You can watch this scene (and the episode it's from) in greatly improved visuals, 60fps (1440p, 4k textures, reshade enhanced) here: czcams.com/video/tJ5KMVNvA04/video.html
F**K NO! Because even if I Knew the plot, I saw images of Adult Ciri in Kaer Morhen and a couple of gameplay before having the possibility of playing it myself, I knew that there are a lot of possible endings and a lot of possible action that may influence the plot and the final (some really not as obvious) and they had me in tears of terror because I thought that I made some mistakes or was too slow (Even if I don't have much time to play, I'm taking it slowly exploring and completing all the contracts and sidequest I find, not rushing through the main quest) to save her and possibly there was an unknown storyline where Geralt fails in saving Ciri. And as a big fan of the Witcher Universe, I feel a strong affection for Geralt (which is a fictional character but I feel him really close to myself ) and of course for Ciri and felt heartbroken. I hated them in that moment. NOBODY TOUCHES MY DAUGHTER.
I read a comment somewhere that made me appreciate this scene even more. Geralt has heightened senses so it is believable he can sense if a person is alive (hearing heartbeat, breathing,sensing movement of chest etc). I like to think that after the dwarves spoke about the ashen hair lads dead in the cabin his senses heightened a lot, he was already listening beyond the door and heard nothing. Opened the door and nothing, with every step he is realizing more and more that his senses are perfectly working as always, with every step he is realizing that his daughter isn't breathing, isn't moving, her heart isn't beating. When He moves her the last hope is vanished. How much should this few step must have cost him...
@@f.passanisi damn, played it 4 times, and never thought about it, nevertheless it always brought a tear to my eye. Now what you wrote makes this a more wholesome scene. Good job CDPR. Can be proud of my fellow countrymen. Though that twitching sword should be fixed.
when you take the place of geralt its worse!! in the door he knows (because he is a sorceler) the woman in the bed is dead (no heartbeat, no respiration...) he walk in to verify the face, his daugther extended on the couch?? he return her : the shock, heartbreaken, cant touch her more, have to breath, have to sit, to not collaspe, he cant shred a tear, take her in his arm for a last embrace, a goodbye, a farewell... and she re-live... this cutscene is so strong, theyre was rain in my room that day!
Damn the first time I reached this moment I nearly lost it. For a second I thought I did something wrong, maybe a bad choice, or even worse, CDPR pulled a swerve on us and Geralt failed to reach her in time/was dead all along. My relief and happiness were immense when she woke up
Same. I assumed the game wanted me to take my time collecting stuff, upgrading and helping the world. Then this fucking scene hit me and it broke me for the same reasons as you. Fuck I thought I had fucked up in the worst possible way by helping the world instead of my daughter. But seeing Geralts face when she woke up perfectly captured most our own faces. So much still filled with pain (since pain don't go away in a split second) yet seeing the smidge of happiness upon feeling a hand you didn't expect. Fuck this scene was both cruel and beautiful to us the player. CD projekt red you have both my respect and utter distain for forcing me through that!
@@TheOlondo Yeah me too, speciale because game asked me to save manually few moments before this. I was hearbroken when dwarves told Gerald, she was already dead. God damn you CDPR :D
This is so well made. Every other aspect and plot point of the game falls away in this moment. Geralt isn't a Witcher and Ciri isn't a princess, or the Lady of Space and Time. This is a father finding his daughter, thinking her dead, and grieving for her. His body movements and expressions are captured beautifully, how he hesitates to enter, his slow measured steps, how he rocks Ciri back and forth in his arms like she's a baby. He doesn't want to believe it. It really connects you with the characters. This game is such a work of art.
It’s unfortunate that you cut out the dialogue before this where they tell Geralt the woman inside is dead. THAT really sets the tone and explains geralts hesitation and reluctance to go inside and eventually why he breaks down.
Geralt cradling her like a babe reminds me of my mother's words whenever I complained about her pampering me at 26 years old: "Doesn't matter how old you are, you will always be my little boy"
“You've finally found me! Oh, Geralt! I waited all this time! Yes, a terribly long time... We'll stay together now, won't we? Now we'll be together, right? Say it, Geralt! Forever! Say it!” “Forever, Ciri.” “Yes, just like they said! Geralt! Like they said... I'm your destiny? Say it! I'm your destiny?” “You're something more, Ciri. Something more.” - Sword of Destiny.
There are so. many. layers. First, Geralt's witcher mutations and training blunted his emotions. He's killed, and seen killed, so many humans and creatures. He's seen more corpses than he can possibly remember. Killing is his life. Geralt spends years looking for Ciri. And upon seeing her unblemished "corpse," the humanity that remains in him, all his love, all his hate, everything, surfaces and overwhelms him. All those dead, all that training, nothing could totally extinguish his capacity for love, and by extension, the capacity to feel total loss, the inconsolable grief at the sight of her. Ciri begins to awaken. The flashback is presumably to some training sequence that ended with them finding one another. A young, gawky adolescent Ciri, sees what is basically her father, and runs to his embrace; the mature Ciri knows its feeling without having to look. He's found her, and she's returned to herself. The most emotional scene in the game, and the hardest a video game scene has ever hit me. I don't even have a child, and when I watched this, I cried like she was mine.
