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@DillaryHuff

3 ай бұрын

To this day, The Witcher 3 still stands out among all other games in terms of the quality of it's side quests. Some of the side quests/hunts in the game are so immersive, well-written and oozing of care and attention, that I'd argue the game wouldn't be anywhere near as good without them. They're in a class of their own, and I'm still waiting to play a game that gets even remotely close to it's quality. I'd argue that some of the hunts in the game are better than a lot of actual games. I can't praise them enough.

Fun thing about the lullaby you missed is that if you listen to the lyrics they are made in a way that the witcher is the monster that you warn your children about Wolves asleep amidst the trees Bats all aswayin' in the breeze But one soul lies anxious wide awake Fearing all manner of ghouls, hags and wraiths Birds are silent for the night Cows turned in as daylight dies But one soul lies anxious wide awake For the Witcher, brave and bold Paid in coin of gold He’ll chop and slice you Cut and dice you Eat. You. Up. Whole. Eat. You. Whole.

@sothanatoasted2972

4 ай бұрын

I always like to think that the monsters have this as their way of saying everything has a monster they fear, even the monsters

@Scott.webb64

4 ай бұрын

@@sothanatoasted2972 Pretty much, its a luliby for monsters to tell their young (liked we were told to beware of monsters), that there are things even monsters fear. Really shows how brutal and needed Witchers are.

@jeffbernard7522

4 ай бұрын

Came here just to say this. It's my favorite part of the trailer.

@orestmakar8562

4 ай бұрын

It shows the moral ambiguoty of the situation. The „monster/vampire” needs to feed on blood to survive and the Whichers take money to kill monstsrd that are a problem for humans. The vampire knows the Whicher will come she anticipated it. She tries to scare himans when she seas it doesn’t worl she tries to seduce him but it doesn’t change his mind. The vampire moves quickly into the barn where it will have better chances to defeat the Whicher. After the bite the vampire knows it has bean poisoned it tries to atack the Whicher and gets her arm chipowe of understanding she lost all her powers she tries desperatelly to escape and the Whicher kills her. As she lies dying a tear drives from her eye as she turned human. Geralt does not feel good about killing the monster. As the Sun sets it burns the corpse of the beautiful girl to reaveal she was a vampire and probably drank himan blood to survive. The Whicher does not ride into the sunset but into a city that is cold and gray a metaphore to the world both Geralt and the vampire exist.

@info0

3 ай бұрын

@@orestmakar8562 she is not a vampire. She is a bruxa. Witchers don't take contracts on vampires as they are higher beings. People should play Blood and Wine expansion to know what I mean by that. This lullaby is sung by monsters to their children so they are aware of Witchers. Witcher World is cruel for both monsters and humans. Humans also shun Witchers. The Witcher 3 game shows this perfectly.

Most of the things you see here do exist in the game. The medallion vibrating/detecting magic or magical creature. The potion "Black Blood" DoTs a vampire that bites you and cancels the bite. The Moon Dust bomb prevents creatures' transformation/regeneration so she's revelealed and forced to fight, unable to turn into shade. Bruxas are a formidable opponent in hard difficulties within the game. There are some encounters where music goes silent and you hear crows flying around in the distance above trees, so the game warns you. As you aggro, she usually goes invisible and moves really quick and will try to bite. Without spoiling too much, yes, you encounter this specific Bruxa in the game, amazing character. The encounter is missable if you don't follow clues. Aaaand last but not least, the poem, Lullaby of Woe can be heard or mumbled or read in some parts of the game. The song/poem is usually used to scare children but is also an expression of resentment towards Witchers, or a warning, as they can sometimes be monsters too if provoked. Wolves asleep amidst the trees Bats all swaying in the breeze But one soul lies anxious, wide awake Fearing all manner of ghouls, hags and wraiths For your dolly polly sleep has flown Don't dare let her tremble alone For the Witcher Heartless cold Paid in coin of gold He comes, he'll go, leave naught behind But heartache and woe Deep, deep woe Birds are silent for the night Cows turned in as daylight dies But one soul lies anxious wide awake Fearing all manner of ghouls, hags and wraiths My dear dolly polly shut your eyes Lie still, lie silent utter no cries As the Witcher Brave and bold Paid in coin of gold He'll chop and slice you Gut and dice you Eat you up whole Eat you whole

@christophermzdenek

4 ай бұрын

Also, in the finale, showing her manipulation to the very end, she assumes her human form, so he can't take her head and collect on her bounty. Such, a creepy, spectacular character.

