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Dude! This scene basically sums up how the same fight went I'm the show almost play by play. Except the game version of Geralt was way more in control of the situation in this depiction.
The scene was amazing, glad more people will be learning about this wonderful world and all it’s lore now thanks to the show! Did y’all already watch every episode like me lol
@@briarios666 I personally prefer the game version of the beast. With the ginger hair you can guess there is a human cursed underneath, while in the serie it's just a hideous thing, not really inspired.
@@hartincmajor202 but at least u are not saying that the show is more book accurate than the games those idiots rly anger me. Im ok with some changes but some that are breaking the character later on are just disturbing me. how am i supposed ti be surprised that he got his ass beaten by Vilgefortz in showing of his strength if he got beaten so hard in his normal job he is supposed to be perfect at
@@justyourordinarytom6528 idk dude, have you considered just enjoying the content or just not consuming it? I know it's a hard choice, but I believe in you
Came here just after reading the first chapter of the Witcher book it's almost the same that it is portrayed in the book (but it's way cooler in the book). What an awesome animation !
Say what you want, this is way better than what series showed us. Here Geralt survives because of skill, and you can see how he is trying to knock off striga without causing any significant damage. As one method fails after enother, he slowly switches to more and more dangerous means, right up to drawing his silver sword in the end. In the series Geralt gets dominated by striga and only survives because of the plot armor.
@@orangesoda4535 I preferred the fight in the series vs this simple because in the game he's just op but in the series as much as he's different and more powerful than others he is after all still part human and shows he can get caught out it adds more depth etc to the character and for a better fight rather than it being one sided
No it wasn't...geralt got his ass kicked in the show, and appeared weak and desperate. This one is way better, and highlights his skills as a witcher, his patience and his tactics. The netflix show made him look like an amateur and a weakling.
@@Cheatsy1989 He was neither weak nor scared in the show. The fight went very closely to what the book said and even in the trailer, if you cared to listen to the last bit, it is mentioned that he nearly got killed by that striga.
@@Cheatsy1989 the fight in the show is very similar to the books. Geralt did have a rough time with the striga, and it was shown that way in the show. If he just walked over every fight, it'd be boring. In the Witcher 3 cinematic when he fights the vampire chick he almost dies as well...do you even pay attention to the lore bro?
@UCytL6HFFNFj9A_wrfyxDDVw Striga is the most popular in Albania and Kosovo then in Italy or Poland. I read rome and poland had it too. But Striga is an daily topic in Albania&kosovo. Every Albanian kid is scared to death if you mention Striga 😂👹
@WlakyMaster Striga is first mention in ancient Rome, i don't agree at all because Albanian/Illyrian mythology dates about Striga before rome. Whatever Striga is daily routine in Albania and Kosovo. Kids talk about Striga all the time. And yes i read that Striga is also well known in slavic mythology (Poland). Btw what do you think of mini schengen? All Albanians are against it but our president dosen't give a shit. So i'm wondering if serbs hate it too or?
@WlakyMaster yes vucic is in tirana right now and they are saying to work together because EU and western countries (russia too haha) are only using balkan countries for worse. Well that's true we ain't gonna be friends because of Kosovo but you know hoe balkans are we are crazy, we will never stop LOL. Btw i don't really get serbs, i mean you know albanians were here before slavs arrived. do you agree?
@@wingsfan1993 yeah idk what these people are talking about lol, at long as it's not crazy high, you can just press the roll key/button right before you touch the ground
I seriously enjoyed all forms of this fight in particular from the books to the games to the Netflix show all of them did there own little twists and I love them all respectively
After playing Witcher 3 on gamepass for a bit I finally decided to get into the books, and from The Last Wish, this is pretty much exactly how the fight went.
I love how he just embarrasses the striga just bc he can, like a striga is portrayed as one of the most difficult things (atleast in show) and Geralt just starts beating her with his bare hands and then slices her hair and then has the cheek to make her run away just by saying “boo” 😂😂
In the books, he kind of turns a manifestation of the hatred that cursed the princess back onto her like 'a mirror' so that she has to experience the horrible emotions for the first time, and it overwhelms her long enough for him to run to the crypt
What Tyler said. But I played the first game before ever reading the book so it seemed to me back then (and tbh while watching this now as well) that it was more a matter of establishing dominance as a means to intimidate the prey without having to draw blood :)
The best way to compare this to the Netflix version is to look at what both scenes are trying to accomplish. In the game, this is our introduction to Geralt--a badass monster hunter. He is competent, barely struggles, and actually scares off the beast. He only gets hurt because he dropped his guard for the pretty lady. This is what it means to be a Witcher. This is who you get to play as. Conversely, by this point in the show, we already know Geralt. We've seen him be a badass. It's a better story if he struggles--especially against a monster that's already killed one Witcher. If Geralt doesn't struggle, we start to wonder if Witchers are all they're cracked up to be and Geralt is only this badass because he's the protagonist. I haven't read the books, so I can't make that comparison, but both the show and the game succeed in what they were trying to do and the scenes wouldn't fit properly if you replaced either one with the other.