The blunted emotions aspect, as addressed in books and even in the game, is a myth generated and even propogated by witchers themselves to make them feared by humans. That said, most witchers do often end up with dulled emotions because of the horrors they witness constantly and it is a defense mechanism against it. But their mutations don't actually remove emotion, it was simply a myth spread throughout the ages (one that Witchers embraced and spread as well as it ultimately served to be useful)
@@Kaplykos You're correct, but not entirely. Netflix did not present the scene as it was originally written. It takes place some time after the siege of Cintra, during the 2nd great invasion of the North by Nilfgaard, 7 months to be precise. Geralt first meets Ciri in the Brokilon forest, but they depart, and Ciri goes back to Cintra and Calanthe, escorted by Mousesack. While travelling, Geralt comes across a man being attacked by nekkers at a bridge, and while helping him, he is wounded in the leg, and falls ill. As a reward, Geralt evokes the Law of Surprise, and the farmer carries Geralt back to his home on the back of his wagon, and as soon as they arrive, the scene takes place, where Geralt finds out that Ciri was alive and had been taken in by the farmer's family after escaping the siege.
If you read the books, you'd know what this scene means. After everything that had been done, finding Ciri in some forgotten corner of the world, alone and dead is a very, very heavy blow for Geralt. That's something he can't recover from
I first played the game back in 2017. It became my all time favorite and had never revisited it up until this summer, after I finished reading the books. With the books still fresh in my memory, knowing what Geralt meant to Ciri (and vise-versa), the pain they went through for each other over the years and the time they were apart after their last tragic encounter, this scene hit me like a freight train. I could see Geralt's life flash before his eyes, I could feel his despair. And the worst part? His denial. Geralt's denial is the single most gut-wrenching part of the scene. In the books it is mentioned multiple times that Geralt is able to easily hear heartbeats, breathing, sense the tiniest of movements around him, smell the faintest of smells due to his superhuman Witcher senses. The moment he opens the door he knows for a fact that this is Ciri and that she is dead. When he sits beside her he already knows, but he is in so much denial that for a split second he thinks that maybe he is mistaken. Maybe his Witcher senses are wrong after all, the same senses that helped him survive through the years and become one of the the greatest Witchers of all time. He wants to see her face to "make sure". And he turns her around only to realize that the only time that he wished for his Witcher senses to have betrayed him, they haven't. Absolute masterpiece of a scene.
this scene with this soundtrack is the best Video game moment of all time. watching this again and i cried like it was the first time. The flashback moment completly breaks me
Even though I knew she doesn't die, I sobbed horrifically for a good while after this scene, had to turn my switch off and just sit there, wrecked me completely
Played this game over a dozen times. As a father myself I still shed a tear. They did such a good job with this scene. The music. The animation. All real to me. Because it's how I'd feel if I saw my son or daughter like this.
@@alpercelep7701 red dead story is blunt and hoenstly you have to force your way hard to say it is better than a solid "ok" not even comparable to witcher story and art direction which is ltierally a masterpiece for gaming standarts..
Definitely one of the most memorable scenes in the game (it has many, the game is a masterpiece). If you like you can see the same scene in vastly improved visuals here in my modern remastering of this series: czcams.com/video/tJ5KMVNvA04/video.html
It’s my first time playing through the Witcher and I experienced this scene for the first time last night. Absolutely lost it. Even watching it again now, just crying my eyes out. Just watching geralt almost collapse and lose balance at the sight of her body, when he cradles her like his baby and his eyes when he realizes she isn’t gone. I’m an absolute wreck. Amazing scene.
Yeah gotta hate CDPR for breaking us and respect them for making grown men everywhere sob like a kid. A lot of thought we fucked up doing side quests and such. Man I thought I had killed my daughter due to me caring about the mages and whatnot.
completely agree, i periodically come back to this scene when i need a good cry and i can't think of any other video game scene that has that effect on me
Just passed this scene. 200 hours in. I was an absolute wreck and mess of tears followed by happiness and laughter. I was actually cheering. Well done CD Projekt Red.. Well fuckin done.
Seeing Geralt who spends all the game telling people he feels no emotion and being mocked for his lack of it break down so visibly hard made me bawl my eyes out first time I played this gem. Hell even now I still do
(English major in college) I have had 2 goosebumps moments in my life when experiencing next level storytelling for the first time. When I finished King Lear and when I played through this sequence. Mock it all you want that's the truth.
the way Geralt loses his balance the moment he sees her face, the way he rocks her lifeless body back and forth breaks my fucking heart every damn time
Definitely Atleast one of the most beautiful scenes i've seen in anything ever. And then the Music and the flashback, it's just overwhelming❤ I just love this game
i think times like this Geralt wished he was like the majority of his brothers who would just look at the lifeless Ciri and say "oh well" next contract next payday.
