I replayed (and finally finished) the first Witcher game a few weeks ago and I'm now playing the new Witcher 3. While I think the first one wasn't actually that great as a game, I think the other two are among the greatest RPGs ever made and the whole series might very well be the best incarnation of Sword & Sorcery in videogames.
I think the third game gets even meaner than the books with reepier and more evil monsters. And the war ravaged countryside with its bandits and warlords reminded me a lot of Karl Wagner in its unpleasantness. The "child that lives not, yet did not die" reminded me of a line from a Kane story of "an innocent soul that has never lived, a damned soul who can never die". Wonder if that was meant as a reference? (The answer to the riddles is the same.)
I think the third game gets even meaner than the books with reepier and more evil monsters. And the war ravaged countryside with its bandits and warlords reminded me a lot of Karl Wagner in its unpleasantness. The "child that lives not, yet did not die" reminded me of a line from a Kane story of "an innocent soul that has never lived, a damned soul who can never die". Wonder if that was meant as a reference? (The answer to the riddles is the same.)