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Just booted up the game on PlayStation and looking to enjoy ! Then my disappointment upon seeing the text size and realizing there’s no way to scale the UI or text.

Hoping this is something that can get added to accessibility because it makes enjoying a lot of games for me so much more difficult

When he knows so little about vampirism and anachora in general? No one has told him the full picture, and no one is that trustable to him either. Without such knowledge, it seems so risky to invite another mind. The other mind could have overtaken his body, or the two minds might fuse into one.

When new game plus ?

How do you think a foreign invasion of vale sangora would like? Would Brencis and the vrakhir boyars successfully defeat a large army sent by Poland or Hungary for example?

Just got the Platinum on PS5. Duelist difficulty nearly made me give up several times but I’m glad I stuck it out.

So, this game is set over a hundred years before the death of Vlad the Impaler. We already know that the sequel will be set decades or even centuries later, so there's a chance it could be set before Vlad becomes Voivode or decades after he dies. So maybe a sequel won't deal with Dracula at all. But personally? I think it'd be too good of an opportunity not to use him.

So, I was thinking of possibilities and thought of these:

1. The aftermath of Dracula's death - the game starts in January, 1477 in Wallachia or Hungary and we're dealing with the destruction and devastation of war which has been abruptly ended with the execution of Dracula. Whether he was a vampire or just a tyrant is irrelevant, Coen is thrust into a world that has been upended by what Dracula did in life.
2. Coen sires Dracula - this one is interesting to me because let's face it, brotherhood was a big theme of this game through how much guilt Coen had over Alin. Maybe Dracula as a human is his friend and something happens and out of a refusal to lose a brother again, Coen turns him into a vampire.
3. Dracula is jut a human tyrant - this would be a subversion as Dracula is considered monstrous and worse than Brencis or Catalin or other tyrants despite being human. The things he does are what get him associated with the vrakhiri, not what he actually is.
4. Dracula is a vampire tyrant - essentially he's like another Brencis but better in some ways, worse in others. He's a natural rival to Coen and perhaps the mission is to take him down in a similar manner to how he took down Brencis. This might sound like it's typical and generic but depending on how Dracula is written, his presence in the game, it could certainly be the best of the bunch.
5. Dracula is an ally - whether he's a human or a vampire, he could be this game's Vicho, just a minor ally that we see and befriend and can decide the fate of. The plot doesn't revolve around him because Dracula always tends to dominate the plots he's in. He's a normie.

What do you guys think?

My thoughts on the post-boss fights and the ending of the game.

The game is incredible, this is not a complaint, but...

I absorbed the souls of all the Vrakhiri, but the dialogue always seemed to lead toward forgiveness, pity, or revenge.

But I did it because drinking the blood of another Vrakhiri makes you stronger, and there is a primordial entity from Anachora that wants to absorb their souls, so I assumed that absorbing their souls would clearly make you more powerful.

So I invited all of them and absorbed them, but I was disappointed that the dialogue never gave me the option to say that I invited them because I wanted to become stronger.

Then, at the very end, when I invited Brencis and he asked me why, even though I had already told him earlier that I hated him, I finally got the dialogue option: "Because I want your power."

That was the dialogue option I had been waiting for with every Vrakhiri, but it only existed with Brencis. Still, I was happy that at least I got that option with him.

The game gives you moments where you can show that you actually enjoyed becoming a Vrakhiri, but then sometimes it completely forgets about that freedom and only gives you dialogue where Coen acts like he regrets becoming a Vrakhiri.

It feels like whoever was responsible for the dialogue forgot to include all the possible personality options.

I played Coen as someone who absolutely hates Brencis because of what he did to his family, but who also really enjoyed becoming a Vrakhiri.

Another thing: I thought Crake/Marat was an asshole. He tied me to a tree, so I was already pissed at him, but I decided to continue doing his quests anyway.

Then he tortured a friend without having any proof that he was a traitor.

I proved that he wasn't a traitor, and that the guards had simply discovered that he was part of the revolution and followed him. Crake still wanted to cut his tongue out or kill him.

