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Do you like Elric or the Witcher more, /lit/?

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>>20829790
For me it's Asho!

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>>20829790
For me it's Sando!

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It's the same picture.jpg

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>>20829790
Elric, for sure.

>> No.20830106

>>20829790
The Elric books are better than the Witcher books (at least in translation; I cannot judge them in their original Polish).
It's not exactly on-topic, but The Witcher 2 video game has a great narrative and a (potentially) refreshingly untraditional and satisfying ending that recontextualizes earlier events. Witcher 3 is excellent too (and much better mechanically), but it lacks in narrative shape and tonal consistency compared to 2.

>> No.20831214

>>20830106
Yes, Witcher 2 is a great game. It is much more political than the other 2 and somehow Geralt is always in the middle of happenings/disasters. It is a shame that the PC port is an unoptimized mess

>> No.20831567

>>20829790
elric seems like a more high fantasy kinda thing. i'm a native Polish speaker and in my view the Witcher is YA tier but then again pretty much all fantasy is YA tier except maybe LotR and a few other examples.

the Witcher is basically GoT but with much less thought-out worldbuilding (Sapkowski just didn't care much about this) and just 2 main characters who drive the story forward (Geralt and Ciri). that is to say, it's dark fantasy, politically it's liberal, kinda woke even, apathetic, cynical, iconoclastic, medieval-realistic-like without too much magic

it was great entertainment when i was about 13 but i'd cringe at it now. but then again i cringe at the vast majority of fantasy. i will say this, it is one of the better fantasy settings

>> No.20831898

>>20829790
Witcher. I just love the fact that its retelling of Polish fairy tales

>> No.20832552

>>20830106
The Witcher games are better than their source material, a shame we never got any Elric games. One was a failed project turned into Blood Omen, which was great, but it still sucks nobody tried to adapt him to video games since The Witcher given its success.

>> No.20832627

>>20832552
Looks like I was wrong and that there is hope for an Elric game yet:
https://venturebeat.com/pc-gaming/why-michael-moorcocks-elric-of-melnibone-is-getting-a-game-after-60-years/

>> No.20832836

>>20831567
Elric was the book that Moorcock invented the genre of 'dark fantasy' with so I don't know what you're on about.

>> No.20833257

>>20832836
there are different kinds of dark fantasy. but you're right i'm not too acquainted with elric. he's like berserk no?

>> No.20833838

>>20833257
Not quite.