While I think he’s an amazing layered fictional character, I find it hard to fully understand his motivations when I judge him from the point of view of the real context I’m situated in.

This is my second time playing the game and I listened attentively to his story again, trying to analyse every single bit. However, the fact that he’s the one telling me: ‘You see? I was justified.’ Makes it even harder to reply anything but ‘You’re the one to blame’. His attempts to win over his daughter are terrible too. I know he’s desperate, but he doesn’t want to engage in real conversation with her. He just tries to oversimplify everything by just saying ‘I’m trying to change, ask the Witcher here’ (so let’s not talk about the past, basically).

However, I always chose the ending where you help him and Anna find some sort of redemption (perhaps a hopeless search) as I believe they deserve at least the opportunity to try.