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The coolest thing about this cinematic is that it's a perfect adaptation of the first fight scene in the anthology book 'The Last Wish'. Every single detail is directly ripped from the book, and it was a remarkable experience realizing that while reading it for the first time.
To be precise, this is from the first ever short story of the series, simply called The Witcher from 1986. The Last Wish is a collection released in 1993.
The trick about the striga: you have to keep it from returning into its grave/coffin until sunset to break the curse on it if I remember correctly. they adapted that scene so damn well from the books, it's fantastic!
You found the beat that I think is the most important in this little story. Geralt knew he cannot fight her throuh a whole night. He chose to show that he can be as brutal and animalistic as the striga he just holds back. When the striga realized this she fled. The princess was a striga for her entire life up to this point so she had no proper human interaction she can't even talk so when she turned back she was frightened by Geralt and instinctually attacked him and by sheer circumstance her unkept long nail tore a good bit of Geralt's neck. And as mentioned in an other comment the yellow power from Geralt's hand was Aard.
Love first game for the atmosphere and third one for gameplay and story. I mean, third game have cool cities, places where you can feel like you are indeed in living town, but i think sound design was better in first one, that's why you can just dissolve in the ambiance of this world.
So the princess was turned to stryga while she was 5 years old or something like that and she stayed cursed for more than 10 years. When the curse is lifted she is physically human, but on a mental level she is more animal than human
No she was I believe stillborn, and the corpse of the little girl never dicomposed, and around the time she would have been 7 I think it was, first emerged from her coffin as a Striga, which is why the castle/town is abandoned.
This is still my favorite game intro from the series. It so fits the book Geralt..,the movement, the character design, the environment.... everything. You understand so much about him, his world, and the story, just from watching.
When he stops the spell keeping her at bay, it's on purpose, so she crashes behind him as he steps aside. Hence the smile before he immediately starts climbing. The Striga has the mind of a young teenage girl, and is inexperienced in fighting anything other than easy prey. He is not easy prey.
The opening cinematic was just amazing for it's time and even today it still holds up, that's quality work by who ever made it. If I remember correctly in the book while she reverted back into a human form for the most part she still had the mentality and talons of the monster until he managed to force even that to surrender and release the little girl that had always been inside.
The "sunshine" part where Geralt is casting something is that he used telekinetic punch equivalent and maintained it (that's why the striga struggles to move towards him) and releases it while moving to the side so it hits itself in the confusion pretty much.
6:29 In the Last Wish, there was a mental battle on top of the physical one. When I saw that before I started reading the books, I found it confusing, but now I think they portrayed the internal battle rather well just using the facial expressions and camera
That magic thing he was doing was not the light of the Sun, it was actually an Aard sign, one of the few simple magic "spells" used by witchers. Aard is a telekinetic one, a blastwave, used when a witcher wants an enemy to get away from him or to fall for a moment or when he wants to destroy some obstacle. He stopped casting Aard when she was close to him so she would fall forward because of the strength she had to put into getting close to him through that blastwave. It's interesting when you say that you started to think that Geralt was an actual monster xD that's exactly what people of this universe called him through all the books. Knowing him, almost personally (I read all books few times, even as a kid, because I'm Polish and a fan even from before The Witcher got famous, and I played the games too), I can tell that appearances are deceptive.
Sorry, but its not Aard. Its Igni, the flame sign. If it's Aard, his sign will be like "middle finger bent inwards" and other four fingers stretched straight.
