WARNING: Don't read if you haven't finished the game!
I finished The Witcher some time ago, with mixed feelings. On the one hand, the last chapter and the epilogue were rather uninspiring up to the very end (I personally think ch 2 was the best, 3-4 OK, 5 worse, 1 the worst), BUT, on the other hand, the ending was... should I say, intriguing?
After the final victory over the weird Grand Master (and the bluish Wild Hunt guy, whatever his mysterious deal with Geralt was in the past), I expected to be greeted with blaring fanfares and golden showers in the palace and meet privately with Triss, "the love of my life"
, or at least to hear from her (wouldn't that be reasonable?). It's never happened (well, except a useful bag of coin). Instead, I watched an amazing, extremely well-crafted, totally unexpected final cutscene: there is a clear promise of a sequel/expansion, which I will most certainly buy and play.
What do you think of the Alvin-turned-Jacques de Aldersberg twist? I have to confess that I was so happy when the annoying boy finally teleported away
, I did not even care to look for him afterwards, in spite of my journal suggestion that maybe somebody heard something about his whereabouts. I was just glad to get rid of him - Alvin was driving me nuts. He was following Geralt around at night and screaming "Help me!" while the witcher was fighting tough monsters (and while the monsters were completely ignoring Alvin
). Did I miss anything? Who, except Shani, had anything to say about Alvin in Ch 5?
Anyway, I assume Alvin could time-travel? Does that not mean he existed as little Alvin AND the Grand Master at the same time? Why the Salamanders were trying to catch and kill Alvin??? We learned that GrMr was allied with them, so it does not make any sense. I also did not quite understand what GrMr meant by a "perfect human" (maybe because I tend to fast-click through the dialogues
) able to survive the "climate change" (yep, the lumberjacks did it, after all
). Big Brothers or witchers?
Any ideas?