- The Witcher ended on a cutscene that sets up the events of The Witcher 2.
- The original writer says it wasn’t supposed to end like that, as they wanted an open ending.
- He wants CDPR to rewrite the ending with the upcoming The Witcher Remake.
The original Witcher was overall a brilliant game that is often overlooked and was pivotal as it brought Andrzej Sapkowski’s fictional world to video games. However, the game’s lead writer has an issue with the title.
The original writer says that The Witcher Remake should rewrite the game’s ending. The title ends with a CG ending, which sets up the events of The Witcher 2; however, it wasn’t supposed to end like that.
Why it matters: CDPR announced that The Witcher Remake is currently in development. Since the game is around 20 years old at this point, it flew under the radar of many and could now be reintroduced to a whole new generation.
While playing the epilogue of The Witcher, the game’s original story designer, Artur Ganszyniec, commented on how the game’s ending was supposed to go down. It was supposed to be open-ended, but “The Board” wanted it otherwise.
While we were finishing the game, the Board decided, or Michał Kiciński decided that we needed an animated outro of the game.
Instead of the cutscene, there was supposed to be an animatic that showed Geralt leaving for pastures with a folk-like narration; however, instead, the cutscene set up the Witcher 2 and its political plot.
Ganszyniec says none of the writers were informed, and the ending was just slapped on. He hopes that changes The Witcher Remake as the too high focus on politics didn’t leave room to explore Geralt in the sequel.
Logically, setting up events of the sequel does make more sense, but an open ending would’ve allowed Geralt to be explored more. Nonetheless, Ganszyniec says he hopes the Remake is actually a really good game.
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Abdullah is an avid gamer who primarily plays single-player titles. If you can’t find him anywhere, he’ll probably be at his desk playing The Witcher 3 for the millionth time. When he isn’t playing games, he’s either reading or writing about them.
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