This took fuccen forever for me to clear, and I started playing during the 2.0 update, starting Phantom Liberty on 2.1
It's important for me to say this: The game should not have been released in 2020 on the state that it was. Not only it wasn't fully optimized but core gameplay and balancing was way too undercooked. While I'm used to glitches, some of these were severely game-breaking or made it necessary for me to reload saves.
As of 2.1, I haven't noticed glitches that made the game unplayable, but every now and then some of the bosses do go "stuck" for no apparent reason. Thankfully since most of these bosses have phases to them, they usually fix themselves pretty quickly.
As for the game's story, I'll still say that it's one of the strongest stories I've ever had the pleasure to go through. It takes the genre and it throws on your face the fact that it's a dark future and rarely things will be completely positive. I love the characters and I honestly find V to be a very funny character, all considered.
Picking Keanu to play rockerboy Johnny Silverhand is also an interesting thing. I find it funny when people say they can't see Reeves as a rockstar (even though one of his most known roles is playing a rocker teenager in Bill and Ted), but the fact is he plays the role perfectly: not just as a rockstar, but a washed up, out of his prime rockstar that still clings to "old desires" even though the world moved on from him over 50 years later.
Won't spoil the game for anyone here but generally speaking, now is the time for Cyberpunk 2077 to be played. It's not a gold standard of the genre by itself, no, but it shows damn well what dark future fantasy is: sad, harsh and most likely broken.

Reviewed on Jan 10, 2024


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