Ciri's a full witcher now, and everything else we learned from The Witcher 4 trailer

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The Witcher 4 World Premiere Trailer from The Game Awards 2024 - YouTubeWatch On

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The Witcher 4’s cinematic reveal trailer was an indulgent six-minute-long saga in which Ciri, the new protagonist of the series, went on a sidequest. The whole thing had the vibe of theKilling Monsters trailer for The Witcher 3, or that onequest where the villagers have been offering sacrifices to leshen.

Or maybe the School of the Lynx has their own formula, cooked up in the years between games. When Ciri arrives at the cave where our young lady’s gone to be sacrificed, her witcher medallion vibrates, and it’s a distinctive lynx like the one we saw in anearly tease for The Witcher 4.

Ciri does draw on some water running down the cave wall to empower a chain around her fist, which then electrocutes the monster she’s fighting. It’s a cute callback to the way Geralt used a chain against the striga in the first game’s opening cinematic, but Ciri’s clearly capable of more magic than Geralt was. Perhaps she’ll regain her abilities over the course of the story, like Batman learning his skills again in each Arkham game?

The trailer ends with Ciri defeating the monster, only to discover the villagers have done its work and killed the sacrifice anyway in the name of the gods. It’s a typically downbeat Witcher ending. “There are no gods here,” Ciri says. “Only monsters.”

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And then, though only in theversion of the trailer shown at The Game Awards, we get to hear Geralt. “Time for a new saga,” he says. “See you on the path.” Given theback-and-forth about whether Doug Cockle’s Geralt will be returning in The Witcher 4, this seems like a last-minute addition to make sure we know that Geralt hasn’t been completely cast aside. Maybe he’ll play a mentor role, like Vesemir did in The Witcher 3. Or maybe he’ll just be chilling in his vineyard, playing Gwent.

We’ll have to wait a while to find out, given thatThe Witcher 4 only just went into full production.

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