The Witcher 4 Needs To Have Women With More Than One Body Type

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The Witcher 4 is coming! Sorry, I meant that initial confirmation of the next saga in The Witcher franchise is coming! Let’s not get carried away with attaching numerical quantifiers to our video games now, once we start calling the fourth Witcher game The Witcher 4 society will inevitably begin to fall apart.

Besides, I imagine CD Projekt Red has a fairly good reason for this, likely poised to begin an entirely new series of titles that have little to do with Geralt of Rivia. I’m excited, but I hope it makes some much-needed changes in how it has long depicted certain characters.

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Whether The Witcher 4 (I’m sorry I can’t help it) follows Ciri on a bespoke adventure or seeks to depict an entirely new world and cast of characters, I hope it takes a step to address its aggressively heteronormative relationship with women. Ever since the first game, female characters in the series have often been seen as sexual objects, eventual conquests for Geralt to pursue that will result in a sex scene that feels very vintage BioWare. Good job you followed through on the questline, now it’s time for some tiddies.

Now I love some tiddies, don't get me wrong, but The Witcher has always felt like it was designed by white men with a conventional idea of attraction and how that will appeal to a certain demographic. It’s true that Triss and Yennefer are both excellent and empowering characters in their own right, and have fascinating stories to tell throughout the entire trilogy. Their personalities are so different too, offering varied perspectives on the conflicts engulfing this fantasy world and why coming together with Geralt to form an uneasy alliance is the best way forward. But