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The first teaser trailer for The Witcher 4 confirmed what followers had lengthy suspected by depicting Ciri as the sport’s new lead character. By the primary three video games, voice actor Doug Cockle portrayed the earlier primary character, Geralt of Rivia, and he’ll reprise his position within the sequel as properly. However Cockle is way from dissatisfied about taking a backseat this time, and he is desirous to see Ciri get the highlight.
“I am actually excited,” Cockle advised IGN. “I feel it is a actually good transfer. I imply, I all the time thought that persevering with the saga, however shifting to Ciri can be a extremely, actually attention-grabbing transfer for every kind of causes, however principally due to issues that occur within the books, which I do not wish to give away as a result of… I need folks to go learn. So yeah, I feel it is actually thrilling. I am unable to wait. I am unable to wait to see what they’ve accomplished.”
Cockle additionally associated that CD Projekt Crimson gently admonished him for sharing his theories about Geralt’s presence within the sport.
“I used to be by no means actually out of their good books,” mentioned Cockle. “All builders are like this. They wish to hold their surprises and I really did not know something, so I used to be simply making guesses at issues and stuff like that. And doubtless one among their requests was to simply to cease guessing, ‘Doug, you is likely to be proper. You won’t be proper. It would not matter in case you are speaking me. Doug, who performs Geralt, no matter you say goes to be taken as one thing.’ So it was a really, very gentle slap on the wrist. It wasn’t actually a giant deal.”
Cockle is reprising his position as Geralt in Netflix’s upcoming animated movie, The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep. That may premiere on Netflix on February 11, whereas The Witcher Season 4 is predicted to reach later this yr. As for The Witcher 4, CD Projekt Crimson ramped up manufacturing on the finish of 2024, and the sport would not presently have a launch date.