[GODzilla]

I think there is another possible interpretation of that scene:

As you know, normally there are no deers or other normal animals in the forest. Yet in the scene we can seem them. Why?

Cedric is old, very old. Maybe the forest once had normal wildlife, but then it was whipped out both by the more agressive animals and by the human settlers.

Thus, in this scene, we see the forest through Cedric's eyes, looking into a past only he can remember.

Just saying...

[Babli]

When I played pre-EE W2 for first time, I actually thought during that scene, that they forgot to add animals here. I thought that if EE will add animals in village and towns, that they will add animals also in this scene. And I was right after all.

Hunter´s funeral is pretty common and old motif here in Central/Eastern Europe (maybe elsewhere too, but I dont live elsewhere so I dont know). It has nothing to do with Disney since it is much older as was pointed out. To me it added more emotions.

And if you find it too "fairy-taleish" then you should remember that Sapkwoski was never afraid to put something fairy-taly in his stories. And dont forget how love cured Vincent in W1. That is fairy-tale by the book as Geralt pointed out. Fairy-tales have place in Witcher universe too.

[slimgrin]

GODzilla said:

I think there is another possible interpretation of that scene:

As you know, normally there are no deers or other normal animals in the forest. Yet in the scene we can seem them. Why?

Cedric is old, very old. Maybe the forest once had normal wildlife, but then it was whipped out both by the more agressive animals and by the human settlers.

Thus, in this scene, we see the forest through Cedric's eyes, looking into a past only he can remember.

Just saying... ›››

But the the way the scene cuts, it's Geralt we last see before panning to the forest, which means it's his POV, not Cedric's. Either way, it seems most people are ok with the scene. I'm just gonna go back in time and assassinate Walt Disney.

[Guy N'wah]

I must be missing something: what about the scene has anything at all to do with Disney?

Bambi is a masterpiece of children's literature. The fact that Disney appropriated it, neutered the poor deer, and made a cutesy-poo cartoon of it is meaningless.

The Hunter's Funeral is, as Babli rightly pointed out, a motif deeply ingrained in Central European foklore. It stands as a legitimate interpretation of the scene without any justifying comments from developers.

[Zamboni]

When I saw the scene I thought it was a nice homage to Princess Mononoke and the "forest god" (at least i think it's from that film, the ghostly deer).

[ThorinO]

VictorHarder said:

I really prefered the pre-EE "Death-of-Cedric"-cutscene because it didn't have those silly animals. When Cedric said something like "I feel a presence" and Geralt wasn't able to see anything in the forest I got the impression that it was the spirits of the forest or something like that who came to bid him farewell, but in the EE version there's just a bunch of silly animals, and even though you can argue that the spirits might be there as well, I just really prefered the invisible watchers saying farewell to Cedric rather than Bambi and his crew doing it

Another thing regarding animals. The quest where Geralt gets hammered with the Blue Stripes and wakes up semi-naked in the mud ... why were there no pigs there? Would have been awesome if he was awakened by a pig about to eat him or taking a dump on him or something like that ›››

I must admit. The pig idea was one of the best I have ever heard on these forums.