@@bmak237 then why there is no single flame on strigas clothes and hair or on a grass? Geralt was instructed not to hurt her. Even if he got the green light from her father, Foltest, to kill her in self defense, he was instructed to do as little as possible damage to her. After all, she was the only heir to the Temerian throne. Every second of this cinematic is literally written in the book - The Last Wish. And it so happens that I have the book in front of me. Geralt used in this fight only two signs, Aard in a moment I was describing, to push striga away and to let her fall forward when he suddenly broke it, and Yrden to seal the sarcophagus of Adda, strigas mother, when he lied down next to her mummified corpse to spend the night in a manor and in result to disenchant the curse that transformed her dead daughter into a striga 7 years after they both died. I can rewrite you the exact quote from the book, so you can literally read what Sapkowski wrote, but it's in Polish, so copy paste it into a google translate. "Łańcuch pękł, srebrne ogniwa, jak deszcz, sypnęły się na wszystkie strony, dzwoniąc po kamieniu. Zaślepiona wściekłością strzyga runęła do ataku, wyjąc. Geralt czekał spokojnie, uniesioną prawą dłonią kreślił przed sobą Znak Aard. Strzyga poleciała w tył kilka kroków jak uderzona młotem, ale utrzymała się na nogach, wyciągnęła szpony, obnażyła kły. Jej włosy uniosły się i załopotały, jak gdyby szła pod gwałtowny wiatr. Z trudem, charcząc, krok po kroku, powoli szła. Jednak szła. Geralt zaniepokoił się. Nie oczekiwał, że tak prosty Znak zupełnie sparaliżuje strzygę, ale i nie spodziewał się, że bestia pokona opór tak łatwo. Nie mógł trzymać Znaku zbyt długo, było to za bardzo wyczerpujące, a strzyga miała już do przebycia nie więcej niż dziesięć kroków. Raptownie zdjął Znak i odskoczył w bok. Tak jak oczekiwał, zaskoczona strzyga poleciała naprzód, straciła równowagę, przewróciła się, pośliznęła na posadzce i stoczyła w dół po schodach, w ziejący w podłodze otwór wejścia do krypty. Z dołu rozległo się jej potępieńcze wycie."
@@bmak237 The short story it's adapted from terms it as waves of force, not waves of heat or fire, hence why he's able to sucker the Striga by forcing it to exert itself to gain ground to reach him, then effectively THROW itself forward when he cuts off the force the Striga was struggling against. The stories don't have the fully developed structure for each sign that the games have developed, and this cinematic is kind of a case of early installment weirdness... but this definitely isn't an application of Igni. It's more likely to be Aard.
@@caffeinedelusions as I said, it is definitely Aard, because this cinematic is practically a video replica of what Sapkowski wrote in the book, not "early installment weirdness".
@@karinawolniak8440 The 'Early Installment Weirdness' is the change in hand posture between what's used in the cinematic for this application of 'Aard' and the hand sign for 'Aard' in the actual gameplay for the three games (which was what bmak237 had focused on as the reason it couldn't possibly be Aard, despite the effect and literary description being very explicitly Aard). It's been a minute since I've gone over the actual text, so I'm not sure if Sapkowski calls the Sign by name... but I know he's never specific about what the hand gestures for each effect ARE, so those are elements that the game devs had to invent for their rendition of the setting.
I think something went wrong with the intro. I was hesitant to play the original Witcher game, but I got it anyway when they announced the sequel. I'm glad I did because I liked it more than I expected. At first it feels very basic, but once you unlock more moves, it's surprisingly rhythmic. Also, decisions you made in the game carried over to Witcher 2. Then there's the dice minigame. It's pretty cool how they went from that to Gwent in the third game.
Ciri is my favorite character in The Witcher. She's powerful and charismatic but also vulnerable. The relationship that develops between her and Geralt just satisfies something in my dark little soul.
The series is a failure. The best proof is that ultra-fan of the Witcher Henry Cavill left the series. If you want to meet a real witcher, I recommend books, comics and games.
The Witcher 3 is my favorite game of all time, it would be a 9.95, and Cyberpunk 2077 would be a 9.94. The Witcher wins due to a more emotional storyline but only by that tiny amount. The Witcher Netflix was very disappointing. Not happy with the changes at all.
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The coolest thing about this cinematic is that it's a perfect adaptation of the first fight scene in the anthology book 'The Last Wish'. Every single detail is directly ripped from the book, and it was a remarkable experience realizing that while reading it for the first time.
To be precise, this is from the first ever short story of the series, simply called The Witcher from 1986. The Last Wish is a collection released in 1993.
Well not exactly - Striga looks completely different
The trick about the striga: you have to keep it from returning into its grave/coffin until sunset to break the curse on it if I remember correctly.
they adapted that scene so damn well from the books, it's fantastic!
