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Glad I made myself go back to this, glad I made myself wait until I had a decent computer, glad I waited for the 2.0 update... glad in general for this game existing. Probably the best portrayal of cyberpunk as an aesthetic and a narrative idea I've ever seen. I absolutely loved this. I bounced off during my first playthrough because pistols and stealth is kind of a boring playstyle - going back in with blades and lots and lots of cyberware made the moment to moment combat a lot more fun. Turning the difficulty up to very hard helped too! Kind of wish I'd saved Phantom Liberty for afterwards, it's probably my favourite story in games for a long while. Songbird is awesome and the whole 007 James Bond vibe is nailed, spies and espionage etc. Really good stuff. The main quest doesn't really match it, but it's still above par. I can see why people would be upset with the ending selection (or at least, the one I got), but I think in my case going out in a blaze of glory destroying a space station is about the most fitting thing that could happen to V. I enjoyed seeing V and Johnny's relationship develop, and I liked all the stuff you can do for Johnny - taking Rogue out for that date they never had, getting Samurai back together, etc. Really fun stuff. Immersive and gorgeous world, outstanding presentation. Great soundtrack in particular. I'm so glad I waited until now to play the game because I would be devastated if I played it back in 2019 or whenever and bounced off it because of it being a broken mess. I hope that CDPR take their time with the next one. It's really, really tempting to just dive back into another playthrough as a cold af Corpo sniper/hacker combo, but I will hold off. A really impressive game overall. Blows my mind that it is the same developer who made Witcher 3.

Reviewed on Mar 31, 2024


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