Unlike The Witcher though, each of these women has her own purpose that the player is able to see. In Wild Hunt, Geralt still has plenty of casual sexual encounters alongside his long-term connections with Yennefer and Triss. In Assassins of Kings as well, Geralt's possible feelings for Triss are undercut by a small handful of women who won't have any permanence in his life. Despite having an ongoing relationship with either Triss or Shani, those more meaningful encounters are bedmates with a slew of forgettable trysts.
With Rozalind Pankiera, Geralt cleans up after his friend Dandelion's mistakes by retrieving the bard's lute and enjoying a bit of time with the woman himself.Įach of them, in theory, have their own stories and history but that the player never sees any of this gives them a different tone from Wild Hunt. The vampire Queen of the Night bestows a foursome with her fellow vampires on Geralt after a single conversation for the favor of not killing them. Morenn the dryad relents to Geralt's advances with the gift of a wolf pelt. They have a single purpose that entirely revolves around his use of them. In The Witcher, the majority of Geralt's lovers are akin to furniture. She's returned to her own main quest and Geralt was as much a conquest of hers as she was his. By morning the only trace of her is a note left behind. After a bumpy but successful heist, Sasha invites Geralt upstairs for the night. The gold is her ticket home and Geralt her convenient tool for acquiring it. After meeting at a Gwent tournament and conspiring together to steal the prize money, Sasha's true identity as a Nilfgaardian spy is revealed. Madame Sasha in particular, though only a brief stop along Geralt's path, is more than she seems. Even the characters that Geralt only meets briefly, Jutta An Dimun the swordswoman and Madame Sasha the Gwent master, have their own stories and motivations. The Witcher 3, without doing away with the saucy aspects, reframes Geralt's sexual encounters as a shared moment between two imperfect people rather than just a notch in Geralt's imaginary bedpost. He knows Shani, Kiera, Triss, and Yennefer intimately-even outside the bedroom. Even so, Wild Hunt's approach to romance focuses almost entirely on women with whom Geralt has lots of shared history. Even his reunion with Shani in the Hearts of Stone expansion is relegated to one moonlit night in a rowboat.
He can still enjoy the company of women in brothels. That doesn't mean that Geralt has given up on one-night stands. Mature in the sense that there's a lot more nudity on display, but also because it's more emotionally mature. Geralt's pursuit of sex in Wild Hunt is much more mature than the original and even Assassins of Kings. Geralt's dalliances with Ves the swordswoman or with Cynthia the spy do set the course for Wild Hunt where the white wolf's sexcapades are with women more often his equal. The second Witcher game attempts to set Geralt's relationship with the redheaded sorceress above the rest, though it's hard to buy into the narrative or emotional significance of Triss's romance when the other "romances" are largely treated as completely throwaway. The real marquee romance of Assassin of Kings is with Triss, who gets an entirely bespoke and spicy sex scene in an underground bath. Both are just convenient rest stops off the main relationship highway. Never one to miss out, I absolutely allowed Mottle the elven woman to "thank" Geralt for his heroism in Act 2 and accepted recompense for saving a succubus in the only currency that succubi apparently trade in. Geralt's casual encounters still mostly focus on this-for-that arrangements with unimportant sidequest characters or on opportunistic flings. The Witcher 2, released in 2011, functioned as a strong but cautious step towards the romantic epics of Wild Hunt. The Witcher went from vending machine women dispensing pinups as rewards to beautiful characters with backstories and love scenes pulled from romantic dramas. Jumping from The Witcher to The Witcher 3, with its vastly superior character models, voice acting, and combat were not the only bits to give me whiplash. Despite Triss and Shani's importance, they still wind up feeling more like collectibles than characters. Unfortunately, though, some combination of writing, acting, and animation still gives away the game's age. Both enjoy special status in a very small group of women with custom 3D cutscenes preceding the reveal of their romance card. The Witcher does attempt to do right by the two romances that span multiple in-game acts with Shani or Triss Merigold.
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