"If You Think It's Woke, Read The Damn Books": Geralt's Voice Actor Hits Back Against People Who Don't Want Ciri As The Witcher 4's Protagonist

"If You Think It's Woke, Read The Damn Books": Geralt's Voice Actor Hits Back Against People Who Don't Want Ciri As The Witcher 4's Protagonist

From TheGamer (Written by Jack Coleman) on | OpenCritic

CD Projekt Red announced The Witcher 4 at last year's Game Awards with a wonderful cinematic trailer, which depicts Ciri, now a witcher, doing battle with a creature called a Bauk. It hits all the right notes — grim, dirty and hopeless, three words that sum up much of the setting.

If it wasn't clear enough from the trailer, CR Projekt Red also confirmed that Ciri will be the game's protagonist. Although many fans saw this as a natural progression for the series, others are annoyed that Geralt is not reprising his role as the story's protagonist. There's also the usual crowd who say that having a woman protagonist is "woke", but the arguments of those people are hardly worth considering.

It would appear Geralt's voice actor Doug Cockle agrees, as he expressed this sentiment in a recent video from Fall Damage. In the video, Cockle is reacting to comments and memes created by Witcher fans.

One of these posts references the number of people who spammed "woke" when Ciri was unveiled as the game's protagonist during the Game Awards.

"I think that's just stupid," Cockle says. "It's not woke, there's nothing woke about it. It's a cool character from The...

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