5 hours I think, but it will not be five hours on one chapter, if I'm right, will be divided flashbacks, joining all of them will give five hours, that's what I understood. I hope more abilities to her, since they promised that parts of her will focus more on action.
Nope, 5 hours is just the minimum required to complete the main storyline. There is another 5 hours of optional Ciri segments. I can't remember which interview this is from though.
Maaan, I pity all of you who must play the game in English
There is something truly great about playing the game in its native language. There are so many things in the Witcher that simply cannot be translated well into any non-Slavic language. Anyhow.
My 2nd playthrough will definitely be Polish VO+sub. Fellow Slav here, years ago it took me like a week of spending time with polish students in high school to understand perfectly.
Not sure about tW2 and tW3 being that incompatible with other languages, these games were and are meant to be accessible to everyone world-wide after all but Sapkowski's short story collections for example are so full of archaic culturally-based idioms and colloquialisms that I imagine translating them to english must have been a nightmare and it turned out to be a watered down shadow of the original anyway.