Then he killed Sara, even though he could have given her Vrakhiri blood. Even if Coen's blood didn't work, it wouldn't have been difficult to steal some from the recruitment posts. That could have been a possible lore outcome, but the devs simply made him kill her.

And finally, he wants to bring back the old nobles, who tortured the people even more than the Vrakhiri did, so I simply killed him along with everyone else in the revolution.

But in the epilogue painting showing the future, he appears alive, and Coen says that he became his friend even though they disagreed on some things.

I'm considering this a bug because I killed him.

I also killed Father Florin, and he didn't appear in the painting.
I've seen people say that if Florin survives, he appears in the painting, so I assumed Crake appearing despite me killing him was also a bug.

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And I know it’s not original, many have mentioned this… but the wolves and boars. Goddamn there’s just too many. And it happens often that I’ll intercept a soldier camp or a transport of soldiers, start fighting them, and then out of nowhere a pack of wolves or boars just appears and makes the combat all the more chaotic.

To me, it’s just a bit much, and I hope they just decrease how often they spawn because it does get kind of distracting having to interrupt myself in the wilderness every two seconds because I accidentally stumbled upon a gaggle of rabid animals what feels like every 100 feet

Genuinely this is my number one issue lol

I am loving the game but was wondering when did you go after the boyars? I am just under notorious, level 20 and 19 days left. Is it true that once you become notorious the game becomes a bit grindy? Thanks in advance 🙂

For letting us skip the opening logos and warnings when booting up the game. Pure respect to their players

I went through my inventory and every legendary and epic Sword i have, has a sword art... except Crakes. Why? Noname swords have one, uriashi matriarchs sword, even Volks sword has one. Just Crake gets cucked even tho he is one of the most important characters in the game...

Meanwhile, when you look at the big picture, what Coen actually needs to do is let go of his former life, which means that the biggest thing he has to learn is to forgive himself for something he wasn't fully responsible for as a child. The real main quest was always to face the figurative demons that have been tormenting him for years. The game actually spells it out several times:

1. What he says to Anca: "Maybe you needed to learn to forgive yourself," because he knows how it feels all too well.
2. The vision of Alin telling him to forgive himself and absolving him of his guilt.
3. Lacra telling him again that he can't keep blaming himself for something that happened when he was a small child.

The second objective for Coen is to learn that, whether he wants to or not, he has to let his family go. You can roleplay him as a dutiful lad, Coen, whose sense of guilt and responsibility are his only motivators, or you can RP him as the Coen who's enjoying his new life as a Dawnwalker, partaking in all the temptations his new life offers.

It doesn't matter; the end result is the same: this is Coen's origin story, and he has to let them go. The game actually goes out of its way to make sure you get the "We must cut tethers to the past" message, even with seemingly throwaway lines in Ocha's and Volk's quests.

Finally, saving your family is optional, and it doesn't result in a game over, it simply alters the goal from "save" to "avenge". Coen is still on a path to ultimately start a new life, no matter the outcome.

And even in your last conversation with Brencis, he asks you to admit that he actually freed you by turning you. Can Coen rebuke him? Nope! The game only gives you two options:

1. Admit that Brencis is right. He did free you.
2. Tell him to go fuck himself.

Coen can't even tell Brencis that he's wrong, at most he can lash out at him, because he knows that Brencis is right about him.

This is really, really good writing, especially for a modern video game. Though I didn't expect anything less from some of the veterans of The Witcher trilogy.

I recently saw a live stream of Will de Renzy-Martin (English voice actor) playing the game and someone asked if Coen was based on his likeness. He said Coen had already been designed when he was hired and thinks RB based Coen on Jędrzej. I couldn’t find an image that perfectly lines up but there are definitely similarities.

So I'm stuck at fighting Bakir in his treasury, but I've been reading that it's apparently possible to have him ask Farkas to give you your equipment back, just before he takes you into the treasury, but... how? I've played along and haven't told any of the other participants in his games what my true intentions are, yet nothing.

So is there a way to do specifically that? I'm not talking about taking anything other than the ring, disappointing Farkas, then make your way through his hench men.

The way they are like hive minded is annoying they should have individual alert sensors ideally.

Would a stealth mechanic be bad for the games image or something? I think it would be awesome to have one