What wrenched at my heart was the fact he showed so much despair and grief, which is quite surprising for a witcher.. he’s seen way more brutal things but the amount of terror he showed when he thought she was dead broke my heart, cdpr really knows how to tug your heart the hardest at the right times…
I wept like a goddamn baby watching this scene for the first time. Geralt, whose mutations allow him to see a fully functioning nervous system and heartbeat already knew upon opening that door that she was dead. You could see the heartbreak in his eyes the second the door was open. He'd already been defeated before seeing her face, because he already knew she was gone.
This game was amazing for me. It's not the fact that Ciri die and live again that made me teared up, it's Geralt. Dude travelled all over the place to find his daughter, and we're there to witness every second of it. People cheated him, took advantage of him, tried to kill him along the way, but just when you're about to take one final step to meet her, someone told you by the door that she might be dead, can you imagine how terrifying that must've felt? It was his expression when he turned Ciri's body over to him that broke me, also his expression when he realized she's still alive. I'm telling you, I like this game a lot.
Everytime I watch this scene I can feel it all : losing your daughter, then have her back alive, hug her like the first time you met your destiny:her, and the relief like the world doesn't exist now she's safe and sound in your arms
My PC decided to have a random crash to desktop just when he was embracing Ciri. I pretty much wanted to throw my fucking computer out the window for ruining such an emotional moment!
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Zikade I am played this scene and the ligths touch ciri’s head and my pc crashed :( If this is a bug cdred fix it now
This scene alone is why I was opposed to Cyberpunk 2077 being first person perspective... could you imagine how flat this scene would be in first person, not being able to see Geralt's pain and anguish?
I’ve been playing games since the 80s and I’ll tell you this is the pinnacle of story telling in a game ...: I just can’t see it getting better than this .... so so emotional.... I love this game
@@matias-jc3ip The thing is that i skipped the dialoge before this clip, and therefore this clip got skipped as well. Still angry at myself. I use text on dialoge, so i sometimes read what they say before they say it, and skips the rest of the sentence because i've read what they will say. I can't be the only one doing this?
I'm a father of a beautiful 5 years girl. I couldn't help to think of her when watching this scene first time I got to this part of this incredible game. This moment was too much for our favorite witcher 😢. Thanks to the gods she wasn't dead.
The way Geralt cradles and weeps into what he thinks is the lifeless body of his daughter..holy shit. That’s fucking gut wrenching..I remember the first time I played this- I thought she was dead as well. I love this scene so much
Saw this in a buried comment: Geralt’s Witcher senses already told him Ciri had no breathing, pulse, or warmth; him opening the door and turning her body was basically a desperate wish that his years of razor sharp senses were wrong.
In 35 anni di videogiochi l'unica scena in cui ho pianto ed ora dopo anni l'ho rivista per la seconda volta ed ho pianto di nuovo. Quando l'ha trovata morta mi si è svuotata l'anima e quando si è risvegliata ho esultato di gioia. Non ci sono parole, solo emozioni.
This scene was probably the heaviest hitting in the entire game for me honestly so many emotions and played so well. Honestly it's one of my favorite scenes in the entire game and the only thing I think that could possibly make it better is if they just drew it out a bit more. Have geralt hold her body a bit longer maybe even seeing him cry out for the first time showing true genuine heartfelt loss. it would make the scene so much more impactful for the first time ever,we really get to see geralt break down see a whole new wave of emotions he's never shown before. Then maybe right when he's about to truly accept she's gone the orb comes in
I played Witcher 3 for the first time recently and when I got to this part, right after the dwarves told Geralt that Ciri was basically dead and he was standing in front of the door for a while thinking about going in, I accidentally double clicked the skip button on my controller and suddenly Ciri and Geralt were chatting by the campfire. I missed out on feeling this emotional scene by myself. Damn. I guess watching it on youtube is the closest thing I'll get
For a moment I thought I did something wrong again. I made alot of bad choices and it`s my first playthrough,I made the Baron commit suicide,killed Keira,etc. So seeing that she is alive at the end gave me so much relief.
Hahaha yeah I see you too assumed necromancy was a big no no on this game and not just taboo. I was sure she was evil due to Skyrim logic and such. Boy was I wrong about our little Lambert savior
Watching this scene with having read at least first 2 books hits different.... the moment when kid ciri reunites with Geralt after attack on Cintra is so emotional.
Goosebumps. I am simply in love with this scene and this game in general. My new favourite game. I don't get emotional with many games, but this is game is something special
Everything about this scene is perfect... the music, the environment sounds getting silent as soon as he opens the door, the shots, the slow rythm, slow walk, the expression on Geralt's face that shows that Ciri completes him, he cant have feelings because of his mutations yet for her his feelings show, and the positive outcome. Out of all the scenes from any video game, this one is in my opinion the most impactful on the player
When i got there myself in my first playtrough, i already knew what will happen, cause i got spoiled about it. But even though i knew, that Ciri wasnt really dead, i started crying. Somehow this moment is so powerfull and emotional. And here i sit again, after wathing it multiple times and still get teary eyes every fucking time.
