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Cyberpunk 2077 is still a massive disappointment after update 1.6. Edgerunners, on the other hand, is a surprisingly good tie-in anime, exceeding everyone’s expectations. Let’s compare their stories and characters.
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0:00 Intro
2:56 Cyberpunk 2077 Act 1
11:02 Edgerunners Act 1
17:34 Comparing the Story Setups
20:51 Cyberpunk 2077 Act 2
31:34 2077’s Characters
43:21 Edgerunners Act 2
48:09 Edgerunners’ Characters and Comparison to 2077
52:35 Cyberpunk 2077 Act 3
1:07:12 Edgerunners Act 3
1:16:10 Conclusion
Credits:
“Newer Wave” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
shabibmahab
31.10.2022No mention of Alita?
Christon Colebrook
22.10.2022Very good vid
SinnerBeta
22.10.2022Agree on the mechanic gripes but not the writing. For example the Devil and Johnny are sad ending, not bad ones, and even those have hope to them.
DeadGhost316
22.10.2022So the 3 hour long cyberpunk review is still happening?
SLR Mod Shop
22.10.2022Best girl is the barista of the Afterlife bar…
Paz
22.10.2022Hard disagree. Game never sucked to begin with. Bethesda games have been coming out like this for days with some of the games having issues still not fixed to this day. But they get a pass cause "AaRoW iN dA kNeE" nah. Game is great, has a great story, great characters and lore so interesting I bought old play books just read them.
Robert Alexander
22.10.2022hello fresh is really good 👍
Joel Clarke
22.10.2022Biggest gripe for me is the first person cutscenes! I always feel so unengaged, restricted and impatient.
hihero
22.10.2022Great upload man. You're one of the few YouTubers that keep me engaged for 1hr+ and interested in what you have to say next. Your channel inspired me to start uploading and I genuinely appreciate that there's no adds every 5-15 minutes like in most channels I watch. On top of that you actually have a legit sponsor that can help people better themselves not some horseshit mobile game.
Ian Parrent
22.10.2022Man that part where he couldn't afford to bury his mother and had to get her cremated hits way to close to home. Also being 17 at the time there's just not a lot you can do.
Ambusher
22.10.2022Did you see CDPRs video on ESG. Fuck that company. They need to be shunned.
MadLad
19.10.2022This guy sees something good and uses it to shit on something else. He's so negative ong it aint good for him
Jay Tee & D&D
19.10.2022(Chef's kiss) best video on youtube
nfrost1986
19.10.2022Game fucking sucks
happy llama
19.10.2022lol I like when you qualify that, "Yes, I've played Cyberpunk a second time" as if that makes you seem more qualified and not like the type of complete buffoon who plays Cyberpunk twice. Lul.
John Rex
19.10.2022It gravely depresses me that CD Projekt so badly failed to deliver what could have been a truly great story and game. But thanks for the review, man. It was better than the game.
dvngnt
19.10.2022im def getting the expansion. sasha grey is in it
Rodd Broward
19.10.2022Honestly, I just expected some more Act 1 stuff. The game changes drastically in Act 2 and it suddenly doesn't really feel the same because the story is no longer about you and your friends, it's about Johnny and the chip. You don't have a team and you're no longer free, so it no longer feels like what you'd expect from a Cyberpunk 20XX story.
Probably the worst thing is that it's so lonesome. You have some contacts but unlike in Act 1 they never meet and all act on their own, it's not the same, it's not a team like on the tabletop. All you have is a voice in your head. The closest thing you have to a team is Panam and her family, which I appreciate. It's like the game dangles in front of you the story you could have had and then takes it all away from you so that you're constantly reminded of what you're missing out on.
I mean, don't get me wrong, it's not a bad story. I just don't think it's the best delivered in video game format. Compare it to Shadowrun Dragonfall, a game that makes you care about a character's death within the first 15 minutes of it. The world is shitty and oppressive, but at least you have a team and friends who care about you, and they're there with you when things get bad. There are sad moments but you fight it through with them. I feel like the anime had more of this kind of energy.
Edit: Having now watched the whole video, glad we're mostly in agreement.
Óscar
19.10.2022You're anti-socialist and can see the rot of late stage capitalism. Tell me you're privilege without telling you're privilege.
George Tsakanikas
19.10.2022Ya not gonna lie, saw the show, saw sale on steam, got punked…. I tried to refund but the cinematic and learning wtf was going on in the game cause me to bleed over the max time allowed before refund… still trying to make my way through it.. bored though.
B L S
19.10.2022the Synthetic Man returns to his roots
Zauxst
18.10.2022In the game you do have cyberpsychosis… But Johnnys chip basically saves you from cyberpsychosis status.
Rekzu
18.10.2022Milking this like a onlyfans model stfu and stop bitching all the time.
