The year 2015 was one of the most prominent years for this generation in terms of the games industry for no reason other than the release of The Witcher 3 Wild hunt, which is the game that managed to achieve almost the full mark and enjoyed a very wide spread that enabled it to win the best game award during 2015 and many believe that this game is the best During the last 10 years.
The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt is characterized by its very huge gameplay content as the game requires you to approximately 200 hours of play in order to complete the main tasks and additions, and this matter we do not find much like it in the current period when we find a game of up to 50 hours of play we say it is a big game and we have become Now we also find games that contain a story mode of only 15 or 10 hours of play!
Of course, in order for Cd Projekt Red to develop a game that contains all this huge number of hours, it is necessary to rely on a deep story with many characters, details, and successive and branching events, which is what actually happened with The Witcher game.
The history of the series and its beginning
The game is based on a series of very famous novels in Poland with the same name, written by Andrzej Sapkowski, the first part of which was released in 1993, and the parts followed after that until it reached 8 parts by 2013.
This novel is very popular in Poland and the writer is also very famous, which led to the filming of the series of the same name in Poland, but it did not get any success and was a faded, cheap version of the novel.
When CD Projekt considered buying the novel from Andrzej Sapkowski to use in developing a series of games, it offered the writer a percentage of the profits, but the writer refused this and requested that he receive a certain amount in exchange for selling the rights to the novel once and for all, and it is clear that the writer believed that the games would not It succeeds like it did with the series for the novel, but of course that did not happen and I think he might be a little sorry for this decision now.
Indeed, the first part of the game was released in 2007 entitled The Witcher, and the game was able to achieve success at the cash level, but it did not achieve great popularity, as the game was good, but not excellent or legendary.
In any case, the first part was able to achieve the success that motivates the team to develop the second part, which has already happened, as the second part of the game entitled The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings was released in 2011 and this part was able to achieve a good spread and was the beginning of acquaintance with the players as It won a lot of critical acclaim but remained a good one among many other good titles.
This situation and determining the level of the series continued until 2015 came and the Witcher 3 Wild Hunt was released to turn the scales upside down, as this game shook the entire gaming industry, as it had all the elements that make it perfect by the rules of this time.
The graphics are excellent and have a very high amount of detail and variety, the map is very wide and the game contains hours and hours of play in a completely normal and classic story mode in contrast to the prevailing wave of multiplayer and online modes, in addition to all of the aforementioned the game had a wonderful story that really deserves Narration and explanation.
Who are the Witchers?
Before starting to talk about the story, we must first know who the Witchers are in the first place, and simply they are a clan of charlatans and magicians who possess supernatural fighting abilities and use these abilities to take complex and difficult tasks to gain money or achieve fame and influence.
Within this clan there are several schools and each school has a special character and style of life, such as the school of cats, snakes and wolves, as for the hero of our story, he is called Garalt of Rivia and he belongs to the school of wolves.
The most important characters in the story
Most of the time when I explain a game story, never directly in the events and talk about the beginning, middle and end, but in this particular game the matter is very different for more than one reason.
The first reason is the number of characters in this game, as the game contains about 522 characters that you can talk and interact with, and of course I will not be able to talk about all of these characters within the game and I will only talk about the most prominent or most important characters.
The second reason is the way the game deals with these characters and with the story because the game gives you great freedom in interacting with these characters. You may avoid talking with many of them at all and you can finish the game without being exposed to them or you may actually talk to them, but you choose to avoid them in the future and their role in the story.
The matter does not stop at this event, as the choices you make towards each character you interact with affect their importance and appearance after that, for example there is a character called Keira Metz, who is a powerful witch inside the game and this character interacts with her in the first quarter of the game and you have the choice either to kill or leave her Of course, if you kill her, her role ends completely inside the game, but if you leave her, she appears again at the end and has a role in the events.
Therefore, it should be satisfied only with listing the main characters that are indispensable to moving the events in the game, as well as when we will explain the story, we will suffice with the general lines without addressing the events that are subject to change according to the style of each player.
The character Garalt of Rivia
The main protagonist of the game is a legend of the Witchers in the thirteenth century, and he belongs to the school of wolves, despite his name from the city of Rivia, but he does not descend from it nor was raised there, as his mother left him in the castle of the Witchers known as Kaer Morhen and there he trained and learned by his teacher Vesemir who regards him as his godfather.
