The Witcher 4 lets snow-haired princess Ciri take the series' protagonist role from her adoptive father Geralt, which some fans are decidedly grumbly about. But, although there are people out there who find it controversial for a beautiful woman to slay moldy, undead monsters, developer CD Projekt Red maintains it's what's best for their story.
"I think there's many very valid worries and responses," narrative director Philipp Weber tells Eurogamer in a recent interview, "because I think a lot of them come out of passion." Weber also emphasizes that CD Projekt Red is "beholden to the lore, the canon of the books by Andrzej Sapkowski, the three previous Witcher games, and we'd want to take that seriously, and we really want to respect that."
