A discussion on The Witcher , race and Poland

Should we critique kurosawa's movies for being centred on japanese culture and only having japanese people?

fairly certain most of his movies weren't loaded with fantasy elements, and also he made a lot of those movies like sixty years ago.

and, again, the only people saying the game is About Poles are people defending it's pure whiteness, while nothing academically or official that I've found has stated the book or game series is set in poland or based on polish mythology and folklore. if a kurosawa movie is explicitly set in japan, based solely on japanese mythology and folklore, and has a cast of only japanese actors while made in the 50's, I'm not really going to run to kurosawa's grave and tell him he needs more germans.

but if a zombie kurosawa had a movie made in the 2010's set in a fantasy world featuring flying rocks with ultimate power and sentience while lacking any non-japanese people, yeah, I'd probably criticize the movie.

also, they obviously took some liberties with the story to make the game:

After seemingly being killed by a mob during a slaughter of non-humans at the end of the Witcher saga, Geralt's story continues in more recent computer games (The Witcher, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt). Geralt returns to life with no recollection of the details of his sudden reappearance. He is rescued by the last remaining witchers in the world and taken back to Kaer Morhen. It is hinted that in the game, he will reluctantly uncover a conspiracy concerning the Witchers. Note that the story of the game series is considered to be non-canon by Andrzej Sapkowski.[1]

so a non-canon game could take the liberty of bringing a dead person back to life and crafting a whole new experience for them, but can't handle the liberty of some differing tones of skin or cultural inspiration?

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