The lead story designer on the unique Witcher sport says the story workforce had nothing to do with its twist ending.
The primary sport ends with a CG cutscene wherein protagonist Geralt defends King Foltest from an murderer. After the murderer is killed, it’s revealed that they’re a witcher.
The twist then leads onto the second sport, therefore its full title The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, however lead story designer Artur Ganszyniec says this wasn’t speculated to be the ending.
Ganszyniec has simply completed enjoying via everything of the sport in a 26-part video sequence on YouTube (as noticed by PC Gamer), offering his commentary on the whole sport from the angle of its lead author.
As the ultimate cutscene rolls on the finish of the ultimate half, Ganszyniec reveals that the sport’s story workforce knew nothing about it.
The earlier cutscene, which consists of nonetheless art work with a voiceover, has Geralt leaving Vizima and ends with the narrated line: “What then occurred to the Witcher? That could be a completely different story completely.” In keeping with Ganszyniec, that was speculated to be the place the credit rolled, however the additional CG cutscene was then added with out their information.
“That’s the place we needed the sport to finish, with an open query and open future,” he defined. “However whereas we had been ending the sport, somebody determined – the board determined or Michał Kiciński determined – that we wanted an animated outro for the sport.
“And the script for what we’re seeing now, this animation, was created not likely involving the story workforce. It was kind of… we weren’t actually paying consideration.”
Ganszyniec says he thinks the choice to finish with this cliffhanger was the unsuitable one, as a result of it pressured the second sport down a path the story workforce wasn’t planning on happening.
“That was a mistake, I feel, as a result of this animation tells a special story than the outro footage,” he defined, “as a result of Geralt continues to be in Vizima, and he’s deep into political intrigue, as a result of somebody is attempting to kill Foltest, and there’s somebody [who], as you will note, is a Witcher.
“And shortly after that it turned evident that the subsequent sport must comply with up on this, and inform a narrative about Witchers who’re killing kings for some purpose. And that’s why the second Witcher could be very political and there’s not likely room for exploring who Geralt is, his household, his historical past and stuff like this.”
Regardless of the sport not ending as his workforce had initially deliberate, Ganszyniec ends his 26-part video sequence by saying: “Let’s hope that the remake shall be a extremely good sport.”
CD Projekt introduced again in 2022 a “full-fledged remake” of The Witcher had entered manufacturing, and could be an open-world sport “rebuilt from the group up” in Unreal Engine 5.
