CD Projekt Red tried to redesign Geralt's face once, and it backfired horribly

Geralt, the hero of The Witcher series of games, nearly had a considerably different face. He actually did, briefly, but the game’s community disliked it so much CD Projekt Red panicked and changed it back.

The problem? Anatomical correctness. The community didn’t think Geralt was alien-looking or ugly enough.

The year was 2010 and CD Projekt Red was ready to debut its brand new Witcher game, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, to the world. A couple of leaked videos preceded the formal announcement but when a clutch of screenshots was eventually released, it debuted a different looking Geralt to the one people were used to from The Witcher 1.

Whereas Geralt had previously had the proportions of a triangle, roughly, which angled to a point on his nose and didn’t seem to involve a chin of any kind, he now had much easier-on-the-eye proportions and looked like an actual person. He was even, dare I say it, handsome. It simply wouldn’t do.