But now that they’re together, they face a trickier question: What next? Geralt settles on taking Ciri to Kaer Morhen, his childhood home and where he trained as a witcher. Now that season two is finally here, the answer is “at least one more episode.” This is an extremely confident reintroduction to the Continent, checking in on all the major players before climaxing with The Witcher’s all-time best monster fight.Īll of The Witcher season one was building up to the moment when Geralt and Ciri would finally cross paths, as the bonds of fate dictated. With such urgent concerns, how much longer will the show have time for its weirder, rangier side? The season finale was largely centered on a big battle that sets the stage for an even bigger war between Nilfgaard and everybody else, with Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer at its center. ![]() By the end of season one, you could feel the weight of politics imposing itself on the story. I’m not sure how much longer The Witcher will maintain this balancing act. He’s already lived through three “world-ending” events, and his life is the same as it ever was. In the season-two premiere, when somebody suggests that recent ominous events might be a sign of the world ending, Geralt rolls his eyes. It treats all this stuff - even the casual revelation that underwhelming young sorceresses are turned into electric eels to power a magic tower - with unwavering sincerity.įortunately, the show is also smart enough to filter most of this through the perspective of Geralt of Rivia: a cranky vagabond who, like the show’s target audience, has already seen this shit many, many times before. On the one hand, this show could hardly be more overstuffed with by-the-book fantasy trappings: magic, elves, dragons, warring kingdoms, endless chatter about fate and prophecies and chosen ones. The key to the show’s success is that it’s figured out how to be both at the same time. Only in pre-production at the time, it was two or three years away at best, and promised to deliver the Witcher universe to an audience beyond fans of the RPG series.The Witcher has always been two shows: a deeply serious fantasy drama and a deeply silly fantasy drama. Sirius was announced in October last year alongside three other new Witcher games. "At this point in time, we are neither providing insight into the evaluation of the project nor the potential future frameworks thereof." It has denied the project is scrapped altogether, however, as senior communication manager Paweł Burza told IGN that "our current focus is ensuring that Project Sirius is aligned with the strategy of the CD PROJEKT Group. Game Over Thirty (aka Rall圜arDelta) March 20, 2023 Taking a charge indicates they want the expenses taken *NOW* because they serve no value to the company. It looks like they evaluated the commercial viability of the current design and decided against it. ![]() What this means for the game is currently unclear, though it is possible that CD Projekt Red has essentially reset development.ġ/ CD Projekt Group is taking an impairment charge on Project Sirius. An impairment charge is filed by a business to write off assets that have dropped in value or been lost completely. ![]() Twitter user Game Over Thirty (below) shared an announcement to investors from CD Projekt Red, indicating that all may not be well with one of the many upcoming Witcher games.
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