Have people criticized Gone Home because you can only play as Kaitlin?
Have people criticized Portal because you can only play as Chell?
No. Because that would be silly.
But TW3 is an open-world game, and we have different expectations for open-world games where you can traverse continents and meet hundreds of sentients.
I love watching Geralt, I love his deadpan dadjokes, so I don’t know if I’d want to play a different character. But the design choice to force the point-of-view of the PC combined with the forced whiteness of all NPCs merits discussion.
