The Witches 3: A Fresh Take on the Witcher Remake
The highly anticipated remake of The Witcher is on its way and fans can expect some significant changes. The studio working on the remake has announced that they plan to “remove” certain parts of the original game that are “simply bad, outdated, or unnecessarily complicated.” The Witcher remake was announced in October 2022 and is being developed by Rebel Wolves, a studio made up of veterans from CD Projekt Red. However, CEO Jakub Rokosz expresses his disappointment that he couldn’t work on the first installment of the Geralt trilogy, stating, “It always bothered me that I skipped the first part. I wanted a chance to do it justice, as it deserves.”
The Witcher holds the status of a cult classic, with some truly excellent parts of the storyline. However, recommending it in 2024 is difficult, personally I would recommend The Witcher 2, but The Witcher 3 is also an excellent starting point. The game faces difficulties in various aspects, including outdated visuals, gameplay, and pacing, as well as tonal elements that stirred controversy in 2007 and will likely not be included in the remake.
Rokosz is already targeting some of these aspects, stating, “First and foremost, we need an honest and pragmatic analysis of which parts are simply bad, outdated, and in need of remastering.” At the same time, they will choose “what is excellent, should be preserved, or forms important pillars that cannot be ignored.” It doesn’t take a genius to guess which elements will likely be removed.
Fans quickly bid farewell to the most controversial feature of the game – the “sex cards.” Just a day after the project was announced, fans were saying goodbye to the bizarre reference to romantic options that impacted subsequent games. This involved collecting illustrations depicting many of Geralt’s partners in various degrees of undress. Even the creator of this system expressed regret.
However, romance options won’t be the only thing omitted in the remake. Confirmation that the remake will be open world will likely remove the well-known bog section in the second chapter – the excellent narration spoiled by the need to navigate through extensive, but mostly empty marsh areas using cutscenes. It can also be speculated that combat will undergo a complete overhaul – the time-based combat system will be replaced with something similar to the combat in The Witcher 3. Despite the promise of “removing the bad parts,” Rebel Wolves intends to “reorganize the good parts to create something satisfying and yet faithful to the original.”
The release of The Witcher remake is still far off, but we know it will come after The Witcher 4. CD Projekt Red and Rebel Wolves will be utilizing the “same foundational technology” for both the beginning of the new Witcher saga and the remake. However, that hasn’t stopped one fan from creating their own vision of what the Witcher remake could look like. Here is a reminder of the upcoming games from CD Projekt Red.
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The source of the article is from the blog revistatenerife.com