@@Jun-Kyard its literally whats described in the book. Geralt is this op. The guy fights werewolves, griffins and shit 100x worse than Strigas with relative ease. What we see in the series is simply not an accurate portrayel of how this fight went down in terms of who was in control
@@pedroj3432 In the show it's pretty clear that Geralt would have been in control if he were allowed to kill the Striga, and was only struggling to keep the girl alive. I think they did a fine job in introducing stakes.
@@pedroj3432 the games are generally a better adaptation than show but one things Netflix does better is geralt strugling (unlike games where he is quite op) which he does in the books- loses to Vilgefortz gets captured by boholt and his men, gets picked up by a walking tree, gets badly hurt when fighting assassin's and Rience you should refresh your menory.
Okay, so to everyone complaining about the Striga fight in the Netflix show not being like this or like the book, let me just shed some light on it that might change your viewpoint. Things that work well on paper don't always translate to screen very well. I think the show does a masterful job of portraying the Striga. The writers clearly envisioned this creature like something out of a horror film, and that's what they went for. They pulled it off fantastically. It may not have been 100% faithful to the source material, but it sure as hell worked in scaring the shit out of a lot of people
Way better than the netflix one. The netflix one has a lot of problems. Rather than fighting in the open ground where the witcher could dodge around, he fought in closed corridor that forceed him to brute force his way through. That's not very smart. He couldn't even seal the entrance and had to race for the coffin bed in the Netflix version.
My hunch was right, going here while I was watching ep 3 and seeing that striga is the one from cinamatic intro of witcher 1. Not even finished watching it lol
Playing through the first witcher game as we speak - I'm not sure if I should be sad that I have missed this until now, or happy that I get to experience it for the first time, even if the game feels dated, as the Netflix series is airing in parallel. I think I'm happy how it all turned out!
@@premaritalbread6824 because its classic and soundtrack, drinking potion, sword moves are more cool also this striga is not throwminator at least she is trying to kill geralt not throw away like in the tv series
@@Beanthemx What was more realistic? Wtf id that suppose to mean? This cinematic showcases word to word what Sapkowski wrote, how he meant to showcase Geralt as professional. What's not realistic in being true to canon?
Geralt in Witcher games and books: Beats Striga so bad that it runs while whimpering. Geralt in Netflix’s Abomination: Runs and hides from Striga, because she is a strong independent woman.
This cinematic plays WAAY better than it did off my old 2008 PC. Back then I had to shut everything off, including the antivirus to get it to run. There was no frustration like playing for half an hour then having it crash only to remember I forgot to save my progress. Just one or two 'rage-quits' there. Lol
Probably because the writer himself was supervising the series production, yet the games similarity part probably was production and maybe even Cavill himself merit.
@@Andrecg99 Well we have instences of that through most series and movies eg. star wars and GoT.. the show runners do not always listen to the writer.. I've earned a lot of respect for the witchers first season lets hope it continues.
KidsAgain I agree... But in the later seasons, it seems that Triss has a bigger part in Geralt's life, and I don't see any click in Henry Cavill and Anna Shaffer having a relationship. It's just weird and ugh
I like this much better than the show. It's way more accurate to what the short story in the book describes and doesn't make Geralt look half dead from the first two minutes. Sure, he doesn't jump buildings but at least I can compare my imagination with this illustration unlike the show that just made into a horror film.
It's aard. In the books Geralt used it for such long time while Striga was coming closer and closer. In the TV Series aard is used to throw Striga away for short ammount of time.
It was more a stylistic choice. Netflix-Geralt uses much subtler magic and uses it less often than Game-Geralt. NG uses a short-burst Aard like four times in the show total, and besides that only uses obvious magic to seal the Striga in the building with him and to seal the lid of the tomb. I think it was done to put more emphasis on sword-fighting and to better differentiate between Witcher-magic and mage-magic without spending much time explaining it. Plus once he does it once, the audience starts asking why he doesn't do it more often.
I've never read the books, I watched the Netflix series and played TW3. Idk what Gertalt is like in the books but compared to the fight in the Netflix series this is pretty much night and day. I don't see how people say it's similar. Netflix Geralt was struggling like crazy against the Striga, he was barely able to climb into the tomb with the Striga right on his tail after being beated up pretty badly, similar to how the fight with the TW3 Striga was. In this version Geralt's absolutely dominating the Striga in every way. In the beginning he's basically beating the Striga in a fist fight. After that it seems to me like he's almost toying with it, letting the Striga get close at the Igni moment and letting it fly away. He's incredibly nimble, climbing the tower like he's weightless, and after he pulls out the silver sword the Striga runs away in fear like a scared dog, the even added the scared dog sound effect. Geralt then calmly walks to the tomb and locks himself in there, almost like fighting the Striga was an afterthought. Thb I like this version a lot. Geralt is incredibly strong after all, and fighting monsters is what he does best so it makes sense that he would do quick work of a single Striga with ample time to prepare. But either this Geralt's way too strong, or the other depictions of Geralt are way too weak, 'cuase there's no comparison between them.
