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We saw The Witcher 3 – Songs of the Past in action, and the full-game remaster that's coming this year too
Just when he thought he was out, Songs of the Past pulls Geralt back in.
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This is a shorter version of an exclusive Witcher 3 – Songs of the Past cover feature that will go out in the next issue of PC Gamer magazine. Keep your eyes peeled!
Surprise! Songs of the Past, The Witcher 3's third expansion, isn't kicked off by some Ciri-centric weft in the space-time continuum, nor another curt and urgent letter from Yennefer. As for Triss, well, I didn't spot a single red hair of her in the hands-off demo that CD Projekt Red and Fool's Theory gave us.
It's Dandelion. Geralt's lute-plucking biographer has gone missing, and who better to find him than his best pal in the whole wide world? So when Songs of the Past releases next year, he'll be back on the path in a region of The Witcher's world we've never seen before—Dandelion's family home of Letten, in the kingdom of Redania.
And he's got another surprise for you, too: a full Witcher 3 remaster that aims to make the 2015 classic feel like it released in the modern era, due for release on September 29.
Over a decade since The Witcher 3's last expansion, the boys are back in town.
Where better to get a glimpse of Dandelion's true face than his family home? Dandelion's real name is Julian Alfred Pankratz, Viscount de Lettenhove, and it's to Lettenhove he invites Geralt for Songs of the Past's opening—to the sumptuous manor that marks the seat of power for his blue-blood forebears.
To hear the devs tell it, this is a Dandelion-centric expansion all the way through: the focus is on Geralt and the bard's relationship—their "bromance," as multiple people I spoke to put it—and not so much on, oh I don't know, Ciri, for example.
"[Letten is] a completely new region in northern Redania, where Dandelion comes from," says Karolina Kuzia, Songs of the Past's vision director. "We visit because of personal matters that put a toll on him, so he needs his best friend at his side. Imagine you enter a lush green valley, hidden in a mountain range."