I cry so much on this scene the books and game touch my soul. When I watch Netflix version Geralt and Ciri hug in season 1. Geralt: who the fuck are you 😂😂😂? Ciri: I'm your destiny Me: What??? 😂😂😂😂
As someone who watched the Witcher series before playing this game, I recognized the flashback immediately. Was pulling my heart with that music; will likely never experience a game like this ever again
This id the most beautyfull thing ever the music hits right in the heart and When Ciri wakes and Geralt remembers When they first met it’s so sad and full og joy at the same time best scene ever in a video game
"Witchers feel no emotions." While I believe it to an extent... This scene set how I chose to play Geralt on my 2nd playthrough. The intensity of emotion with absolutely no words... Well done CDPR
If you read the books and paid attention to the games, you'd know that "Witchers feel no emotion" is a myth Witchers propogated to make humans fear them. The mutation process of becoming a witcher does not strip their emotions.
I never seen a movie, and less a game having a scene so amazingly incredibile. Just for this moment, best ever game of all time, adding whole game is just amazing. Pure art pure genious
That look when Geralt feels Ciri's arms hug him back. Shock, Surprise, relief, happiness, that feel when for a second you just felt your heart stop beating. That one look says more than a thousand words could.
You can watch this scene (and the episode it's from) in greatly improved visuals, 60fps (1440p, 4k textures, reshade enhanced) here: czcams.com/video/tJ5KMVNvA04/video.html
thank you
Can we just appreciate how CDPR actually made us believe for a split second that she is _actually dead_ ?
They are the king of plot twists
F**K NO! Because even if I Knew the plot, I saw images of Adult Ciri in Kaer Morhen and a couple of gameplay before having the possibility of playing it myself, I knew that there are a lot of possible endings and a lot of possible action that may influence the plot and the final (some really not as obvious) and they had me in tears of terror because I thought that I made some mistakes or was too slow (Even if I don't have much time to play, I'm taking it slowly exploring and completing all the contracts and sidequest I find, not rushing through the main quest) to save her and possibly there was an unknown storyline where Geralt fails in saving Ciri.
And as a big fan of the Witcher Universe, I feel a strong affection for Geralt (which is a fictional character but I feel him really close to myself ) and of course for Ciri and felt heartbroken.
I hated them in that moment. NOBODY TOUCHES MY DAUGHTER.
Im didnt fall in trap CDPR trap because i dont believe anyone in this world
twice if you got the empress or witcher ending
@@f.passanisi calm down bro
Geralt's terror at what's behind that door is palpable.
I read a comment somewhere that made me appreciate this scene even more. Geralt has heightened senses so it is believable he can sense if a person is alive (hearing heartbeat, breathing,sensing movement of chest etc). I like to think that after the dwarves spoke about the ashen hair lads dead in the cabin his senses heightened a lot, he was already listening beyond the door and heard nothing. Opened the door and nothing, with every step he is realizing more and more that his senses are perfectly working as always, with every step he is realizing that his daughter isn't breathing, isn't moving, her heart isn't beating. When He moves her the last hope is vanished. How much should this few step must have cost him...
@@f.passanisi who cuts onions at 2 am damn
word choice: sensai
@@f.passanisi damn, played it 4 times, and never thought about it, nevertheless it always brought a tear to my eye. Now what you wrote makes this a more wholesome scene. Good job CDPR. Can be proud of my fellow countrymen. Though that twitching sword should be fixed.
If you can watch this scene without getting goosebumps or shedding a tear - you aren’t human.
when you take the place of geralt its worse!! in the door he knows (because he is a sorceler) the woman in the bed is dead (no heartbeat, no respiration...) he walk in to verify the face, his daugther extended on the couch?? he return her : the shock, heartbreaken, cant touch her more, have to breath, have to sit, to not collaspe, he cant shred a tear, take her in his arm for a last embrace, a goodbye, a farewell... and she re-live... this cutscene is so strong, theyre was rain in my room that day!
Definitely damn shit hit me hard >;(
Aye ,I’m a Witcher
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geralt breaking into tears on that bed is so powerful. mutated, emotionless killer crying over his daughter's lifeless body. beautifully done scene
Emotionless? Nope myth
The way he gently rocks back and forth with her body in his arms breaks my fucking heart
Geralt wants to think he’s emotionless and cold hearted and it’s just simply not true lmao
so intense. such great music during this scene
Damn the first time I reached this moment I nearly lost it. For a second I thought I did something wrong, maybe a bad choice, or even worse, CDPR pulled a swerve on us and Geralt failed to reach her in time/was dead all along. My relief and happiness were immense when she woke up
I was gonna start the entire game over to get a better ending when I first saw this cutscenes I was heartbroken
@@calebwright1052 same broo, I didn't felt right for 5 days when I got this shit
Same. I assumed the game wanted me to take my time collecting stuff, upgrading and helping the world.