@ZonaiHero-ul5nm

2 ай бұрын

@@christophermzdenekHey if I were a monster on the brink of death the least I would do is to make sure my killer can’t benefit from it.

Always loved that trailer where the places of Hunter and Monster are switched constantly. As you've said, she's a monster who've been alive for centuries and therefore doesn't fear him, on the other hand he's a professional monster killer who've been trained to kill things like her if necessary and only sees that confrontation as part of his job before moving to the next contract. You only know who's gonna come on top if you're already aware he's the main character of the story. That's some high level visual storytelling we got there. What's crazy is the fact they've actually retroactively integrated that trailer in the game's canon years later, with the DLC called Blood and Wine in which you met that woman posing as a noblewoman of the city until you discovered she was feeding on orphans and basically told her to get the f- out because you didn't have time to deal with her at the time. That basically recontextualized the scene by making it happen years after the actual end of the game.

That's what I love about this trailer and The Witcher series in general, Geralt might be considered "super" compared to the average human, but this trailer makes it clear that's not the end all, be all, he won this fight, but it wasn't a clean win, and ultimately had to sacrifice his body to get it, he wasn't just untouchable and laying the smack down on this thing and avoiding all the damage it was dealing.

@Garnichgutt

4 ай бұрын

Yup as Phillip said, he won due to her mistake and her arrogance. Its a theme that repeats countless times in the witcherbooks, be it Sorel Degerlund, Regis, Vilgefortz and also in a way Geralt himself all die due to similair acts of "overestimating their ability to control a sitiuation".

both the potion (Black Blood) and the bomb (don't recall the name) are in the game and work exactly the same on Vampires. ** SPOILER ALERT ** the female character is part of the Blood and Wine expansion as a morally complicated NPC who protects and takes care of a bunch of children in her Orphanage... only to use them as wine cellar. "You see witcher? the world's not black and white, it's shades of all kinds. I drank from the children, true, but never so much as to kill. And I gave them a great deal in return". God i love this game.

@caffeinedelusions

4 ай бұрын

The bomb’s called a Moon Dust bomb. It’s made with silver filings that tend to cling to invisible or incorporeal enemies and ground them, making it possible to track their locations and prevent them from phasing out. It’s good against Bruxae like this one (a kind of middle-tier vampire that fills the classic ‘lady seductress’ archetype), but also against wraiths.

@ladyvexx7034

4 ай бұрын

Orianna is a higher vampire, not a bruxa. So, that can't be her in this trailer.

@voodoo728

4 ай бұрын

@@ladyvexx7034 she's her, they just changed her nature for cinematic purposes.

@christophermzdenek

4 ай бұрын

A smal add, Witchers have great low light vision, but for his eyes to glow, he also took Cat's Eye. Between the two, he might have been in toxic overload (an actual thing in game for those of you that haven't played), which means he wasn't at his best for fighting. A tacticall decision as he knew how dangerous his prey really was.

Also I love how they put much thought into both of their abilities. Her getting rid of her clothing is her getting ready for combat as she sheds her human form like the cloth. But also so she can use her invisibility. If you ask how would such a power work you are left with either everything she touches will also turn invisible, or only her body, so she needs to be naked to use this power. The powder was also very nicely done and showed how he came prepared to counter her powers. Something else they showed us, was he couldn't really hurt her. She just would block his blade with her hands. But when she drank his poisoned blood, he could wound her. I think they did a great job in showing many things, without getting a whole monologue of what he is going to do.

Geralt didn't "let" her bite him - but as experienced professional he drank the potion as precaution for fight going south - he knew he's gonna fight powerful vampire (probably knew it'll be bruxa or around this level). If he'd be able to, he wouldn't let her bite him, since it's lose-lose strat - he is weakened by this, not to mention beat up he received to make it possible.