You found the beat that I think is the most important in this little story. Geralt knew he cannot fight her throuh a whole night. He chose to show that he can be as brutal and animalistic as the striga he just holds back. When the striga realized this she fled. The princess was a striga for her entire life up to this point so she had no proper human interaction she can't even talk so when she turned back she was frightened by Geralt and instinctually attacked him and by sheer circumstance her unkept long nail tore a good bit of Geralt's neck.
And as mentioned in an other comment the yellow power from Geralt's hand was Aard.
Love first game for the atmosphere and third one for gameplay and story. I mean, third game have cool cities, places where you can feel like you are indeed in living town, but i think sound design was better in first one, that's why you can just dissolve in the ambiance of this world.
The first game is trully something. I will never forget the time I spend in that world, as something mysterious and nostalgic.
So the princess was turned to stryga while she was 5 years old or something like that and she stayed cursed for more than 10 years. When the curse is lifted she is physically human, but on a mental level she is more animal than human
No she was I believe stillborn, and the corpse of the little girl never dicomposed, and around the time she would have been 7 I think it was, first emerged from her coffin as a Striga, which is why the castle/town is abandoned.
This is still my favorite game intro from the series. It so fits the book Geralt..,the movement, the character design, the environment.... everything.
You understand so much about him, his world, and the story, just from watching.
When he stops the spell keeping her at bay, it's on purpose, so she crashes behind him as he steps aside. Hence the smile before he immediately starts climbing. The Striga has the mind of a young teenage girl, and is inexperienced in fighting anything other than easy prey. He is not easy prey.
The opening cinematic was just amazing for it's time and even today it still holds up, that's quality work by who ever made it.
If I remember correctly in the book while she reverted back into a human form for the most part she still had the mentality and talons of the monster until he managed to force even that to surrender and release the little girl that had always been inside.
What video to check from Witcher? All of them. But "Killing Monsters" and "A Night to Remember" are must watch
He left the casket a tad too early. The first rays of the sun hadn't fully appeared.
The first part is incredibly atmospheric, of course.
The "sunshine" part where Geralt is casting something is that he used telekinetic punch equivalent and maintained it (that's why the striga struggles to move towards him) and releases it while moving to the side so it hits itself in the confusion pretty much.
Witcher 1 was my first game that I played and its the best for me, pure nostalgia
Poor Ada
6:29 In the Last Wish, there was a mental battle on top of the physical one. When I saw that before I started reading the books, I found it confusing, but now I think they portrayed the internal battle rather well just using the facial expressions and camera
That magic thing he was doing was not the light of the Sun, it was actually an Aard sign, one of the few simple magic "spells" used by witchers. Aard is a telekinetic one, a blastwave, used when a witcher wants an enemy to get away from him or to fall for a moment or when he wants to destroy some obstacle. He stopped casting Aard when she was close to him so she would fall forward because of the strength she had to put into getting close to him through that blastwave.
It's interesting when you say that you started to think that Geralt was an actual monster xD that's exactly what people of this universe called him through all the books. Knowing him, almost personally (I read all books few times, even as a kid, because I'm Polish and a fan even from before The Witcher got famous, and I played the games too), I can tell that appearances are deceptive.
Sorry, but its not Aard. Its Igni, the flame sign. If it's Aard, his sign will be like "middle finger bent inwards" and other four fingers stretched straight.
@@bmak237 then why there is no single flame on strigas clothes and hair or on a grass? Geralt was instructed not to hurt her. Even if he got the green light from her father, Foltest, to kill her in self defense, he was instructed to do as little as possible damage to her. After all, she was the only heir to the Temerian throne. Every second of this cinematic is literally written in the book - The Last Wish. And it so happens that I have the book in front of me. Geralt used in this fight only two signs, Aard in a moment I was describing, to push striga away and to let her fall forward when he suddenly broke it, and Yrden to seal the sarcophagus of Adda, strigas mother, when he lied down next to her mummified corpse to spend the night in a manor and in result to disenchant the curse that transformed her dead daughter into a striga 7 years after they both died. I can rewrite you the exact quote from the book, so you can literally read what Sapkowski wrote, but it's in Polish, so copy paste it into a google translate.
