Review of The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021) by Mattacrator — 23 Aug 2021

It has all the witcher stuff that we (I) love the most. The non-black-and-white world that boasts imperfect characters - the "good" guys who don't always do the best things and who also screw up. The "bad" guys who want to do good and believe they do. The various issues troubling the society, both masses and minorities. A beautiful love story. Amazing combat - anime style, not faithful to the books (but it's fine). A fair, fair portion of lore in it's own adaptation. It's a really great (shonen, I believe?) anime and holding true to that, it changes some things up in the source material. It's definitely to be taken with a grain of salt. But it has managed to pack a lot of good stuff in the short 1.5 hours that it lasts.

I suggest keeping an open mind and taking the movie for what it is - a Witcher inspired anime that offers great story, characters, additional backstory and some stunning visuals. I'm also not stating that what was shown that doesn't contradict the books is now to be considered canon, just like other Netflix and CDPR productions it has it's own story and it's up to each of us to treat it as we like. But it was cool and interesting nevertheless.

I give the movie a really strong 9/10. After the books and then games, it's my 3rd favourite installment in The Witcher universe.