While reading the books it was possible to feel that atmosphere is different from western fantasy which made this series somewhat special as there is almost no other known fantasy based on Slavic folk motives and myths. CD Project Red managed to pass this atmosphere quite well. But Netflix... Netflix has just butchered it in cold blood. I understand that people that has little knowledge about source material or just western viewers in generally might not notice everything, but for me and my local friends it was painful to watch. At first this series gets you involved, but then all the wokeness power kicks in aka some main plot characters as well as random elves (!) beinng black/arabic/indian due to some unknown reason. Ruins the atmosphere and makes the immersion into that world completely impossible.

Other aspects might be good, but heavy "western" influence overshadows them for me as well as for many of my friends who are usually fans of good fantasy.Slavic fantasy butchered