Friday, December 23, 2016

Neon Against the Shadow

There are so many reasons to appreciate CD Projekt's wondrous and awe-inspiring The Witcher 3, but there is one worth which has become salient far sooner than I expected: at the very end of the videogame's storyline, the fantasy role-playing narrative mutates, like some unimaginable quantum technology from the future, into a science fiction role-playing epic. It does so simply, yet ingeniously, with a twist as enthralling as it is convincing. You simply cannot imagine the game ending any other way that it does. This is CD Projekt's way of saying "thank you" to its fans: a subtle way of letting us know that fantasy's end is cyberpunk's beginning.

No spoilers, but if haven't already done so, log in to Gog.com and arm yourselves with the source code of the Resistance.

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