Since the "Ciri ugly" complaints were too ridiculous they are switching to lore reasons

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I don't go around discoursing about video games, but if I was gonna make a Ciri game, I wouldn't make her a fuckin' witcher.
She can hop dimensions and teleport, for fucks sake there's a much more interesting story to be had than what the trailer indicates they're doing.
Really am not thrilled by this, but I'm still gonna play this slop and this is genuinely me being a weirdo about the lore and knowing what kind of potential her character has - "witcher" is the most boring thing they could've done.
But dont lump me in with the g*mers i dont care that much and i still adore ciri lol
- Caring about video games is ok. The difference is that the point you're making isn't based on a genocidal need for erasure of certain people
- I'm trying to remember if Ciri taking the witcher concoction is canon (the books) or fake (the game). It's been too long to remember and I'm not reading all that again lol.
  They should have just pissed everyone off and made a spin-off about Regis the Vampire.
  
  As best I can recall (as someone who read all the books and played all the games), Ciri never underwent the mutations in either the books or the game. In one of the endings of W3, she becomes a "Witcher" but imo it was always implied that she was just going to use her own ludicrously overpowered abilities and didn't really need the potions etc.
  
  I think that at this point its more like canon (the games) or fake (the books), or ultra-canon (the tv show).
  
  Games are more canon than books at this point. Sapkowski didn't wrote anything even remotely good in this setting since 1996 and is now just old vodka-marinated hateful fossl that should just shut up.
  
  If i understand the matter the games all take place after the books and build on the book's stories.
- Obvious arc for any character that's lost their mysterious powers: they get their powers back. Maybe cope but I doubt they'd just do geralt-like abilities for her progression, she'll have some sort of unique mechanic
- "witcher" is the most boring thing they could've done.
  maybe it's a bait and switch and this is just marketing for casuals
- Geralt's role as "the witcher" separates him from normal society and forces him to be a rootless outsider so he can wander around giving the audience an outsiders perspective on the violences and prejudices of the world around him.
  Putting Ciri in a similar role is a literary conceit. If they want her to wander around meeting weird people, helping them with their problems, and sleeping with them she needs a reason why she's wandering the countryside instead of doing important elf princess of magical girl destiny stuff.
- Imo the decision to make her a witcher makes sense so long as the method used to give her mutations are justifiable. She wanted to be a sorceress like Yennefer and always looked up to Geralt as a witcher.
  I do agree that they're fumbling a bit to not focus on her ability to world hop tho as I really wanted to see the Arthurian legend through Ciri's eyes.

https://hexbear.net/comment/5747801
by @BeamBrain@hexbear.net is an excellent quick breakdown how these hogs are all outrage tourists that never play the games they get mad about.

This meme is likely disingenuous. At the very least it is confused.
At the end of the Witcher 3, Ciri becomes a Witcher (the profession, a person who hunts monsters). The complaint is that she is a Witcher (a mutant, a person who has been mutated by monster dna), which doesn’t make much sense because she already has better-than-witcher magic powers, and is already able to drink Witcher potions (which she mentions at the end of Witcher 3, while not a mutant).
- One of the possible endings is her doing that.
  Another is her dying and Gerald seeking revenge for her death.
  Another is her taking the mantle as Empress of Nilfgaard.
  
  Indeed. Not sure what that has to do with this post though, which is clearly pointing to the witcheress ending (her profession) as evidence for her becoming a Witcher (a mutant).
  
  Well given she's not dead or crowned but is the title character in W4 we can safely assume which ending of W3 is canon.

TBH I got the platinum like a sweaty nerd and don't remember shit about the main story either. I think she started teleporting at some point so that was neat
- I feel like I did a 120% run of it but never actually got to the final 2 missions after doing everything in all the DLCs burning out, redoing all of it again a couple years later, burning out again, and then just kinda accepting that I already kinda spoiled the endings for myself and then fully spoiled myself.
  
  I burned out during that DLC everyone loves and wouldn't shut up about

Call of Duty and its consequences have been a disaster for the gaming industry.

Is the Witcher 3 any good? Is it too horny?
- its kinda horny but I think you have to choose to do the horny things
  
  Is it like:
  Press F to horny
  Continue storyline for horny
  options?
- It's really good.

Ciri is already OP. Why go through the painful Trial_of_the_Grasses and be infertile. Geralt and Yen spent quite a lot just to have a child and it's hard to imagine Ciri chose the trial.
- Also Ciri undoubtedly has trauma surrounding fertility and pregnancy. In the books she was repeatedly captured by people who only wanted her in order to give birth to another child of the elder blood.
  Thinking on it, they could further justify it by having ciri decide to become infertile to avoid others from trying to capture her and force her to conceive a child of the elder blood.
- To follow in Geralt's footsteps imo. She was always adventurous even without the threat of the wild hunt after her. She may also not want to use her elder blood powers to avoid the Wild Hunt/the Aen Elle discovering her again.
- maybe she just wanted those creepy eyes

I think Ciri as a witcher is such a good avenue for exploring how she deals with her existential angst and hatred for so many things in the world. She’s opinionated and she doesn’t care who knows it. Fuckin Doom slayer in Witcher’s clothes. Let’s see it

well im not a chud and i didnt like that, i would be ok if this was another gray haired woman that happens to look like ciri but not ciri. that story already had closure give us new characters!

I mean, technically, she's not a witcher since she never went through with the mutations whixh are required.
However, considering shes basically a demi-god, she's probably fine lmao

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