I’d be lying if I said my chocolate senses, sharpened by this 2024, weren’t tingling.
As I was saying earlier to the cultured truck, the patterns have become almost instantly recognizable, and 9 times out of 10, they’re spot on. There’s definitely something uncanny here, though perhaps it’s just bias... unlike Intergalactic, for example, which is clearly aimed at a target audience that I’m not part of.
Aside from Ciri’s “uglification,” which can be justified in heavy quotation marks, and the girl-boss “I know better than you” vibes, the trailer lacks the impact that, for instance, Witcher 3’s trailer had.
It seems like "artists" in the industry these days can’t manage to be dark or gritty even if they wanted to, everything has to be sanitized and watered down. Maybe they’re afraid of offending anyone, but as a result, the viciousness that a dark medieval world like this one should have, especially in this IP, is sorely missing.
It reminds me of how, for example, in Veilguard, they removed spiders because they scared arachnophobes... which, to me, is absurd. It makes me worry that we won’t see anything truly good coming out of the West anytime soon. The public sentiment has shifted, but the studios are heavily infiltrated by talentless freaks who only got there thanks to privileged selection methods.
Anyway, for me, at this point, I’d say it’s a hard pass, especially since they haven’t even shown any gameplay. If they can’t even put together a convincing trailer, it definitely doesn’t raise any hopes for the game.
