The Witcher 3 Video Game Would Have Solved My Late 20’s Issues

If you’re disappointed in the final season of Game of Thrones, fear not. The next great fantasy TV series might be just around the corner via The Netflix original The Witcher.

Far from a household name, the series has an obsessive following, first as a series of novels drawing heavily from Polish folk lore and later as an impossibly difficult video game series, which drew both passionate and frustrated fans, due to it’s stunning graphics, story(passionate) and incredibly difficult gameplay (frustrated).

Henry Cavill, (aka Superman aka that guy from Mission Impossible) begged for the chance to take up the mantle of Geralt of Rivea, a monster-hunter-for-hire a fantasy world resembling something J.R.R. Tolkein or George R.R. Martin would have dreamed up. The series likely debuts this fall, but we at least know Cavill stuck the iconic character’s look.

I played The Witcher 3 a couple of years back for only a handful of hours. Then I got stuck on a mission I couldn’t beat and eventually yanked the disco out of my XBOX and sold it on Facebook marketplace, assuming I’d never again enter the Witcher universe.

But when I heard Cavill was donning the dual sword uniform of the Witcher (it’s a thing), I picked up the first Witcher book and got sucked back into the world…