Witcher story lead says surprise ending was 'a mistake'

Artur Ganszyniec, the lead story designer of the original Witcher RPG, recently completed a full playthrough of the game he helped create nearly 20 years ago, documented across 26 separate episodes on YouTube. At the end of it all, he revealed that the game's epic, out-of-nowhere ending wasn't what the story team wanted and called it "a mistake." In the scene Geralt collects his payment from King Foltest and heads for the door, only for a would-be assassin to be revealed as a witcher—a clear setup for a sequel.

Ganszyniec says an animated outro was added late by the board or CD Projekt co-founder Michał Kiciński, and that the script was produced without really involving the story team: "So it was sort of, we weren't really paying attention.

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