Then this fucking scene hit me and it broke me for the same reasons as you. Fuck I thought I had fucked up in the worst possible way by helping the world instead of my daughter.
But seeing Geralts face when she woke up perfectly captured most our own faces. So much still filled with pain (since pain don't go away in a split second) yet seeing the smidge of happiness upon feeling a hand you didn't expect.
Fuck this scene was both cruel and beautiful to us the player.
CD projekt red you have both my respect and utter distain for forcing me through that!
@@TheOlondo Yeah me too, speciale because game asked me to save manually few moments before this. I was hearbroken when dwarves told Gerald, she was already dead. God damn you CDPR :D
the goosebumps... the fear I didn't make it because of my choices...
This is so well made. Every other aspect and plot point of the game falls away in this moment. Geralt isn't a Witcher and Ciri isn't a princess, or the Lady of Space and Time. This is a father finding his daughter, thinking her dead, and grieving for her. His body movements and expressions are captured beautifully, how he hesitates to enter, his slow measured steps, how he rocks Ciri back and forth in his arms like she's a baby. He doesn't want to believe it. It really connects you with the characters. This game is such a work of art.
Aw man I was already crying and your comment made me cry even more ❤
Who's cutting onions in my damn house?
Onion ninja
Still my favorite cutscene of any game ever
Same with Shadya scene in AC Origins, so powerful.
Last of us ending scene is up there
@@parapaya3261the last of heteros? Lol
It’s unfortunate that you cut out the dialogue before this where they tell Geralt the woman inside is dead. THAT really sets the tone and explains geralts hesitation and reluctance to go inside and eventually why he breaks down.
That door was the hardest boss Geralt had ever faced.
Geralt cradling her like a babe reminds me of my mother's words whenever I complained about her pampering me at 26 years old: "Doesn't matter how old you are, you will always be my little boy"
“You've finally found me! Oh, Geralt! I waited all this time! Yes, a terribly long time... We'll stay together now, won't we? Now we'll be together, right? Say it, Geralt! Forever! Say it!”
“Forever, Ciri.”
“Yes, just like they said! Geralt! Like they said... I'm your destiny? Say it! I'm your destiny?”
“You're something more, Ciri. Something more.” - Sword of Destiny.
it s so epic when u see that foreigners read the books
@@LessbetterJoe Meanwhile on Netflix: WHo iS YeNNeFer?
@@ogeraldo1388 yen is as important as geralt. But yeah netflix witcher sucks in general for book and game lovers. Just normies liked that shit
@@LessbetterJoe the books are amazing. Wish there were more
@@emperman personally I like the Netflix's attempt, nothing wrong with it...
Man! Just watched this after 5 years. Goosebumps? Check. Tears? Check.
Happiness? Check!!!
I just beat the main quest today for the first time, and that scene was the best cut scene in the game
There are so. many. layers.
First, Geralt's witcher mutations and training blunted his emotions. He's killed, and seen killed, so many humans and creatures. He's seen more corpses than he can possibly remember. Killing is his life.
Geralt spends years looking for Ciri. And upon seeing her unblemished "corpse," the humanity that remains in him, all his love, all his hate, everything, surfaces and overwhelms him. All those dead, all that training, nothing could totally extinguish his capacity for love, and by extension, the capacity to feel total loss, the inconsolable grief at the sight of her.
Ciri begins to awaken. The flashback is presumably to some training sequence that ended with them finding one another. A young, gawky adolescent Ciri, sees what is basically her father, and runs to his embrace; the mature Ciri knows its feeling without having to look. He's found her, and she's returned to herself.
The most emotional scene in the game, and the hardest a video game scene has ever hit me.
I don't even have a child, and when I watched this, I cried like she was mine.
The blunted emotions aspect, as addressed in books and even in the game, is a myth generated and even propogated by witchers themselves to make them feared by humans. That said, most witchers do often end up with dulled emotions because of the horrors they witness constantly and it is a defense mechanism against it. But their mutations don't actually remove emotion, it was simply a myth spread throughout the ages (one that Witchers embraced and spread as well as it ultimately served to be useful)
@@Hathur I stand corrected as to that piece. Still, an unbelievably moving scene.
Add that it was Ciri guiding Geralt all the way from when Avallach was restored. It was his guiding light.
I think that flashback is their first encounter. It looks very similar to that scene from the Netflix show at least
@@Kaplykos You're correct, but not entirely. Netflix did not present the scene as it was originally written.
