| The "Women of Witcher" are the conquests Geralt can do in the game if the player chooses to do so.
As you can see from some of the other discussions in this forum, the game is has sexual atmosphere stemming from the background story for the game. Women want to sleep with Geralt, and he wants to sleep with women.
It isn't something complex like why women are portrayed only good for sex or anything like that (and one could argue that the women in Witcher uses Geralt as much as he uses them).
However, these are simply "cards" you can "collect" in a game which has sexual undertones amongst other things. Sure there is a discussion in regards of this topic, and it is one that's not new or singular to The Witcher, but more society in general (magazine, movies, games etc). But in this situation regarding The Witcher - it is in my opinion overinterpretating the game by assigning irrelevant attributes to it.
That aside, I still hold The Witcher as one of the best RPGs released in years, because of the story and the game play it provides, but the game isn't for every one, especially if one can't abstract from, or tolerate such issues as, sexual content. That's one reason the game is rated 18+.
The game is not realistic in any manner to begin with (a mutated monster hunter in a fictive game world), so expecting realism in select (and in real life, immensely complex) situations is pointless and a tad naive in my book.
(These was also the first time I've seen the US versions of the images though, and yeah - they're censured somewhat indeed from the European release that I play(ed). ) |