Mom De Villiers
18.10.2022Also I hop Jonny silverhand will be dlc but real self in real life or on in the matrix 🤔 he look real good need more alternative costume for Jonny silverhand aswell new character for v fall in love with please 🙏
Edd OH
18.10.2022CDPR went full corpo to succ the ESG.
Glass
18.10.202232:07 that was so jarring I could feel the NPC's body despawn after he got shot. Some real Skyrim shit.
AfroDevil
18.10.2022Love your takes on modern gaming.
Legendary Ronin
18.10.2022song? at 41:30
Lucas Leite
18.10.2022When i saw how u looked i wasnt suprised
Hollow G
18.10.2022Really thinking about it, Johnny Silverhand really was just Cyberpsychosis.
Imagine a story where V tried to build up the rep to free Jackie from Saka (they could turn him into an engram if you send him to Vik) or just get righteous vengeance against Saka or even just to hold up Jackie's dream.
You could use the side stories as way to improve or degrade your empathy level, that level deciding how your implants act and the how the endings play out.
(Play nice, go out nice type thing)
Instead of a sense of urgency, V is instead left with a sense of building dread. Trying to live a life that he is slowing losing control of to bring justice to himself, the world, and his old friend.
Johnny is cool, but his continued existence really just boils down to an excuse for why V doesn't go full psycho after slotting so much shit after losing his merc friends and being betrayed by his contractor.
Glass
18.10.202246:17 I didn't care for Kiwi's faceplate slot, but David being trapped in that fucking surgery truck, getting his limbs amputated and then emerging with his torso grotesquely implanted into a mecha was too fucking much. That shit was horrying, dehumanizing and just straight-up body/psychological horror.
mrshmuga9
17.10.202230:30 You make a great point.
Castle23clash 01
17.10.2022My biggest issue with the anime was how rushed it got from ep 6 to the end in the second half. Stuff like Maine's cyberpsychosis I feel like didn't get enough time for it to really develop. There was also abit too much going on in the second half after the timeskip that it felt like they were just rushing to get the ending. It was still an entertaining watch overall though, and I like how you breakdown the anime's strengths (great aesthetic and animation, the cyberpunk themes, good characters) without overpraising it like what other anime channels have been doing.
Rylemeteph P.A
17.10.2022Fuchhing montage, so many quest rushed to the point of breaking inmmersion, i cant connect with jackie because I barely know him no matter what that montage shown.
Even tho i have a better experience with this game, BUT i played in a VERY veeery modded state XD.
mrshmuga9
17.10.202237:02 Oh, so I guess they’re firmly planting themselves to become garbage. Well their plan for like, 6 different games in a decade already suggested that so I guess it’s just poop icing on the sh*t cake.
Dżony Dżąs
17.10.2022Noo, how can you enjoy the game I don't like? You are all just consumers, the game is dead! Stop having fun!
88lotus
17.10.2022This dude might be a little obsessed xD
ItsYourMama
17.10.2022a TV show is not the game 🤣 IE the game still suck.
Zauxst
17.10.2022This was overall a pretty good video
God Tier Game Dev
17.10.2022Dude you keep making me want to replay Deus Ex games with your background music. 🤣
Sai
17.10.2022Eh David being “special” is kinda typical of a shonen protag. Given it’s only a ten episode series I’m glad they focused more on the style and spectacle than trying to make the characters more than archetypes.
C. Christopher
15.10.2022The Jackie montage should have been the game, the heist could be the final mission, but they had to shoehorn Keanu Reeves into the game
Cappy D
15.10.2022like to see this man get sponsored
Carlos
15.10.2022I thought Takemura got jumped by Arasaka junior's orders
GojiraRising
15.10.2022Alanah was the best character in the history of Cyberpunk 2077.
God Tier Game Dev
15.10.2022I don't see why anger and the desire to seek revenge means he should or would have a lower empathy stat. Feeling anger at an injustice is a good thing. Revenge being inherently bad is ridiculous.
Aidan West
15.10.2022I think I might buy CP77 it doesn't actually look that bad
mister-x
15.10.2022Completed the game on release, and picked it up back again for the 1.6 patch. It was never going to live up to the promises, and even if they make the remaining changes leading up to the DLC, the game is forever gonna feel undercooked, but I enjoyed it a lot nonetheless . Beats Ubisoft's yearly slop handily.
Anime is good despite feeling rushed, but can't help but to think that the reaction is super overblown.
CDPR can go to hell with that ESG BS, tho. I'm not giving them a single cent going forward
Samuel
15.10.2022I disagree with a lot of your opinions. In particular I find most of your takes about the characters and writing in the game to be real stinkers. But I did sit through almost the whole video, so good story telling I guess.
mikeylambda1322
15.10.2022finally, today is a good day