The Blood of Dawnwalker has no main quest, apparently, and now I'm a lot more interested in playing it

"We privation to bring video games person to pen-and-paper RPGs"

I'll beryllium honorable with you folks, arsenic alert arsenic I person been astir The Blood of Dawnwalker, i.e. Not The Witcher 3 from immoderate of the folks who helped marque The Witcher 3, I person felt precise disinterested successful it. Sure, that caller look astatine gameplay surely paints a polished astatine minimum picture, but astatine a cursory glimpse I person to admit I did conscionable benignant of constitute it disconnected arsenic vampire Witcher. Except I've present been rather rapidly pulled successful acknowledgment to an important constituent of the crippled shared by its manager successful a caller interview: there's nary main quest.

This comes from Eurogamer, who spoke with crippled manager (and Witcher 3 co-director) Konrad Tomaskiewicz astir this precise fact. After clarifying that "no, there's nary main quest" successful The Blood of Dawnwalker, Tomaskiewicz explained, "You physique your acquisition from the quests you encounter. You cognize wherever your [enemy is]. You tin onslaught this spot anytime you privation to. It's up to you if you privation to bash it by yourself, oregon if you privation to physique yourself, find the almighty items, make your character, oregon bash immoderate quests and find allies to assistance you bash it."

Here's a enactment that I similar successful peculiar from Tomaskiewicz: "We privation to bring video games person to pen-and-paper RPGs and springiness you the state to acquisition what you privation to experience." RPGs arsenic a genre is rather evidently popular, but a bulk of them are yet rather constrictive successful what you tin really do. There's limits successful the satellite of video games! Understandable limits, but I'm ever funny to spot however idiosyncratic mightiness effort to interruption them.

This quality to effort to execute your extremity isn't precisely a caller happening technically, aboriginal connected Tomaskiewicz compares it to Fallout: "Our crippled is much akin successful this country to the aged Fallout, the archetypal and 2nd [games], wherever you person a wide extremity and everything is optional - you decide. You question the world, you determine what you privation to do. There is nary main quest."

Not to notation the information that The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild lets you question retired the last brag astir close from the start. However, Fallout is evidently rather an oldschool RPG by now, and Breath of the Wild sits successful a weird spot genre-wise, positive it does person a main story, truthful I'm keen connected seeing however Blood of Dawnwalker tackles specified a structure.

The Blood of Dawnwalker is owed for merchandise sometime successful 2026.