Witcher 3 - The Women of...

At Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Richard Corbett considers the role of women in The Wild Hunt, which he finds has deepened quite a bit since the "porny little cards" of the first game.

One of the best things about The Witcher III is that it shows how far CD Projekt has come in just a few short years. We see it in world and quest design, in writing, in graphical technology and in scale, and all those speak for themselves. One of the biggest surprises though is how far it’s climbed in terms of female representation over the years – from one of the industry’s biggest targets to a high watermark others would be well advised to treat as the new baseline. 

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The skill with with The Witcher III does all this is all the more impressive for the fact that it sits comfortably next to so much stuff that might otherwise start feeling icky – the constant hookers and strumpets for instance, or at least a couple of villains whose evil is shown using the Tortured Naked Lady School of Exposition.

And if you do still want pretty ladies on cards, hey, at least there’s always Gwent.