Cyberpunk 2077 was obviously a project full of passion.

As I have only played it a long while after release, I have not really experienced any of those infamous launch bugs. The game felt very polished actually.

A thing I did not like were the side jobs and side gigs, even though some of them added quite interesting pieces to the story and expanded on the already fantastic setting quite a bit. They just felt very "Open world checklisty", which I have not been a fan of at all in games recently.

Another thing that annoyed me quite a bit was, that you can't remove weapon mods anymore, once you have applied them to a weapon. Which means that you are quite limited in your ability to test out the synergy of different builds.

The biggest strenghts of the game are clearly the setting/map and the story. I quickly fell in love with Night City, not just aesthetically, but also all the different small and large dystopian tales it had to tell. The games music is also fantastic, so much so, that I find myself listening to it on Spotify sometimes recently.

The games story is just awfully beautiful, as no matter how much V tries to make things better, Night City always finds a way to beat him down, and the chances of him getting a happy end are at most a slight hinted at future possibility, once you've gotten to the ending of the playable story.

All in all I felt the love CD Projekt Red put into this project throughout the whole thinq, and I would definitely recommend to watch the anime accompanied to the first playtrough, as it adds even more depth to the setting than it already has and makes the final bossfight way more satisfying.

Reviewed on Apr 01, 2024


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