Platinumed the release version on PS4 and came back and did it again on PS5 along side the DLC when 2.0 dropped. This game is unreal. The agency in the way you can approach it from a character/build perspective gives it a high ceiling for replayability. I’ve spent time in Night City as a stealth hacker, as pistol only John Wick, and as a katana only samurai. Speaking of Night City, I became incredibly immersed in the world. With the first person approach, I found myself accept the game world as my reality during the weeks I spent obsessed.

I’ll find time to revisit Night City some day, if for nothing else than a replay of the DLC. After a long road of patches to bring the game to a stable state, and eventually 2.0, CDPR was finally able to execute on its original vision with Phantom Liberty. The story is tight, the acting is phenomenal, the choices are meaningful and the nuance in its direction ties it all together.

This game eventually delivered us an all time experience.