Garalt had a relationship with a witch named Yennefer of Vengerberg, who is considered the love of his life, but the relationship between them is experiencing many tensions, and he raised a girl named Ciri as his daughter completely, who is the most important character in the third part and the events revolve around her.
Ciri character
Ciri is the most important character within the third installment because all events revolve around her, Ciri is the actual daughter of King Emhyr var Emreis but was raised by Garalt and Yennefer of Vengerberg.
Ciri has supernatural abilities and very strong thanks to her very pure blood, which made her coveted for many villains, but she always managed to survive thanks to the patronage of Garalt and Yennefer of Vengerberg, as she rejects royal restrictions imposed on her and wants to go and live freely.
Character Emhyr var Emreis
This character possesses a lot of influence, intelligence, strength and determination and is the king of the kingdom of Cirilla as he is the legitimate father of Ciri and has a relationship with Garalt as he uses the latter in many special missions.
Vesemir character
The oldest and most experienced juggler is in Kaer Morhen's fortress and is the godfather of all Witchers, especially towards Garalt, and he belongs to the school of wolves.
The character of Yennefer of Vengerberg
A very powerful witch, born in 1173 within the walls of Vengerberg, the capital of the Kingdom of Aedirn, had a passionate relationship with Garalt, as she was considered the spiritual mother of Ciri and always did her utmost effort to preserve and defend her.
Main story events
The events of the game begin with a dream by Garalt that summarizes many of the things that have already happened, where a frost wave arose that threatens all the existing kingdoms, and a dark and very powerful army called the Wild Hunt appeared, and this army seeks Ciri to obtain her blood that contains a mighty force.
Garalt wakes up to know that he is accompanied by his friend and mentor Vesemir as they are on their way to search for Yennefer of Vengerberg to help them search for Ciri. Indeed, Garalt finds her and tells him that King Emhyr var Emreis wants to talk to him and after going through some obstacles he can go to him and tell him that he is ready to pay any money and help him With whatever he wants to bring back his daughter and already Garalt sets out on this mission to get his spiritual daughter Ciri back.
Events take him to a soldier serving a king who tells him that he has some information, but he first wants to search for the king's wife and daughter, and indeed our hero sets out to search for them and actually finds the wife and knows that the king was treating them in a bad way that made them flee as he finds the woman under the influence of three strange-looking mutants, so Garalt fought them and knew Including them is that Ciri drove off with Elif who is Avallac'h.
After a series of successive events, Garalt is able to learn about the past by Yennefer of Vengerberg and realizes that Ciri has used her mighty power to eliminate a group of the Wild Hunter army near a village and all evidence indicates that she is accompanied by this Elf, which is the key to finding Ciri.
Indeed, Garalt finds the Elf but in the form of a terrible child and Yennefer of Vengerberg is the one who discovered this and by using her magical power she was able to return Avallac’h to his true form to give them a magical power that tells them where Ciri is.
Indeed, Garalt runs to this place to find Ciri dead and mourn her very much, but the miraculous ability of the Elf somehow brings her back to life again.
The last war
Garalet returns to the Kaer Morhen fortress again with Ciri to find that the Wild Hunt army decided to attack the castle, but fortunately there were many allies inside and already a large battle is going on in which Vesemir is killed, and after this battle Garalt decides to take revenge and mobilize a large army to attack the Wild Hunt and here You find that the allies differ according to your style of play and your dealings in the story. Each player finds a group of characters next to him that is different from the other player according to the choices made by each player.
In any case, a very big battle begins, and Ciri controls its power and attacks the enemies, and the Witcher manages to defeat the Wild Hunt army, but Garalt knows that there is a time slot opened by the Wild Hunt with the help of Avallac'h, but Ciri tells him that she knew about it and she asked this order to get rid of From deadly frost that threatens kingdoms.
Ciri goes and decides to close the rift by her power and here Garalt must choose either to let her go or to refuse, and if he agrees to go she can actually close the rift and come back again to become the Witcher next to Garalt who in turn goes to her father and tells him that she is dead so that Ciri can live freely like What she wanted all the time.
Well, these were the broad and important outlines of the story of The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, and of course the game contains more and more branches. As we mentioned, the playing time reaches 200 hours, but I preferred to mention the outlines only in order to leave each player the opportunity to make his own story.