Geralt is such a cool character. He is obviously physically strong can be very brutal at times. But what I like about him most is that he is ultimately a thinker and philosopher with a good heart, which throws both kings and monsters off a lot of the time.

Not that it matters, just wanted to clarify something. Pyrrhus was from Epirus, a second cousin to Alexander the Great. He campaigned against Rome.

One thing to remember is these two know each other. The vampire is a character that appears in the last DLC, Blood and Wine. They work together to destroy the main villain but Gerald catches her feeding on children and promises her that he will come back for her. This is Gerald fulfilling that promise.

@alittlecreepywhenyou

Ай бұрын

It's *Geralt. With a fucking T. C'mon man! Thats just sloppy.

Great review, one of the things you missed (probably due to not playing the game much) is when you bring up how it zooms in on the necklace it’s not because it’s trying to tell the viewer he’s from a special organization, instead notice that the necklace is vibrating/shaking as he walks in the barn, the necklace vibrates like that to warn a Witcher that evil is nearby. So if a Witcher is walking through what he perceives to be a safe location and all of a sudden the necklace starts vibrating, he knows a monster is nearby.

@DofDGlory

2 ай бұрын

not evil magic it tells that magic is nearby

This cinematic trailer is pretty much the ending of the complete edition of the Witcher 3!

5:48 quite the opposite, she was waiting for him. Nearly at end of Blood and Wine storyline, Geralt backs from fighting her after learning her true nature, but makes it clear he will hunt her down eventually. Trailer seem to take place months after events of expansion. From her perspective, it was long waited execution.

The MoCap artists of both the Witch and Geralt are first rate actors: Geralt stutters and looks tired of life as is the Witch. zhe music, the voice acting, the photography...10/10. The whole dramaturgy of this tells a story Hollywood forgot in the last 10 years or so....

The wolf amulet shakes in presence of monsters and magic. It was shaking for us too see. My biggest impression watching this video was a 1 second scene of quen shield used. She threw a wagon his direction. Instead of dodging he shields himself and the wagon breaks on the shield. Interesting you have not notice it...

@FlaskTheTapir

4 ай бұрын

What gave you the impression he didn't notice? Just because he didn't point out an obvious thing doesn't mean he didn't notice.

@pl-hq5hr

4 ай бұрын

@@FlaskTheTapir yes, he did not point out. Sorry for not being perfectly accurate, I live in Poland and English is my third language.

Geralt knew he couldn't beat it one on one, needed the potion for when she bit him so cool

In this universe the people sing lullabys about the "The Witcher" coming for the monsters.

Great analysis of the cinematic, it really is a fantastic watch both with and without context of the world of the Witcher.

It's so interesting that this is one of the first trailers to come out but depict the events of a DLC that came long and last after the game's release, happening in an entire new region. Truly reveals the masterful stroke in which it was made.

One thing you might miss, significant or not, is a single tear that she has when she's back in human form on the ground around the time as he drops near her.

Love your videos man!!! Great job!

Love your attention to detail! One more thing about the necklace shot: Witcher's medallion reacts to magic so it shaking so much tells us that she is very near and probably very powerful.

You just popped on my feed for witcher reactions!! Awesome! Subbed

She was a bruxa, one of the various vampire species

So this was a release trailer, but it actually turned out to be a teaser for the second dlc a LONG time before reveal because this mission was actually a slight variation of a mission in "blood and wine"

There is a reason she is so overconfident when she is fighting Geralt. She is a Bruxa a type of higher vampire very dangerous and difficult to kill. She's most likely killed a witcher before. Even for an experienced witcher hunting a Bruxa is practically a suicide mission.

@zach9036

3 ай бұрын

Bruxa are a pain to fight in game. They are fast, brutal, and have lots of tricks up their sleeves. I played on the hardest difficulty (because I hate myself), the Bruxa fights were sometimes harder than main story bosses.

