to Night to Remember, compared to CyberPunks 2077 with its haunting Bullets theme - it is just not in the same league.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The camera operator still needs to learn a lot about how to convey narrative. The beggining of the trailer is pretty good, but the fight, and the conclusion are pretty meh. Just look at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwXVdPq2Raw" target="_blank">film maker's reaction to Night to Remember</a>.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ciri apparently drinks Witcher's elixirs. This implies several things - like her undergoing the Trial of Grasses, a highest lethality phase of witcher training (this means, that she mutated, that she's suffered a lot) - this would mean that papa Geralt was OK with possibly killing his daughter. Somehow, unless mommy Yennefer improved the process, I don't think it would happen.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ciri breaks the cardinal rule of the witcher franchise - each commissioned kill requires preparations. It looks like Ciri's actions are made on the spur of the moment, with no prior thought to the nature of the enemy. Sharpening a weapon, drinking a potion in a middle of combat... hardly a proper preparation.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">One of the reason Geralt adapted stoic approach is that he felt powerless. The few times he lost control, or he tried to make a stand, he had to pay a spectacular price. This is one of the reasons the Butcher of Blaviken hits so hard. So, again, it is unlikely that Ciri would just mercilessly kill the rural folk. And so her grandstanding act feels so out of place.</li> </ul>THE UGLY<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hey, it's another Unreal trailer.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The commoners and their prejudice. One of the common themes of commoners sacrificing their children to dark gods of woods is that without mystic protection their villages would perish. By killing the dark protector, Ciri is likely to have doomed the village in the long run.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hey, it is D&D fight. Witcher monsters usually come with complicated backstories, and rooting them out means destroying a piece of history. Hence, the lead in to the fight is important. During this fight, however, we get to fight, lose some hitpoints and then that's it. There is an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IY6sVPUW-c" target="_blank">old, old trailer for Witcher #1 with Geralt facing off against a strzyga</a> (PL voiceover version, because it is so good) - he takes his time to delay things, to keep the distance, to avoid contact. And in the end, a single mistake almost costs him his life. Meanwhile Ciri - well, she hits, she gets hit, she does two magic tricks, and then the monster runs out of hitpoints.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Where is the haunting music of the previous entries? The ambience seems fine, the music - it's not there. Hopefully, they'll improve by the next trailer.</li> </ul>BOTTOM LINEIt's good, it's just not that good.</blockquote>

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