My only exposure to The Witcher is from the advertisement crossover quest in Monster Hunter World. The quest was cracking me up the whole time because Geralt was so stereotypical “cool grizzled guy” in his dialogue and voice acting that I half expected him to say “Psssh… Nothin Personnel… Kid…”
Is he this much of a weenie in The Witcher 3 or did Monster Hunter do him dirty?
hes fantasy batman crossed with forest gump, a mary sue ‘the best ever at fighting’ character and master detective who ‘tries to stay out of politics’ but ends up being involved in every important thing that ever happens anywhere, and gets the opportunity to fuck every woman mage in the land. every person in the setting that isn’t also a witcher or a mage rightfully sees him as an inhuman monster, it does the x-men thing where it portrays the superhuman monster-people as ‘oppressed minorities’, meanwhile accidentally justifying their oppression by making them actually materially physically very dangerous to those around them. early in the 3rd game these 3 human guys will team up on the witcher for making a politically controversial statement, expecting a bit of a scuffle or fist fight brawl, and he decapitates them all with his superhuman sword skills. they were unarmed.
he gets crippled by a mage with a stick. he gets killed by a peasant with a pitchfork. he is repeatedly put on the back foot by regular ass dudes.
he’s literally just a human, the myth that witchers are some kind of monster comes from the fact that many of them turned to banditry in order to survive because they had already hunted all the monsters (there are a finite number of monsters in the world since they are extradimensional beings that don’t breed). geralt is constantly starving because he doesn’t have any money because he’s above banditry.