And in the books, during the fight, he only received a scratch to his back that was stopped by his armor so no major wound or bleeding. He only nearly died at the end due to the surprise throat slash
Geralt usually overcomes anything in the books. He's not a mumbling buffon who doesn't express much opinion about anything unlike in the show, he's not as quippy as he's in games either, but that's because he spends most of the books with some relentless chase that he's not enjoying at all. He is more violent, not someone you'd wanna cross, doesn't draw his blade that qucikly, but once he does, usually maimes, butchers or severely traumatises people who face him. He's also quiet unpredictable, when faced with impossible choices, he does't he least probable thing
Netflix striga is spot-on w.r.t. the scenario. A starving striga which eats only the heart and the liver is supposed to be skinny. But this is amazing none the less, I played the first witcher game and read the book, when I came to this part in the book I finished it and came back here. CDPR did an impeccable job 13 Years back!!!!
@@husnainali2050 i dont really think you can call it like this, take into consideration the fact that the objective wasn't to beat it, but rather to keep it occupied until dawn so the curse can be removed. So Geralt may have been able to finish it off, but held back bc he didn't want to hurt it.
As someone who played Witcher 3 wild hunt and watched the show I’m not surprised geralt just had a fist fight with what’s supposed to be a dangerous monster he fist fights a bear and troll on skelliger aswell
Um, no...Geralt got his ass kicked in the Netflix adaptation...this is a much much accurate representation of how it happened in the book. Geralt wasn't even touched by the striga until the end when he let his guard down.
@@Nileshmadhav95 except we have shitbrickfaced superman in the series who got turned into an emotionless wimp. Geralt is a trained monster hunter. One of the best. He is a legend in the world. Getting his ass handed to him by mid-tier bloodsucker. Really?? Fucking Really??
Netflix did a lot different. For instance one character who is killed early on is actually still very much alive and present to help defend Kaer Morhen from the Wild Hunt.
@@MsKeylas bruh the striga is really powerful in the series. which is great. If Geralt was the fucking superman he was like in the games its not even fun to watch.
Some people call TV Series Striga fight more realistic version while they don't know that this old cinematic trailer is almost 100% true to the books (don't remember jumping from high). TV Series version made Striga more powerful abd Geralt weaker which is good too but far from Sapkowski's vision where he meant to showcase Geralt as professional doing his job perfectly.
Geralt being more vulnerable makes the live action series more credible as a whole. If he was as untouchable in the live action series as he was in this cutscene or in the book, it wouldn't have been nearly as good.
@@rithrius5384 I disagree. Because Geralt as a Witcher after mutations was so powerful made fights more about shades of grey, rather than "if Witcher gonna survive or will he come out victorious". It's not Game of Thrones, story isn't about everyone being killable, even main protagonists. It's about those shades of grey, something more than just destiny and being good in such cruel world. + making Geralt so powerful helped boost the person who beaten him in the books and that loss echoes throughout the story.
@@pawe1721 EXACTLY. Geralt is Legendary White Wolf for fuck sake. but in the show..... he is an emotionless pussy wimp at best who got his ass handed to him by mid-tier bloodsucker
Netrunner But we haven’t reached that point in the chapters yet, and winning that final fight with vilgefortz was just pure luck, Geralt said so himself.
Book and this cinematic: Geralt frees Ostrit so that he may lure the striga outside were he has a lot of space to fight and dodge. Netflix: Geralt leaves Ostrit tied up so he can fight the striga on thigh corridors were he has little space to move and get trowed around...
Also in books: Striga jumps on Geralt with her sharp fangs and claws with intent to rip him appart Netflix: Striga tosses Geralt around without using her deadlies weapons
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Geralt in Cinematic: Jumps off from a tower window and lands superhero style
geralt in witcher 3: jumps from 2 meters : *dead*
Hasn’t aged well
Geralt from Netflix: gets his ass beat by everyone
Or just press b and survive
@@beni5149 How so? Hasn't lost a single fight that I remember in the show.
@@lehtokurppa7824 he's just salty about the show
This is actually how they describe the fight in the book
Yes it is. Literally just finished that chapter
Yeah. And Geralt took no hits at all(except for the throat slash at the end). Meanwhile in the show, Geralt gets his ass kicked
@@LuisEduardo-xm3tc Yeah no surprised there. When Netflix has the rights, strong independent wahmen matters. Fuck your canon.
