If you need proof The Witcher 3's new expansion is in safe hands, its lead writer literally wrote her thesis on Hearts of Stone: 'To probably prove to some of my professors that games are worthy'

If you need evidence that the team behind The Witcher 3's upcoming expansion, Songs of the Past, is composed of Bonafide Witcher Sickos, try this: the expansion's lead writer wrote her bachelor's thesis on Hearts of Stone almost a decade ago.

Fool's Theory's Paula Mejsner took a comparative literature scalpel to The Witcher 3's first expansion in her 2017 thesis—long before she got to work on the game itself—titled (in English) "Videogames as a way of experiencing literature: Analysis of the 'Hearts of Stone', a DLC to 'The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt'".

When I sat down to chat with her about her work on Songs of the Past, I had to do something that I'd never forgive someone else for doing to me: I asked her about it.

"That was at the time when I played Hearts of Stone, and The Witcher, and I was studying comparative literature. That's when I fell in love with The Witcher… [the thesis] touches upon what I said when it comes to how rich The Witcher is, when it c...