It takes place some time after the siege of Cintra, during the 2nd great invasion of the North by Nilfgaard, 7 months to be precise. Geralt first meets Ciri in the Brokilon forest, but they depart, and Ciri goes back to Cintra and Calanthe, escorted by Mousesack. While travelling, Geralt comes across a man being attacked by nekkers at a bridge, and while helping him, he is wounded in the leg, and falls ill. As a reward, Geralt evokes the Law of Surprise, and the farmer carries Geralt back to his home on the back of his wagon, and as soon as they arrive, the scene takes place, where Geralt finds out that Ciri was alive and had been taken in by the farmer's family after escaping the siege.
If you read the books, you'd know what this scene means. After everything that had been done, finding Ciri in some forgotten corner of the world, alone and dead is a very, very heavy blow for Geralt. That's something he can't recover from
I do not regret shedding manly tears at this scene. Absolutely worth it.
Definitely the most powerfull scene in the whole series for me. This game is a Masterpiece
I first played the game back in 2017. It became my all time favorite and had never revisited it up until this summer, after I finished reading the books.
With the books still fresh in my memory, knowing what Geralt meant to Ciri (and vise-versa), the pain they went through for each other over the years and the time they were apart after their last tragic encounter, this scene hit me like a freight train. I could see Geralt's life flash before his eyes, I could feel his despair. And the worst part? His denial.
Geralt's denial is the single most gut-wrenching part of the scene. In the books it is mentioned multiple times that Geralt is able to easily hear heartbeats, breathing, sense the tiniest of movements around him, smell the faintest of smells due to his superhuman Witcher senses.
The moment he opens the door he knows for a fact that this is Ciri and that she is dead. When he sits beside her he already knows, but he is in so much denial that for a split second he thinks that maybe he is mistaken. Maybe his Witcher senses are wrong after all, the same senses that helped him survive through the years and become one of the the greatest Witchers of all time. He wants to see her face to "make sure".
And he turns her around only to realize that the only time that he wished for his Witcher senses to have betrayed him, they haven't.
Absolute masterpiece of a scene.
nobody talks about this perfect music
When a story can bring you to the edge of tears even when you know everything is going to he okay, that s good writing.
For as long as I live, I will never forget this scene.
Not much shakes Geralt. Seeing his knees wobble a little when he turns Ciri over is emotional every time.
this scene with this soundtrack is the best Video game moment of all time. watching this again and i cried like it was the first time. The flashback moment completly breaks me
Even though I knew she doesn't die, I sobbed horrifically for a good while after this scene, had to turn my switch off and just sit there, wrecked me completely
Played this game over a dozen times. As a father myself I still shed a tear. They did such a good job with this scene. The music. The animation. All real to me. Because it's how I'd feel if I saw my son or daughter like this.
No-one can tell me this isn't the greatest video game of all time...
Not the greatest, but it is one of the greater games in its time.
its one of the greatest games of all time for sure but I think Red Dead Redemption II is much better than Witcher 3
@@alpercelep7701 I’ve played both and loved both of them but red dead just hits the spot.
@@alpercelep7701 red dead story is blunt and hoenstly you have to force your way hard to say it is better than a solid "ok" not even comparable to witcher story and art direction which is ltierally a masterpiece for gaming standarts..
@@idontlikewind.554 Rdr2 Is amazing but Witcher 3 Is a goddamn masterpiece
"I'm a Witcher. I don't have emotions."
Sir that is a lie
As one of the original novels point out, it's a myth perpetrated by Witchers themselves to make people fear them.
True! But Geralt also has a habit of using it as an excuse and a shield to hide behind. Triss chewed him out for it once.
My God who animated this?! Geralt's face is more human when he thinks she's dead is more intense than most humans! Just pure art! Masterpiece!
Definitely one of the most memorable scenes in the game (it has many, the game is a masterpiece). If you like you can see the same scene in vastly improved visuals here in my modern remastering of this series: czcams.com/video/tJ5KMVNvA04/video.html
I cried in this scene, twice.
- Ciri, what do witchers say to the god of death?
- Not today.
Considering her father's voiced by Charles Dance, big pp
It’s my first time playing through the Witcher and I experienced this scene for the first time last night. Absolutely lost it.
Even watching it again now, just crying my eyes out. Just watching geralt almost collapse and lose balance at the sight of her body, when he cradles her like his baby and his eyes when he realizes she isn’t gone. I’m an absolute wreck. Amazing scene.
Yeah gotta hate CDPR for breaking us and respect them for making grown men everywhere sob like a kid.
A lot of thought we fucked up doing side quests and such.
Man I thought I had killed my daughter due to me caring about the mages and whatnot.
It hits harder knowing Geralts witcher senses knew there was no life behind that door before he even opened it.
completely agree, i periodically come back to this scene when i need a good cry
and i can't think of any other video game scene that has that effect on me
where REal man Cried
Just passed this scene. 200 hours in. I was an absolute wreck and mess of tears followed by happiness and laughter. I was actually cheering. Well done CD Projekt Red.. Well fuckin done.