@@nosha47 that's dumb as fuck bro
@@nosha47 💩
I lost my mind when I saw Henry Cavill swinging that chain around!
Fck ya! Striga was creepy as fck, then he steps out like a boss!!!
Just saw it!
Me too
Dude! This scene basically sums up how the same fight went I'm the show almost play by play. Except the game version of Geralt was way more in control of the situation in this depiction.
@@lightartorias552 I like the show version...the fact that he was beat up that bad actually made it feel like killing the striga was a big deal
Trust me when I say this video view count will blow in the next few days.
Light Bringer yeah after watching episode 3 on netflix😂
The scene was amazing, glad more people will be learning about this wonderful world and all it’s lore now thanks to the show! Did y’all already watch every episode like me lol
Part of the reason I'm hear, tho I actually preferred the series monster vs this style was just more demonic etc
@@briarios666 I personally prefer the game version of the beast. With the ginger hair you can guess there is a human cursed underneath, while in the serie it's just a hideous thing, not really inspired.
@@monaaa5178 it's a curse there's nothing inspiring about lol and you wouldn't expect such a thing to be inspiring that's kinda the point 🤣🤦🏻♂️
It's crazy how accurate this cinematic is to the scene in The Last Wish. They really paid close attention to detail
unlike the show
@@justyourordinarytom6528 it's almost like the show utilizes creative liberty
@@hartincmajor202 there is a difference between breaking the original material and using creative utility u know?
@@hartincmajor202 but at least u are not saying that the show is more book accurate than the games those idiots rly anger me. Im ok with some changes but some that are breaking the character later on are just disturbing me. how am i supposed ti be surprised that he got his ass beaten by Vilgefortz in showing of his strength if he got beaten so hard in his normal job he is supposed to be perfect at
@@justyourordinarytom6528 idk dude, have you considered just enjoying the content or just not consuming it? I know it's a hard choice, but I believe in you
That jump from the window would've definitely killed geralt on the wild hunt 😂
Was looking for that comment 😂😂
Came here just after reading the first chapter of the Witcher book it's almost the same that it is portrayed in the book (but it's way cooler in the book).
What an awesome animation !
Funny thing is, I am just watching the 2002 series and it is also almost the same as there. Well, obviously... :D
Same here
yup same
I think the princess was supposed to be ugly.
turns out I am not the only one .
Say what you want, this is way better than what series showed us. Here Geralt survives because of skill, and you can see how he is trying to knock off striga without causing any significant damage. As one method fails after enother, he slowly switches to more and more dangerous means, right up to drawing his silver sword in the end.
In the series Geralt gets dominated by striga and only survives because of the plot armor.
If he really want to kill that he wouldn't risk himself
It's been a decade since I beat the first Witcher game. Today I saw the 3rd episode in the series and the striga scene seemed like Deja vu
@Unbreakable Patches That's the second time she becomes a striga later in the story.
@Unbreakable Patches that striga is the second time she becomes one, the game happens after all of this
Don’t know how people could mess up saving Adda, you just gotta spam Quen and Aard lmao
Who's here after episode 3 of the Witcher?
Me
Meeee
Not gonna lie, kinda disappointed with the live action version of the striga fight
@@orangesoda4535 I preferred the fight in the series vs this simple because in the game he's just op but in the series as much as he's different and more powerful than others he is after all still part human and shows he can get caught out it adds more depth etc to the character and for a better fight rather than it being one sided
i dont like fights in new witcher series poorly designed fight choreography
Unrealistic AF, Geralt dies from much shorter falls than that!
All you gotta do is press the jump button again right before touching the ground, he will roll and won't take fall damage.
@@lucaseamaral I've done that and done that, its saved me on a few occasions but generally I'm loading from last save lol
Didn't even roll
What's unrealistic is Geralt's glass knees in Witcher 3 that shatter if you fall from like 5 feet.
love they close they kept to the fight in the show, even though geralt got hurt rather badly in the show
"tho gravely wounded the Witcher lifted the curse and gained fame". they just did not show his injury's in the game
@@robertjackson3552 yes it's after this figth that he has his face scar in the games.
yeah especially with all the black people
Killingglorie If you read the books, Geralt often gets his ass handed to him.
@@rickyevans2697
He follows Rocky's advice
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said it well!
The Netflix version was pretty spot on with this as well. Love the show.
man, ive re-watched that scene more times than I care to admin
creepy af. umbilical dragin n all that. yikes
captcorajus oh yea just fall through the ground and the monster is ko
No it wasn't...geralt got his ass kicked in the show, and appeared weak and desperate. This one is way better, and highlights his skills as a witcher, his patience and his tactics. The netflix show made him look like an amateur and a weakling.
@@Cheatsy1989 He was neither weak nor scared in the show. The fight went very closely to what the book said and even in the trailer, if you cared to listen to the last bit, it is mentioned that he nearly got killed by that striga.
