The Witcher 4 will ‘respect’ player’s choices from previous games, narrative director says
While it is not known whether 'The Witcher 4' will follow on from one specific ending from 'The Witcher 3:Wild Hunt', the title's narrative director Philipp Weber has said the project will "respect" everything that came before" - including "some of the most important choices the player made".
‘The Witcher 4’ narrative director Philipp Weber has stressed the game will “respect” the choices players made in previous instalments.
The upcoming fantasy-RPG - which is codenamed Polaris and is being helmed by CD Projekt Red - will be set “a few years” after the events of ‘The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’, and while Weber has not revealed whether the game will follow on from a specific ending to the 2015 title, he insisted ‘The Witcher 4’ will honour “everything that came before”, including "some of the most important choices the player made".
In an interview with Eurogamer, the narrative director said: “So we can't say yet how exactly we're going to handle it. This is something that we want to reveal later.
“What I can say is that we really want to respect everything that came before, that being the books by Andrzej Sapkowski and all three ‘Witche’r games, and that of course, should also include some of the most important choices the player made there.
“But exactly how we, you know, reveal how we handle all of these things, this will be part of the story that we tell in Polaris so I think that we have to talk about how we do it a little bit later.”
‘The Witcher 4’ will be the first game in the series to not have Geralt of Rivia as its main protagonist - with Ciri becoming the new face of the franchise - but game director Sebastian Kalemba emphasised the fan-favourite character would still be “present” in the upcoming title.
He teased: “Obviously we can promise that Geralt will appear, but we cannot tell you if it's going to be playable or not right now. But yeah, he will appear. He's going to be present in ‘The Witcher 4’.”