"Łańcuch pękł, srebrne ogniwa, jak deszcz, sypnęły się na wszystkie strony, dzwoniąc po kamieniu. Zaślepiona wściekłością strzyga runęła do ataku, wyjąc. Geralt czekał spokojnie, uniesioną prawą dłonią kreślił przed sobą Znak Aard.
Strzyga poleciała w tył kilka kroków jak uderzona młotem, ale utrzymała się na nogach, wyciągnęła szpony, obnażyła kły. Jej włosy uniosły się i załopotały, jak gdyby szła pod gwałtowny wiatr. Z trudem, charcząc, krok po kroku, powoli szła. Jednak szła.
Geralt zaniepokoił się. Nie oczekiwał, że tak prosty Znak zupełnie sparaliżuje strzygę, ale i nie spodziewał się, że bestia pokona opór tak łatwo. Nie mógł trzymać Znaku zbyt długo, było to za bardzo wyczerpujące, a strzyga miała już do przebycia nie więcej niż dziesięć kroków. Raptownie zdjął Znak i odskoczył w bok. Tak jak oczekiwał, zaskoczona strzyga poleciała naprzód, straciła równowagę, przewróciła się, pośliznęła na posadzce i stoczyła w dół po schodach, w ziejący w podłodze otwór wejścia do krypty. Z dołu rozległo się jej potępieńcze wycie."
@@bmak237 The short story it's adapted from terms it as waves of force, not waves of heat or fire, hence why he's able to sucker the Striga by forcing it to exert itself to gain ground to reach him, then effectively THROW itself forward when he cuts off the force the Striga was struggling against.
The stories don't have the fully developed structure for each sign that the games have developed, and this cinematic is kind of a case of early installment weirdness... but this definitely isn't an application of Igni. It's more likely to be Aard.
@@caffeinedelusions as I said, it is definitely Aard, because this cinematic is practically a video replica of what Sapkowski wrote in the book, not "early installment weirdness".
@@karinawolniak8440 The 'Early Installment Weirdness' is the change in hand posture between what's used in the cinematic for this application of 'Aard' and the hand sign for 'Aard' in the actual gameplay for the three games (which was what bmak237 had focused on as the reason it couldn't possibly be Aard, despite the effect and literary description being very explicitly Aard). It's been a minute since I've gone over the actual text, so I'm not sure if Sapkowski calls the Sign by name... but I know he's never specific about what the hand gestures for each effect ARE, so those are elements that the game devs had to invent for their rendition of the setting.
The music was marvellous in this game.
very detailed motion capture CD Projekt Red uses to do Geralt's combat scenes.
I think something went wrong with the intro.
I was hesitant to play the original Witcher game, but I got it anyway when they announced the sequel. I'm glad I did because I liked it more than I expected. At first it feels very basic, but once you unlock more moves, it's surprisingly rhythmic. Also, decisions you made in the game carried over to Witcher 2.
Then there's the dice minigame. It's pretty cool how they went from that to Gwent in the third game.
Another amazing video 🖤
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Ciri is my favorite character in The Witcher. She's powerful and charismatic but also vulnerable. The relationship that develops between her and Geralt just satisfies something in my dark little soul.
She is awesome, I need to finish Witcher 3 sometime to see the rest of her story!
dang didn't know they added Geralt to Genshin.
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Lolll thank you!
Now compare this scene (pretty true to the book) with that Netflix garbage
Actually the tv show was pre game
Try books. The best fantasy ever written. IMHO obviously. ;)
The Real Geralt
This intro was OK, but the Witcher 1 outro is 5 times better. Just saying.
15:59 she isn’t a creature anymore, but she was born a striga and had never lived as a human
The series is a failure. The best proof is that ultra-fan of the Witcher Henry Cavill left the series. If you want to meet a real witcher, I recommend books, comics and games.
The Witcher 3 is my favorite game of all time, it would be a 9.95, and Cyberpunk 2077 would be a 9.94. The Witcher wins due to a more emotional storyline but only by that tiny amount.
The Witcher Netflix was very disappointing. Not happy with the changes at all.
Imagine make better trailer (and accurate with books) than whole Netflix show...