@@Cheatsy1989 the fight in the show is very similar to the books. Geralt did have a rough time with the striga, and it was shown that way in the show. If he just walked over every fight, it'd be boring. In the Witcher 3 cinematic when he fights the vampire chick he almost dies as well...do you even pay attention to the lore bro?
I knew that scene from netflix was familiar,
Same here. The moment he laid in the sarcophagus I just told myself: "Wait, I saw this somewhere!" 😁😅
Came to watch this again after the Netflix Witcher.
Was reading the book “the last wish” in amazon kindle now since I already finished the Witcher 3 and can’t get enough of the Witcher.
Here after watching Netflix Witcher
I highly encourage reading The Last Wish, now. Literally the first chapter this is very fight that nearly killed Geralt. 😁
Same and I'm Albanian so I was surprised they used Albanian mythology Striga in the series
@UCytL6HFFNFj9A_wrfyxDDVw
Striga is the most popular in Albania and Kosovo then in Italy or Poland. I read rome and poland had it too. But Striga is an daily topic in Albania&kosovo. Every Albanian kid is scared to death if you mention Striga 😂👹
@WlakyMaster Striga is first mention in ancient Rome, i don't agree at all because Albanian/Illyrian mythology dates about Striga before rome. Whatever Striga is daily routine in Albania and Kosovo. Kids talk about Striga all the time.
And yes i read that Striga is also well known in slavic mythology (Poland).
Btw what do you think of mini schengen? All Albanians are against it but our president dosen't give a shit. So i'm wondering if serbs hate it too or?
@WlakyMaster
yes vucic is in tirana right now and they are saying to work together because EU and western countries (russia too haha) are only using balkan countries for worse.
Well that's true we ain't gonna be friends because of Kosovo but you know hoe balkans are we are crazy, we will never stop LOL.
Btw i don't really get serbs, i mean you know albanians were here before slavs arrived. do you agree?
that jump would cost 50%HP...that second jump would kill Geralt...
In the witcher 3 you can roll to avoid jumo damage
@@wingsfan1993 yeah idk what these people are talking about lol, at long as it's not crazy high, you can just press the roll key/button right before you touch the ground
50%? You mean 110% right? His knees are that weak he’s still feeling embarrassed in the next save 😂
@@nok4799 the point is: *here he doesn't roll either*
Good thing the series, the game, and the book has good similarities in it unlike other live actions out there.
yeah thanks god tgey didn't ruined it.....
Yeaaa no
This is probably the most lore accurate geralt depiction from the games
How the heck youtube knew I finished witcher striga fight on netflix and watching this will be a great experience after that. Bravo
It's almost same as the book..loved it..
I'm surprised how accurate this fight scene is according to the book. That's rarely the case when it comes to novel adaptations.
Yeah its great when its faithful to source material
I seriously enjoyed all forms of this fight in particular from the books to the games to the Netflix show all of them did there own little twists and I love them all respectively
After playing Witcher 3 on gamepass for a bit I finally decided to get into the books, and from The Last Wish, this is pretty much exactly how the fight went.
Before: Came for the scene of the book.
Now:Returned for the scene in the Netflix series.
I love how he just embarrasses the striga just bc he can, like a striga is portrayed as one of the most difficult things (atleast in show) and Geralt just starts beating her with his bare hands and then slices her hair and then has the cheek to make her run away just by saying “boo” 😂😂
In the books, he kind of turns a manifestation of the hatred that cursed the princess back onto her like 'a mirror' so that she has to experience the horrible emotions for the first time, and it overwhelms her long enough for him to run to the crypt
What Tyler said. But I played the first game before ever reading the book so it seemed to me back then (and tbh while watching this now as well) that it was more a matter of establishing dominance as a means to intimidate the prey without having to draw blood :)
Just read the first book had to come rewatch this. They did a really good job
Who'd imagine even the Witcher has a tiny bit of Bioware in it.
@Long Nguyen Watch the start, The Witcher 1 was build on Bioware's Aurora engine.
The best way to compare this to the Netflix version is to look at what both scenes are trying to accomplish.
In the game, this is our introduction to Geralt--a badass monster hunter. He is competent, barely struggles, and actually scares off the beast. He only gets hurt because he dropped his guard for the pretty lady. This is what it means to be a Witcher. This is who you get to play as.
Conversely, by this point in the show, we already know Geralt. We've seen him be a badass. It's a better story if he struggles--especially against a monster that's already killed one Witcher. If Geralt doesn't struggle, we start to wonder if Witchers are all they're cracked up to be and Geralt is only this badass because he's the protagonist.
I haven't read the books, so I can't make that comparison, but both the show and the game succeed in what they were trying to do and the scenes wouldn't fit properly if you replaced either one with the other.
Yeah this cinematic made Geralt look way too strong
@@Jun-Kyard its literally whats described in the book.
