Comment on Useless rant about Witcher 3 romance
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 5 days ago
The whole triss vs yen thing was lazy fanservice added by CDPR. If you read the books, it’s clear Geralt is destined to be with Yen. The books make this abundantly clear. It was makes crystal that Geralt thinks of Triss like a little sister, not romantically.
Lojcs@lemm.ee 5 days ago
I really don’t care about the book. If anything his relationship with Yen feels like pondering to the book audience without much of a setup out explanation in-game
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 5 days ago
I mean… The game has numerous book references. It exists you to have read then. Half the characters and references are from the books. So not sure why it’s the yen part that specifically bugs you :-)
Lojcs@lemm.ee 4 days ago
As far as I understand the games aren’t book cannon right? Then let the books not be game cannon. It is unreasonable for the books to be required reading between witcher 2 and 3 or even to expect the audience to know to read them.
A never before seen character from the books showing up in the game doesn’t bother me because they’re new and they’re explored as if they’re new characters. Yen bugs me because she’s a new character to me but as soon as they meet in Skelliga, her and Geralt get back together as if nothing has changed since the books. On the other hand Triss is an established character who has a history with Geralt that I know of, but now both are giving each other the cold shoulder without explanation.
In terms of Triss and Yen the books don’t give context to the status quo. They become the status quo.
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 4 days ago
The books are canon for the games, yes. The games are not canon. Idk what else to say. I played W2 and 3 originally without having read the books. It didn’t seem weird in W3 because W2 was spent looking for her the entire game. And it gave clues about their history. After having read the books W3 makes even more sense since I understood more about the characters. There is nothing unreasonable about how they did that game. The game is totally fine without having tead the books. But I am telling you that it makes more sense if you did.