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#4 — The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a story about love. Love for your child, love for your partner, love for your parental figures, love for your home, and love for your soulmate. Throughout the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Geralt expresses and navigates through all of these emotions. It is highly likely that The Witcher 3 will find its way onto many people’s games of the generation lists, and for good reason too.
Be it the haunting and beautifully bleak open world, the expansive and interesting side quests, filled with as much emotion and as many stakes as the main campaign, or the RPG mechanics, which offers enough variety to allow for you to truly make Geralt your own, while still being recognisably Geralt. CD Projekt Red crafted a great video game, and a great experience on the whole. But you know all this. In fact, you’ve probably played The Witcher 3 for over a hundred hours or so, as I did. There would be no point in me trying to tell you why The Witcher 3 is a great game. So instead, I will tell you about the quest that really solidified The Witcher 3 for me as being a truly unforgettable experience.
The Last Wish is a quest that shares its name with the first Witcher book, and in many ways, defines Geralt’s character perfectly for me. To those who have not played the game, I will be spoiling The Last Wish quest – and while it does not affect the main campaign in any visibly significant way, it is definitely one of the game’s most defining moments in my opinion.
The Last Wish, which sees Geralt and Yennefer journey to break the spell that has kept them together in order to see whether their love is real or not, is a sad and scary quest. The mission itself gameplay-wise is nothing spectacular. In fact, for most of it, it's long and monotonous, with the quest mostly involving Geralt and Yennefer rowing a boat looking for the Djinn which bound them together.
Throughout this though, there is an air of unease. Geralt and Yennefer may be dooming their relationship. For years, decades even, these two have been bound together by what seemed to be love. Whether it was genuine or not, neither could be sure of this fact. And so, Geralt and Yennefer have decided to break the spell one way or another – finding out the truth.
In many ways, this mission mirrored the final moments of a relationship and the uncertainty that comes with it. Will everything work out, or will this person, who you’ve known for so long and have bonded with, eventually become a stranger to you? Though neither wants this to happen, the truth needs to be found, regardless of the consequences. And this is what makes The Last Wish so impactful.
As I mentioned, the quest is slow, and mostly filled with Geralt and Yennefer steadily making their way to the final destination as the musical track ‘The Fields of Ard Skellig’ helps you to understand the weight and fear on both of these lovers’ hearts knowing it may be over soon. It's scary, and uncertain, but it’s right – and that is what The Witcher 3 is all about.
The mission ends with Geralt and Yennefer breaking the spell. Despite this, there is no revelatory moment between the two characters. The spell is broken, and neither Geralt nor Yennefer know how they feel. They did the right thing. This decision they made was the correct one. But what does it mean for both Geralt and Yennefer? Neither of them know.
The Witcher 3 is about doing the right thing, while you yourself understanding that you don’t have the answers. This permeates throughout every quest. Geralt’s love for Yennefer, Ciri, Vesemir, Dandelion, Kaer Morhen, the continent, and humanity as a whole, is what drives his decisions every step of the way. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a human story, and Geralt is more human than most.