Geralt is this op. The guy fights werewolves, griffins and shit 100x worse than Strigas with relative ease.
What we see in the series is simply not an accurate portrayel of how this fight went down in terms of who was in control
@@pedroj3432 In the show it's pretty clear that Geralt would have been in control if he were allowed to kill the Striga, and was only struggling to keep the girl alive. I think they did a fine job in introducing stakes.
@@pedroj3432 the games are generally a better adaptation than show but one things Netflix does better is geralt strugling (unlike games where he is quite op) which he does in the books- loses to Vilgefortz gets captured by boholt and his men, gets picked up by a walking tree, gets badly hurt when fighting assassin's and Rience you should refresh your menory.
Okay, so to everyone complaining about the Striga fight in the Netflix show not being like this or like the book, let me just shed some light on it that might change your viewpoint. Things that work well on paper don't always translate to screen very well. I think the show does a masterful job of portraying the Striga. The writers clearly envisioned this creature like something out of a horror film, and that's what they went for. They pulled it off fantastically. It may not have been 100% faithful to the source material, but it sure as hell worked in scaring the shit out of a lot of people
Monster looked kind of stupid to be honest. Couldve been better
No one is complaining dumbass. Everyone is praising netflix witcher.
@@princeofsomnia7664 a lot of people have complained about the Striga design. Why did you have to insult me?
I haven’t seen any negative comments?
Everyone’s going to complain dipshit it’s part of human nature.
Geralt had no trouble fighting that striga here but on netflix..he was getting thrown around like a sack
It's Netflix... lol
This geralt looks like a predator and a profesional. In the series I cant say the same.
The series has him soy-infused beta witcher
Way better than the netflix one. The netflix one has a lot of problems. Rather than fighting in the open ground where the witcher could dodge around, he fought in closed corridor that forceed him to brute force his way through. That's not very smart. He couldn't even seal the entrance and had to race for the coffin bed in the Netflix version.
Meanwhile, in Witcher 3, you collapse from a 2m fall.
Yet you can slay detlaff...hmmm
My hunch was right, going here while I was watching ep 3 and seeing that striga is the one from cinamatic intro of witcher 1.
Not even finished watching it lol
This is actually 100% true to the book
Reading the book now, glad this got animated
It's part of the first game
and now live action(with a good budget)
@@HelloThere-zt7jm but horrible writing cast and all and all horrible adaptation
Just finished reading that part of the book 2 years after I played this game for the first time. This is a pretty good recreation
Haven't really played the old Witcher games. It's hard to go back to these graphics after Witcher 3.
Playing through the first witcher game as we speak - I'm not sure if I should be sad that I have missed this until now, or happy that I get to experience it for the first time, even if the game feels dated, as the Netflix series is airing in parallel.
I think I'm happy how it all turned out!
Still better then TV series
How?
@@premaritalbread6824 because its classic and soundtrack, drinking potion, sword moves are more cool also this striga is not throwminator at least she is trying to kill geralt not throw away like in the tv series
@@TheBurak47 Yes sir.
I like how he was rag dolling the striga with his bare hands and brute strength
Scorpion Mead the show was more realistic he barely stood a chance
@@Beanthemx
What was more realistic? Wtf id that suppose to mean?
This cinematic showcases word to word what Sapkowski wrote, how he meant to showcase Geralt as professional.
What's not realistic in being true to canon?
Netrunner Not really. Geralt was almost killed facing the Striga. His throat was ripped out! The cinematic wasn’t really true to the book.
@@rickyevans2697 Because it ended at the exact moment where he got ripped out?
Ricky Evans he reks the strigga an then goes to check on her after hed pummeled her and that’s when he gets said scar.
Omg he is fucking OP!!! I like both fights, this and the series one! An awesome character
Geralt in Witcher games and books: Beats Striga so bad that it runs while whimpering.
Geralt in Netflix’s Abomination: Runs and hides from Striga, because she is a strong independent woman.
he puts up a way better fight here than in the show
This cinematic plays WAAY better than it did off my old 2008 PC. Back then I had to shut everything off, including the antivirus to get it to run. There was no frustration like playing for half an hour then having it crash only to remember I forgot to save my progress. Just one or two 'rage-quits' there. Lol
The series stayed so true to the books and cinematics... good to see that good producers still exist
Probably because the writer himself was supervising the series production, yet the games similarity part probably was production and maybe even Cavill himself merit.
@@Andrecg99 Well we have instences of that through most series and movies eg. star wars and GoT.. the show runners do not always listen to the writer.. I've earned a lot of respect for the witchers first season lets hope it continues.
But triss and fringilla are....
@@spadeecstasy8709 Well yea... i kinda see that.. But at the same time im not let a ginger change ruin the show for me.