You must’ve done everything else to take 200 hours to get here lol
Seeing Geralt who spends all the game telling people he feels no emotion and being mocked for his lack of it break down so visibly hard made me bawl my eyes out first time I played this gem.
Hell even now I still do
(English major in college) I have had 2 goosebumps moments in my life when experiencing next level storytelling for the first time. When I finished King Lear and when I played through this sequence.
Mock it all you want that's the truth.
It’s definitely true, the Witcher 3 is the pinnacle of storytelling in gaming
One of my favorite moments out of many in the game. Truly amazing with the music too.
the way Geralt loses his balance the moment he sees her face, the way he rocks her lifeless body back and forth breaks my fucking heart every damn time
Definitely Atleast one of the most beautiful scenes i've seen in anything ever.
And then the Music and the flashback, it's just overwhelming❤
I just love this game
i think times like this Geralt wished he was like the majority of his brothers
who would just look at the lifeless Ciri and say "oh well" next contract next payday.
None of his brothers are like that tho
What wrenched at my heart was the fact he showed so much despair and grief, which is quite surprising for a witcher.. he’s seen way more brutal things but the amount of terror he showed when he thought she was dead broke my heart, cdpr really knows how to tug your heart the hardest at the right times…
I wept like a goddamn baby watching this scene for the first time. Geralt, whose mutations allow him to see a fully functioning nervous system and heartbeat already knew upon opening that door that she was dead. You could see the heartbreak in his eyes the second the door was open. He'd already been defeated before seeing her face, because he already knew she was gone.
This game was amazing for me.
It's not the fact that Ciri die and live again that made me teared up, it's Geralt.
Dude travelled all over the place to find his daughter, and we're there to witness every second of it.
People cheated him, took advantage of him, tried to kill him along the way, but just when you're about to take one final step to meet her, someone told you by the door that she might be dead, can you imagine how terrifying that must've felt?
It was his expression when he turned Ciri's body over to him that broke me, also his expression when he realized she's still alive.
I'm telling you, I like this game a lot.
I'm not crying, you are...
For a Witcher you wouldn’t expect Geralt to display such grief
Everytime I watch this scene I can feel it all : losing your daughter, then have her back alive, hug her like the first time you met your destiny:her, and the relief like the world doesn't exist now she's safe and sound in your arms
My PC decided to have a random crash to desktop just when he was embracing Ciri. I pretty much wanted to throw my fucking computer out the window for ruining such an emotional moment!
Zikade I am played this scene and the ligths touch ciri’s head and my pc crashed :( If this is a bug cdred fix it now
It was crying too, give it a break
When her hand reaches around him... damn. In that moment you entire journey flashes into memory.
No voices or dialogues needed
Just *raw freaking emotions*
This scene alone is why I was opposed to Cyberpunk 2077 being first person perspective... could you imagine how flat this scene would be in first person, not being able to see Geralt's pain and anguish?
Just the score is enough to give me goosebumps and tear me up. Just beautiful.
I’ve been playing games since the 80s and I’ll tell you this is the pinnacle of story telling in a game ...: I just can’t see it getting better than this .... so so emotional.... I love this game
I still can't get over I pressed square on this fucking masterpiece.
Same I was so fucking pissed at myself for doing that
Why do you even skip dumb dumbs
@@matias-jc3ip dialoge is boring sometimes.
@@solmesteren and it looks like we have got our selvs a new gen gamer
@@matias-jc3ip The thing is that i skipped the dialoge before this clip, and therefore this clip got skipped as well. Still angry at myself.
I use text on dialoge, so i sometimes read what they say before they say it, and skips the rest of the sentence because i've read what they will say. I can't be the only one doing this?
One of the best games of all time for sure
Yes... So pure, so intense moment
I already shed tears when I type this into the search bar
The greatest cut scene in the history of gaming
After playing the game and this scene comes, it underlines how great the game is and how much heart it has been made. A true classic.
I'm a father of a beautiful 5 years girl. I couldn't help to think of her when watching this scene first time I got to this part of this incredible game. This moment was too much for our favorite witcher 😢. Thanks to the gods she wasn't dead.
Finished the game 2 years ago but this scene still gives me goosebumps
The way Geralt cradles and weeps into what he thinks is the lifeless body of his daughter..holy shit. That’s fucking gut wrenching..I remember the first time I played this- I thought she was dead as well. I love this scene so much
This scene hit me far harder than I expected. Truly a masterpiece of animation and story telling.
When I first played the game and watched this scene I got so sad and felt defeated and I said, "no, I did too many damn sidequests"
I cried here this is so well done :(
You can feel the pain of a father in this scene.
Saw this in a buried comment:
Geralt’s Witcher senses already told him Ciri had no breathing, pulse, or warmth; him opening the door and turning her body was basically a desperate wish that his years of razor sharp senses were wrong.
Somewhere between Geralt saving Ciri and Joel saving Ellie, all of us experienced wht it means to have a daughter!.