I love your reviews, though I would prefer 2 views- the first silent so you don't miss stuff, and the second to really dig in deep as it plays. This has always been one of my favorite game cinematics. =)

A great thing about this trailer is that players can actually use all the same things Geralt uses, not losing even the visual effects (giving the difference between a cinematic and gameplay ofc). I don't know all English names but you have a potion that turns your blood into kinda poison (black blood), you fight a creature like that (she's a lower vampire), you use that bomb with silver fillings to show invisible enemies and you use all the magic that Geralt does. This could fully be an actual quest from the game, just looking better. Beside using the crossbow outside of water.

@zach9036

3 ай бұрын

I remember playing the Witcher for the first time and being like "awe sick! A crossbow!" ... just before noticing that it has very little use in combat. Mainly just water and knocking things out of the sky.

@xFurashux

3 ай бұрын

@@zach9036 and they even added skills that you could have to make it better but nobody cares because it's so shit.

Found you trough WoW! Now that you covered my other favorite game, have yourself a follow! :)

Pyrrhus wasn't a Roman general, he was a Greek king of Epirus and fought the Romans during the Pyrrhic War. He was a far better general than pop history would have you believe (and is considered one of the best generals of his time, supposedly even according to Hannibal himself), but a string of extremely costly victories eventually cost him his war against Rome and saw the Greek cities in Southern Italy eventually subjugated by Rome and Sicily by Carthage. Even though the quote is likely fake, its still one of my favorites from ancient history. "If we are victorious in one more battle with the Romans, we shall be utterly ruined"

The medallion detects magic

I just noticed something funny, this cinematic was introduced way before Blood & Wine expansion and at the very beginning you can see Novigrad with it's characteristic tower in the background but at the end, the city turned into Beauclair. I wonder what's the full story behind the whole thing!

You missed the thing with the amulet. It moved much more that Witcher did. It moved because it senses evil.

I remember loving this video and then the Blood and Wine DLC came out and we got to live it

She is a Bruxa a mid-tier vampire kin. Bruxae, Alps, Katakan, Nosferat, and Mulas are types of humanoid vampires. Powerful, shapeshifting, and intelligent. This particular Bruxa does appear in the Witcher 3 game. There are weaker lesser kin and higher vampires even more powerful and then elders that are near godlike. Lesser vampires while cunning are not able to blend into society since they have more batlike forms and cannot shapeshift. They can use illusions to move around undetected and stalk prey.

Try watching and listening without non stop talking sometimes. its fun

@PhilipHarts

3 ай бұрын

Try making a KZread channel sometime, it’s fun!

@ramazanAb

3 ай бұрын

@@PhilipHarts okay

You could pull off a Geralt/Witcher cosplay at a con You've got the hair and facial hair to do it

Greetings Stranger. Come Closer, take a drink and lets play some Gwent while we enjoy the video

please do a playthrough of this game

hey ,,am u should play it so mutch witcher dialogs that makes the game go in one direction or another u have to choose whisely the meddelion is from the school of wolf and it hums and shakes wheres dangerous or magic is!

its Greek general :D

Nice vid as always, I hope you check out the Cyberpunk 2077 trailers at some point

Please react to this: kzread.info/dash/bejne/lWSdmpqtYK7Hk9Y.html This is cinematic trailer to The Witcher 3 Wild hunt and i wanna know your opinion about edit, music and other stafs In my opinion its perfectly done and i love it watching this over and over again

I love the analysis, but it's not really a reaction when you talk over most of it on the first run lol (Just pointing out a detail people looking for a "reaction" may be annoyed at)

@IGarrettI

4 ай бұрын

yeah it's quite obvious he's seen it before

@ostvel

4 ай бұрын

Watching quite a few of the reactions they've posted, it's pretty obvious they've seen the videos before. I wonder if it's worth changing the description of their videos away from the term "Reaction". If not, perhaps a genuine (near silent) first watch of the video with us, and then a more narrated, as they've done here, breakdown of the video might be more authentic.

@IGarrettI

4 ай бұрын

@@ostvel yeah..especially as a gamer there's no way he hasn't seen some of these cinematics lol

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