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2020
I didn't expect at all to find myself chasing down all the endings for cyberpunk this week, but here we are. I abandoned my save just before the point of no return (though I didn't actually realise this til now) playing the PS4 version on PS5 at launch due to the endless crashing and bugs which I won't talk about here because you already know the score.
I almost love this game, despite all the frustration and missing features and being royally mugged off as a console player for over a year. The story is great, if padded with edginess for edginess' sake, and Night City is almost a world-beating setting, if experienced when the game is holding your hand and dragging you through it. Which, shockingly enough for an open-world game, is when it's at its best.
Even with patch 1.5, there's still no traffic on the roads, and barely any pedestrians - the city just does not feel lived in when seen outside of a scripted event.
This is already too long (ignoring some glaring issues too like the skill tree, progression, and the awful glut of pointless side content) so for the benefit of anyone that hasn't played this through yet, there's a great game in here if you almost treat it as a linear experience and do away with the illusion of choice presented to you.
I almost love this game, despite all the frustration and missing features and being royally mugged off as a console player for over a year. The story is great, if padded with edginess for edginess' sake, and Night City is almost a world-beating setting, if experienced when the game is holding your hand and dragging you through it. Which, shockingly enough for an open-world game, is when it's at its best.
Even with patch 1.5, there's still no traffic on the roads, and barely any pedestrians - the city just does not feel lived in when seen outside of a scripted event.
This is already too long (ignoring some glaring issues too like the skill tree, progression, and the awful glut of pointless side content) so for the benefit of anyone that hasn't played this through yet, there's a great game in here if you almost treat it as a linear experience and do away with the illusion of choice presented to you.
2018
2021
2022
I really want to rate this higher as when the flow state gets flowing, it's a genuinely sublime experience. Art direction, sound, and level design are all great, but it's let down (for me at least) by some cheap bullshit moves and a few fights that make my want to burn my house down with me inside it.
2021
2021
2021
2021