On of the best moments in video games history
I cant describe in words how i love this piece of art
the way he rocks her while he's holding her absolutely broke me the first time i played it, and it still does :(
In 35 anni di videogiochi l'unica scena in cui ho pianto ed ora dopo anni l'ho rivista per la seconda volta ed ho pianto di nuovo. Quando l'ha trovata morta mi si è svuotata l'anima e quando si è risvegliata ho esultato di gioia. Non ci sono parole, solo emozioni.
This scene was probably the heaviest hitting in the entire game for me honestly so many emotions and played so well. Honestly it's one of my favorite scenes in the entire game and the only thing I think that could possibly make it better is if they just drew it out a bit more.
Have geralt hold her body a bit longer maybe even seeing him cry out for the first time showing true genuine heartfelt loss. it would make the scene so much more impactful for the first time ever,we really get to see geralt break down see a whole new wave of emotions he's never shown before.
Then maybe right when he's about to truly accept she's gone the orb comes in
The moment when he starts cradling her body....pain
I played Witcher 3 for the first time recently and when I got to this part, right after the dwarves told Geralt that Ciri was basically dead and he was standing in front of the door for a while thinking about going in, I accidentally double clicked the skip button on my controller and suddenly Ciri and Geralt were chatting by the campfire. I missed out on feeling this emotional scene by myself.
Damn.
I guess watching it on youtube is the closest thing I'll get
For a moment I thought I did something wrong again. I made alot of bad choices and it`s my first playthrough,I made the Baron commit suicide,killed Keira,etc. So seeing that she is alive at the end gave me so much relief.
Hahaha yeah I see you too assumed necromancy was a big no no on this game and not just taboo.
I was sure she was evil due to Skyrim logic and such.
Boy was I wrong about our little Lambert savior
Once I see that moment in Witcher 3 I start crying and I don’t know 😭
Watching this scene with having read at least first 2 books hits different.... the moment when kid ciri reunites with Geralt after attack on Cintra is so emotional.
Goosebumps. I am simply in love with this scene and this game in general.
My new favourite game.
I don't get emotional with many games, but this is game is something special
thank you for letting me relive this experience without putting in 40 hours of game play. But aw sh!t, here we go again with the new HD update
Who came here like me to recall this moment after watching netflix series where Geralt first meets Ciri? ❤
Geralts only daughter that he fought to get to his only beloved daughter
if you want to shed a tear for the 1000th time and you dont know how just come back here every time. the only tear inducing moment i have
Geralt, the great white wolf, slayer of monster and men. So afraid to open that door......
Everything about this scene is perfect... the music, the environment sounds getting silent as soon as he opens the door, the shots, the slow rythm, slow walk, the expression on Geralt's face that shows that Ciri completes him, he cant have feelings because of his mutations yet for her his feelings show, and the positive outcome. Out of all the scenes from any video game, this one is in my opinion the most impactful on the player
When i got there myself in my first playtrough, i already knew what will happen, cause i got spoiled about it. But even though i knew, that Ciri wasnt really dead, i started crying. Somehow this moment is so powerfull and emotional. And here i sit again, after wathing it multiple times and still get teary eyes every fucking time.
so i came back to see if i still cried at that scene and sure enough it still works like a charm.
I love everything about this scene so much
I cry so much on this scene the books and game touch my soul.
When I watch Netflix version Geralt and Ciri hug in season 1.
Geralt: who the fuck are you 😂😂😂?
Ciri: I'm your destiny
Me: What??? 😂😂😂😂
As someone who watched the Witcher series before playing this game, I recognized the flashback immediately. Was pulling my heart with that music; will likely never experience a game like this ever again
Great scene, great video, great music, great characters, great game, great everything
In my opinnion the best scene in a Video game of all time.
At last he found her, her destin lil girl. And she was alive not dead.
This id the most beautyfull thing ever the music hits right in the heart and When Ciri wakes and Geralt remembers When they first met it’s so sad and full og joy at the same time best scene ever in a video game
Yeah.. this game is really GOAT
"Witchers feel no emotions." While I believe it to an extent... This scene set how I chose to play Geralt on my 2nd playthrough. The intensity of emotion with absolutely no words... Well done CDPR
If you read the books and paid attention to the games, you'd know that "Witchers feel no emotion" is a myth Witchers propogated to make humans fear them. The mutation process of becoming a witcher does not strip their emotions.
I don't even know whats going on....
Just watching randomly ....
Still got goosebumps!
I never seen a movie, and less a game having a scene so amazingly incredibile. Just for this moment, best ever game of all time, adding whole game is just amazing. Pure art pure genious
That look when Geralt feels Ciri's arms hug him back.
Shock, Surprise, relief, happiness, that feel when for a second you just felt your heart stop beating.
That one look says more than a thousand words could.
i cry to this every couple of months
i remember skipping this scene by accident because i wanted to skip Geralt opening the door
Saddest scene ever. I'm late to play this game and this scene made me tear up. I didn't know what to expect.