The Blood of Dawnwalker is the brand new recreation from The Witcher 3 director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz’s Insurgent Wolves studio, developed by a crew made up of each ex-CD Projekt Purple expertise and different builders. Whereas it has many attention-grabbing new concepts, it does look somewhat just like The Witcher 3 in a number of methods, and so I had one important query to ask once I just lately visited the studio’s HQ in Poland: is there a Yen and Triss state of affairs right here?
Followers of The Witcher 3 will know precisely what I’m speaking about. As protagonist Geralt, your affections are torn between two ladies: Yennefer of Vengerberg, Geralt’s lover in the course of the period of the unique Witcher novels, and Triss Merigold, a sorceress with whom Geralt kinds a relationship with throughout the primary two Witcher video games. As with the perfect RPG romances, your relationship with whomever you select develops over the journey as your bond strengthens.
So, does The Blood of Dawnwalker have romance choices? “There are,” confirms Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz, the venture’s inventive director.
“It’s, of course, as much as the participant in the event that they wish to interact with them or not,” Tomaszkiewicz explains. He stops quick of revealing which of the sport’s characters will likely be potential love pursuits for protagonist Coen, however says that “all of them are customized tailor-made plot traces, so you possibly can anticipate prime quality writing and prime quality engagement with these characters.”
There may be, nevertheless, a twist to Coen’s romantic life that Geralt by no means needed to fear about: time. For those who’ve learn any of our protection of The Blood of Dawnwalker, you’ll know all the recreation is on a calendar system, and that finishing targets and quests pushes time ahead. You’ve gotten simply 30 days and 30 nights to save lots of your loved ones from evil vampires, and so any time you spend growing a romantic plotline is stealing time away from rescuing your loved ones.
“So if you happen to’re attempting to min-max the quantity of time, perhaps [doing romantic quests] may not be essentially the most affordable factor for Coen to do,” Tomaszkiewicz says with a smile.
Tomaszkiewicz emphasises that romance is “not the primary focus of the sport”, largely as a result of of that aforementioned state of affairs along with his household. That, and in addition as a result of he’s been remodeled right into a half-man, half-vampire. That sort of a curse has to maintain a person fairly busy, in any case.
“However we undoubtedly wished to incorporate it,” he added. “We imagine that it is a factor that quite a bit of gamers are wanting as much as. And additionally it is one other dimension the place we will flesh out Coen’s character.”
It will not be too lengthy earlier than it’s important to select between romance and household – The Blood of Dawnwalker launches later this yr on September 3. To be taught extra, try our preview of the RPG’s consequence-filled prologue, in addition to our interview with recreation director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz.
Matt Purslow is IGN’s Govt Editor of Options.