KidsAgain I agree... But in the later seasons, it seems that Triss has a bigger part in Geralt's life, and I don't see any click in Henry Cavill and Anna Shaffer having a relationship. It's just weird and ugh
When THIS
Most epic, then NETFLIX adaptation
Prob Hunter are you dumb or idiot?
@@jacktheripper6698 both
This was intense live version
Just like the book told! I am really impressed with this cinematic video.
I can't say if the series did it better, but this scene was epic in both adaptations and I love that
This is the best video of the Witcher series.
Btw. at the end of the fight when these there nails appeared geralt had his neck cut to the point that only a bit of time and it would be it.
I'm actually surprised how accurate this is to the books..nearly word for word animated.
0:58 isnt that ................Aerondight?!?
Indeed it is
Yup, it is. For some reason
Yes it is!
Had to watch this after seeing Henry Cavil fuck that Striga up with brass knuckles.
Cinematic was better than the show
I like this much better than the show. It's way more accurate to what the short story in the book describes and doesn't make Geralt look half dead from the first two minutes. Sure, he doesn't jump buildings but at least I can compare my imagination with this illustration unlike the show that just made into a horror film.
Holy cow, CD has come a looooonnnng way from this
DVD and Blu-Ray.
I don't know why but cracked up when he took a drink of that potion. His face is a little funny looking
I actually like the veins on Geralt’s face when he drinks potions
@@simoneidson21 yea that part is cool.
Would have been cool if they had him use the magic move at 4:04 on the Netflix series.
Too expensive?
Cost too much mana. Witchers were using signs rarely, only when sword and potions were not enough.
It's aard.
In the books Geralt used it for such long time while Striga was coming closer and closer.
In the TV Series aard is used to throw Striga away for short ammount of time.
It was more a stylistic choice. Netflix-Geralt uses much subtler magic and uses it less often than Game-Geralt. NG uses a short-burst Aard like four times in the show total, and besides that only uses obvious magic to seal the Striga in the building with him and to seal the lid of the tomb.
I think it was done to put more emphasis on sword-fighting and to better differentiate between Witcher-magic and mage-magic without spending much time explaining it.
Plus once he does it once, the audience starts asking why he doesn't do it more often.
Best episode of the show so far
*The time of the sword and ax is nigh.*
I've never read the books, I watched the Netflix series and played TW3. Idk what Gertalt is like in the books but compared to the fight in the Netflix series this is pretty much night and day. I don't see how people say it's similar. Netflix Geralt was struggling like crazy against the Striga, he was barely able to climb into the tomb with the Striga right on his tail after being beated up pretty badly, similar to how the fight with the TW3 Striga was.
In this version Geralt's absolutely dominating the Striga in every way. In the beginning he's basically beating the Striga in a fist fight. After that it seems to me like he's almost toying with it, letting the Striga get close at the Igni moment and letting it fly away. He's incredibly nimble, climbing the tower like he's weightless, and after he pulls out the silver sword the Striga runs away in fear like a scared dog, the even added the scared dog sound effect. Geralt then calmly walks to the tomb and locks himself in there, almost like fighting the Striga was an afterthought.
Thb I like this version a lot. Geralt is incredibly strong after all, and fighting monsters is what he does best so it makes sense that he would do quick work of a single Striga with ample time to prepare. But either this Geralt's way too strong, or the other depictions of Geralt are way too weak, 'cuase there's no comparison between them.
There's no Striga in TW3 bro
And in the books, during the fight, he only received a scratch to his back that was stopped by his armor so no major wound or bleeding. He only nearly died at the end due to the surprise throat slash
Geralt usually overcomes anything in the books. He's not a mumbling buffon who doesn't express much opinion about anything unlike in the show, he's not as quippy as he's in games either, but that's because he spends most of the books with some relentless chase that he's not enjoying at all.
He is more violent, not someone you'd wanna cross, doesn't draw his blade that qucikly, but once he does, usually maimes, butchers or severely traumatises people who face him.
He's also quiet unpredictable, when faced with impossible choices, he does't he least probable thing
Series are not the same as in the book. Cool video. Glad I got to play the witcher 1 and 2. Gonna see this comment section full in a couple of days
??? This is exactly how it happend in the book.
@@zamaskowany12 sorry actually meant the series did not reflect what is in the book. They ommitted some important stuff
Difference from here and the book are small but SHE DOESN'T LOOK LIKE FRIGGING BEAR!
Even without the potions, young Geralt looks like a ghoulish elf
Came here from netflix Witcher...
After reading Last Wish I truly appreciate this more.
I prefer the strige from Netflix. Very vericeral, scaring. But damn ... this cinematic will never get old oO
Netflix striga is spot-on w.r.t. the scenario. A starving striga which eats only the heart and the liver is supposed to be skinny. But this is amazing none the less, I played the first witcher game and read the book, when I came to this part in the book I finished it and came back here. CDPR did an impeccable job 13 Years back!!!!
