- Lead story designer Artur Ganszyniec stated that the development team did not know that the Wild Hunt were elves during creation. The Witcher
- He says The Witcher the remake will have to change this detail to match what we learn in The Witcher 3
- The designer also revealed that the game’s ending was not planned by the story team, calling it a “mistake.”
The WitcherLead story designer Artur Ganszyniec has revealed new behind-the-scenes details about the development of the 2007 game ahead of its remake.
Ganszyniec has been playing the role-playing game (RPG) while providing commentary on YouTube, and in the developer’s latest video, he talked about what The Witcher the remake will need to change to align with events taking place in subsequent games (via GamesRadar).
The designer talked about the Wild Hunt, the mythological group of hunters that appeared in the first game, then again in The Witcher 3I. He said the CD Projekt Red team didn’t know they were elves when the first game was being developed.
“In the first The Witcherthe Wild Hunt is more like the Wild Hunt of legends,” Ganszyniec said.
“We didn’t know yet that they were armored elves. We really thought of them as specters, omens of death, and tools of destiny. That part will probably have to be changed a bit in the remake.”
The Wild Hunt is referred to as a “harbinger of war and tragedy” in the game, which fits with their mythological roots as spectral hunters; however, Ganszyniec points out that in The Witcher 3it is revealed that they are elves trying to stop a magical infection known as the White Frost.
“Here, the King of the Hunt is the personification of death,” he remarked, pointing to the scene where Geralt meets the leader of the Hunt, “and that will require some changes in the remake, I think.”
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In the same part, Ganszyniec also revealed that the ending of the game was not something the team had initially planned and believes it was a “mistake”.
At the end of the game, Geralt goes to collect the payment from King Foltest and ends up coming across a mysterious assassin. After a sword fight, it is revealed that the assassin is a witcher.
According to Ganszyniec, this is where the story team wanted the game to end, “like with an open question and an open future.” However, when finishing the game, it was decided to include an animated outing that sets the stage for The Witcher 2.
“As we were finishing the game, someone decided, as the board had decided, or [CD Projekt co-founder Michał Kiciński] “We decided we needed an animated release of the game,” he explained.
“And the script for that… it was created without really involving the writing team. So it was sort of, we weren’t really paying attention to it. And that was a mistake, I think.”
Ganszyniec continues: “It became clear that the next game would have to follow this up and tell a story about witchers who kill kings for whatever reason. And that’s why the second Witcher It’s very political and there’s not really any room to explore who Geralt is, his family, his history, and stuff like that.”
CD Projekt Red has confirmed that The Witcher the remake is in development at Fool’s Theory. The studio is currently entirely busy creating decks. The Witcher 4which will be the first game in a new trilogy of Witcher games he wants to release within six years.
There have also been rumors that CDPR is working on a third expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which would be released this year.
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