The Witcher The Witcher IV - The Ciri Saga Begins

[Reinhardt]

Is Ciri protagonist a good idea? Yes

stopped reading.

 

[Inec0rn]

Did the author even write anything about Ciri? or is this videogame employee writing?

 

[Ryzer]

Did the author even write anything about Ciri? or is this videogame employee writing?

The author finds the Netflix series excellent, so believe me you don't want his opinion on the matter.

 

[Old Hans]

Name a top notch game with a fixed female main character... I'll wait

Tomb Raider, Control , Resident Evil 3, Mirrors Edge and Alien Isolation.

Control is pretentious slop, Resident Evil is a retarded normie console pap (oooh aaah is so spoopy :soyface: ) and Mirrors Edge is hipster boredom simulator. Haven't played Alien Isolation.

I'm old, I was there when Tomb Raider came out, it blew everybody's mind, it was a true gaming pioneer and an genuine masterpiece. One of the Hall of Famers, no debate.

what a load of POPPYCOCK! Control was really fun.

 

[Storyfag]

Did the author even write anything about Ciri? or is this videogame employee writing?

Ciri is a character from the original novels, if that is what you're asking.

 

[Wasteland]

Here's a blurb from Red Country, which I believe is book four of First Law:

Yea the standalone First Law books aren't very good but the original trilogy is great. You're missing out.

I'm sure that's true. I trust you. My post is a commentary on the environment that would entice a publisher to advertise a book with a blurb like that. A female protagonist is one thing--not to my taste, but at least hypothetically it's workable. But presenting a woman as some sort of grizzled Charles Bronson archetype, even if only in the marketing materials, is the height of cringe.

It seems the entire industry is geared around appealing to Twitter activists and tranny-adjacent reddit nerds. From what I've heard over the last few years, genre fiction is even worse in that respect than AAA gaming. Not that this comes as a surprise to any of us here, I'm just cataloguing yet another example.