Sorry, but Tris is boring and there is nothing interesting, in my opinion, about the Witcher characters.
Only if you judged them based on their appearance and sexual appeal and missed all of their meaningful interactions with the world. Triss is an old friend of Geralt and a member of the Lodge of Sorceresses. The conflict between her loyalty to an ideal, her conviction to protect the sovereignty of the Lodge and her infatuation with the Witcher makes Triss rather unpredictable at times. Every move they both made in pursue of the answer is morally gray and any "right choice" the player chose might simply be moving a pawn from one corner to another in a political chessboard. But I guess you missed all this.
This reaction reminds me of people who at the first sight of naked female on a bed think an adaption of Shakespeare must be porn. While other people who actually read and understand the lore of the Witcher series know that their characters have the same level of depth as ones of fantasy literature. The only game I've played that could come close in characters building and story telling is probably some late 90s interactive visual novel like Planescape Torment. I would still consider this classic inferior to TW3 simply because it tried too hard to push the anti-Tolkien tropes and lacked the interplay between political intrigue with mysticism that the Witcher novels and games excel at (for those who actually understand the story of these games anyway, not those who just *click click* to kill monsters and *click click* to see tits)
I can understand how the feminists or lgbt crowd, who are triggered by sexualization of females in any way, truly hated this game, because they actually have to roleplay a character from literature, and all his qualities became boring because for them the only interesting character is the one they could identify with. Trust me, with this view you wouldn't be able to appreciate a vast majority of human's creative works, aside from some very genre specific videogame like waifu simulator.
Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? - Winnie the Pooh
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