Netflix witcher had hard time beating the striga
thats why the scene was good
@@husnainali2050 i dont really think you can call it like this, take into consideration the fact that the objective wasn't to beat it, but rather to keep it occupied until dawn so the curse can be removed. So Geralt may have been able to finish it off, but held back bc he didn't want to hurt it.
@@Reena2784 may be if the fight will be one sided it would be boring....
Just dropping by after seeing this on The Witcher on Netflix... FUCKING AWESOME
Who after Netflix Witcher?
the best witcher cinematic, out of all 3 games
This reminds me of the story of Beowulf. 😁
As someone who played Witcher 3 wild hunt and watched the show I’m not surprised geralt just had a fist fight with what’s supposed to be a dangerous monster he fist fights a bear and troll on skelliger aswell
This scene is actually from the books. He fist fights to striga so he doesn't want to kill her by accident
He also bites tf out of her lol
Looks pretty close as to what was done in the Netflix adaptation
Um, no...Geralt got his ass kicked in the Netflix adaptation...this is a much much accurate representation of how it happened in the book. Geralt wasn't even touched by the striga until the end when he let his guard down.
@@Cheatsy1989 and the series' fight was good, don't want another superman who one punch everyone
@@Nileshmadhav95 except we have shitbrickfaced superman in the series who got turned into an emotionless wimp. Geralt is a trained monster hunter. One of the best. He is a legend in the world. Getting his ass handed to him by mid-tier bloodsucker. Really?? Fucking Really??
Netflix did a lot different. For instance one character who is killed early on is actually still very much alive and present to help defend Kaer Morhen from the Wild Hunt.
@@MsKeylas bruh the striga is really powerful in the series. which is great. If Geralt was the fucking superman he was like in the games its not even fun to watch.
I love this fight so much
Some people call TV Series Striga fight more realistic version while they don't know that this old cinematic trailer is almost 100% true to the books (don't remember jumping from high).
TV Series version made Striga more powerful abd Geralt weaker which is good too but far from Sapkowski's vision where he meant to showcase Geralt as professional doing his job perfectly.
Geralt being more vulnerable makes the live action series more credible as a whole. If he was as untouchable in the live action series as he was in this cutscene or in the book, it wouldn't have been nearly as good.
@@rithrius5384 I disagree. Because Geralt as a Witcher after mutations was so powerful made fights more about shades of grey, rather than "if Witcher gonna survive or will he come out victorious".
It's not Game of Thrones, story isn't about everyone being killable, even main protagonists.
It's about those shades of grey, something more than just destiny and being good in such cruel world.
+ making Geralt so powerful helped boost the person who beaten him in the books and that loss echoes throughout the story.
@@pawe1721 EXACTLY. Geralt is Legendary White Wolf for fuck sake. but in the show..... he is an emotionless pussy wimp at best who got his ass handed to him by mid-tier bloodsucker
Netrunner But we haven’t reached that point in the chapters yet, and winning that final fight with vilgefortz was just pure luck, Geralt said so himself.
@@cappymons8191 wrong. THey are making mish mash of the stories trying to cram everything into one season.
And they're going to remake this, I sure hope they keep the story the same with the modern gameplay.
Can't wait.
Meanwhile, Yennefer is screaming in agonizing pain
Yeah but that's like 60 years ago or something
@@rainbowrabbitinc5789 I was so confused with timelines in the series. Even though I have read first 4 books.
@João Vítor Alves Silva In the show she said she lived life times...
Book and this cinematic: Geralt frees Ostrit so that he may lure the striga outside were he has a lot of space to fight and dodge.
Netflix: Geralt leaves Ostrit tied up so he can fight the striga on thigh corridors were he has little space to move and get trowed around...
Also in books: Striga jumps on Geralt with her sharp fangs and claws with intent to rip him appart
Netflix: Striga tosses Geralt around without using her deadlies weapons
Better than netflix lmao
Just binged The Witcher, my new fav show!
5:52 I imagine this is a sleep elixir.
That's a Witcher potion to increase physical strenght.
@@umcaraqualquer3640 The first one was
@@Nameless0061 Also not, I believe. If I remember correctly, he only took the elixir once hidden inside the castle.
There's no such thing, at least in the games
So awesome
When a single scene is better than most of the first season's episodes, of the Witcher.
Geralt throwing hands is so satisfying to see
CD Projekt should remaster the trilogy
3rd one doesnt need remastered
@@numbnuts375 Yeah, but 1 and 2 definitely need.
Damn. Netflix did geralt dirty
4real. Got his ass beat.
Oh this is so much better than the netflix version
3:53
Geralt: Fuck!
Where are all my OGs that read the books AND played all these games before the show came out?
I only finished Blood of Elves before my bookstore closed.
This was beautiful! So faithful to the book
The less dramatic version of the books great battle that nearly killed Geralt.
Mt favourite monster hunt of the books. 😁