Posted on: February 7, 2021

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Better and much worse than I thought
I'm trying not to go in depth, but in brief I avoided this series until now, due to the reputation for titillation and being excessively 'grimdark'. Now that I'm finally playing it, my biggest problem is not the 'power fantasy', where you are enjoying a young boy's fantasy of every female character in the game wanting to get into your pants. The sex cards from W1 didn't bother me. My problem is the other side of it - OK, you're playing through a power fantasy, all the women want you and are young / beautiful / dressed in revealing clothing, fine! But why does it all seem so miserable? Why are women constantly getting called or calling each other b****es and s**ts and w***es? Why is it every woman in a position of 'power' is called sexual slurs or has her sexual availability commented on? Is that a key part of the fantasy? Is it hard to imagine women choosing to sleep with you if they also feel valued and respected for things beyond their sexuality? Or is this all for the sake of realism? But does it make sense to argue that it was 'for the sake of realism' when we are also fighting magical monsters and shooting fire from our hands? If this is what you imagine might bother you as well about a game like this, I found Witcher 2 to be a much worse offender than Witcher 1. At least that game was silly and juvenile about it. This game dials up the angst to 11, especially when it comes to the 'grimdark' fates of almost all of the major female characters. The constant side remarks 'must be her time of the month' 'time to go to the brothel again' 'phew we can talk freely now that the women are gone' etc are just the cherry on top. It might be 'realistic' or it might not but again, if we can shoot fire from our hands, clearly there have been some editorial choices about what 'realism' is and isn't integral to this fantasy.
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