Book or game? (The Witcher)
What's better?Master Corwin
Now it's clear, but I'm not very happy with the fact that this is so ((
The last two fan books, you 8 and 9, are related to the game?
These are not books, these are two small stories - "Something will end, something will begin" and "The Road without Return". There is no canon in them and even with books they have little connection. So you can read.
The game, as conceived by the developers, was not supposed to be a continuation of the history of the Geralt / Yennefer / Cyril relationship.However
, Triss from the game is actually copied from Yennifer (especially in the third chapter), right down to the key lines, and has little in common with the book Triss, but Alvin works as Ciri. And in general, it's a shame to the scriptwriters, who ripped up whole chunks of dialogues from the book, without taking care of their relevance, because they themselves could perfectly create a new one.
Sveige, you're a little wrong - "The Road to No Return" is related to the Saga. The main character in "The Road" is Visenna, and her companion is Corinne, a mercenary, a swashbuckler. In the Saga, after Geralt almost died in a fight with a bunch of creatures, the villagers (from one of the villages that the cart of Yurgi saved by Geralt was passing by) recall that a magic healer stopped nearby. She is urgently summoned to Geralt, she arrives, and during the treatment it turns out (for those who can read between the lines) that she is Geralt's mother.
"Something ends, something begins" - it is connected with the Saga only by the characters. The story itself is not the finale of the Saga, it was written by Sapek, I quote: "for the sake of the fans ...".
And in general, a shame to the scriptwriters, who distorted whole chunks of dialogues from the book.
The script of the game was subjected to the most careful control on the part of Sapkowski, he mentioned it. The dialogues, apparently, were ripped off in order to bring the feeling of deja vu into the game - and thus, to give mystery to the plot itself - Geralt's loss of memory and its gradual restoration.
Now it's clear, but I'm not very happy with the fact that this is so ((
Nothing can be done. The game is not about what happened to Ciri and Yennefer after the pogrom, but about what happened to Geralt. We are waiting for the second part Maybe there will be something related to them. Or maybe in the third - I have almost no doubt that it will be, such brands do not just leave.
I don't know to read them, or not ... I was told that can spoil the impression.
Read necessarily a "road." - independent work, very cool to write "something ends ...." - sort of a variation on the "happy ending in the saga of the Witcher" Sapek wrote it just for. those fans who really wanted Geralt and Yennefer to get married.
Master Corwin
We are waiting for the second part. Maybe there will be something related to them. And maybe in the third - I have almost no doubt that it will be, such brands do not just give up.
Your words, but the developers would be in the head)))
In general, I want to say that not so long ago I tried to read Sapkowski's books, I didn’t like it at all. Some kind of nonsense, in general there is no interest in reading, there is no intrigue and plot either ((the
game is much better)
naemnik17 Some nonsense, in general there is no interest in reading, there is no intrigue and plot either
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In the recognized masterpiece of world fiction there is no plot and intrigue ??? Why say such nonsense, it's just not your book, and realistic science fiction is not your genre, so you didn't like it.
MgVolkolak, well, at least it seemed to me so in the book "Sword of Destiny" ..
naemnik17, hmm ... I also understand - I don't like the design of the world, the real fantasy genre itself (not science fiction, Volkolak, fantasy, let me correct you), the author's style, etc. But to consider that in the Saga about the Witcher there is neither a plot nor intrigue ... Even critics of Sapkowski (and there are such, although there are very few of them) - and they admit: the subject is famously twisted. In terms of the degree of twist, Saga is in the first place in the world niche of this genre.
Well, at least it seemed to me so in the book "Sword of Destiny" ..
So you read the whole Saga.
Well, all the same, his books are not for everyone, I was not hooked and that was all, but with the plot and intrigue, I confess, I went too far.
Not hooked - that's another question. Everyone has their own tastes, that's true.
Probably, all the same, the book, the game, despite the fact that I really liked it, does not hold out. No, for the little things it is quite (and sometimes very) good, but the main plot squeezed drop by drop to the finale honestly disappointed. I was somehow not inspired by the crowds of successful and unsuccessful experiments of gene-mutational engineering running against the background of the pastoral Middle Ages, as well as traveling to the future, half asleep, half-awake. It's not difficult to find the tails of all this in books, just remember Geralt himself (even that mutant) and the ash-haired-green-eyed Child of the Elder Blood, but unlike the game there, it made the universe more complicated and mysterious than it seemed at first glance, but in the game, in my opinion greatly spoils the impression.
but unlike the game there, it made the universe more complicated and mysterious than it seemed at first glance.
Well said, respect.
The book, of course, after reading, already like those friends of Geralt that in the game, well, except for Zoltan, are not such friends when compared with those that went on a hike with Geralt in the book.
I learned the game from a friend who doesn’t happen on this site, I found out about the book a year later, for me the game is better, but in the books they say that most of them are lies and privelechin.