The Witcher : Le Cauchemar du Loup

New monsters are rising in the woods after Witchers had mostly cleared them. Vesemir is a Witcher for hire. Accusation arises that Witchers are the ones creating the monsters as a scheme to rebuild their work for hire.

This is an animated prequel expansion of the world of The Witcher series. It's a good story. The characters are compelling. The old school animation is alright. The Korean studio does a lot of American TV work and it has a good handle on it. This is well made.

Among so many problems that the Live Action series starring Henry Cavill had and whose biggest criticism is not respecting the spirit of the literary saga and video games, this version appears that perfectly fulfills that.

It is a film that covers a period of time in the chronology of the saga that is somewhat dark due to lack of information.

The story focused on Vesemir is a success from any angle, giving us a context that we did not know we needed.

The plot is solid, the animation is quite good and really for fans of the saga I think it is a great success.

The release of a second film in 2025 only reinforces these concepts. Unfortunately, I think this is the most correct direction to take since season 4 and 5 of The Witcher with the change of actor in the leading role makes us glimpse a resounding failure.

It's honestly pretty good, but Netflix is rewriting some of the witcher lore and as a long time game and book fan it's just kinda sad.

Sick action, Great animation, Entertaining, Great Soundtrack, And Interesting Characters but weren't fleshed out enough, in fact it felt like there were big gaps in between the story and the story was not fleshed out nearly as much as it should have been which is why this would have worked a lot better as a series, they pretty much crammed an entire season into one movie, which took away the impact from a lot of the scenes and the story in general. Overall enjoyable and entertaining but could have been better.

Honestly I really liked the animation, soundtrack and fight scenes, but thats kinda it. I hated the ending and final plot twist, because it completely rewrites a really important plot point in the Witcher universe. If it was made somewhat well, I would be okay with that, but the way the writers did that was just bad. Story is kinda meh, and Vesemir is fun character, until you remember its Vesemir, so another rewrite. Some people coplain about diversity, honestly I did not care about that. Some parts of the story felt without any pay of. If this was made with a completely unknown witcher and completely different school of witchers, or be a completly different universe it would be 8, but the heavy disrespect to the most important parts of the lore really bumed me out.