The Witcher Blood Origin feels like a classic D&D adventure. It's rife with fun and competent characters, and full of lore and a fairly strong sense of immersion given the low episode count.
Hardcore fans of the Witcher books and games might be upset that this series has gone ahead and altered some of the Witcher lore, but those changes withstanding, this show does feel very much like The Witcher. More than that however, this series works really well as a prequel. It explains the origin of the world we have come to know on The Witcher series and does so quite well.
The action choreography is excellent and easily on par with the Witcher.
My only real complaint of the show is that elves don't much feel like Elves at all. They all really seem like humans with pointy ears. I've experienced Elves in many, many different fantasy IP and in almost all of them they are wholly unique from humans because of their societies. In this adaptation, the elves both look, and conduct themselves exactly like humans in virtually every way. They opted for a very diverse casting, but they did not do so in an intuitive way that might have made the different Elven clans feel more like different clans. Rather, each clan had diversity making it so that none of the clans seemed any different from one another. Some of the decisions make very little sense, but ultimately this has pretty minimal effect on the show.
The acting is pretty good and the Empress is really friggen cute.
Hardcore fans of the Witcher books and games might be upset that this series has gone ahead and altered some of the Witcher lore, but those changes withstanding, this show does feel very much like The Witcher. More than that however, this series works really well as a prequel. It explains the origin of the world we have come to know on The Witcher series and does so quite well.
The action choreography is excellent and easily on par with the Witcher.
My only real complaint of the show is that elves don't much feel like Elves at all. They all really seem like humans with pointy ears. I've experienced Elves in many, many different fantasy IP and in almost all of them they are wholly unique from humans because of their societies. In this adaptation, the elves both look, and conduct themselves exactly like humans in virtually every way. They opted for a very diverse casting, but they did not do so in an intuitive way that might have made the different Elven clans feel more like different clans. Rather, each clan had diversity making it so that none of the clans seemed any different from one another. Some of the decisions make very little sense, but ultimately this has pretty minimal effect on the show.
The acting is pretty good and the Empress is really friggen cute.