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天皇陛下万歳

I love Democracy

Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Spear shall be shaken, Shields be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now!
Ride to Ruin and the world's ending!

We have a T-Rex

White men dominating the natives and force them to fight each other

Barbatos

WE WUZ RANGZ N SHIZ

> Play Tzeentch
> Lost a battle
> ALL PART OF THE PLAN
> Refuses to elaborate further
> Leaves

Hop on Halo

TLDR
This game is a buggy mess with non existing AI that will ruin your cyberpunk experience. However if you're into linear storyline with little to non existing RPG elements, then Cyberpunk 2077 is your game.

Story
The story is well crafted with the characters feeling natural and alive. The acting is top notch and the facial animation is next generation. You will feel attach to some of these characters and would like to know more of their background story. But just as soon as you're starting to get to know these characters, you will be pulled out immediately before you get to know them more. It is frustrating that they make Keanu Reeves character the main focus in the game, I would like to point out that Keanu's character is actually well written, his acting is a bit stiff which is odd considering all the other minor characters has top notch acting but I feel like his role is not properly fit for the rockerboy loudmouth and rebel behaviour. If you rush the game to play the main story, you'll finish it in about less then 20 hours, but you can easily sink in more than 40 hours into the game just by playing side quest because some of the side quest are as well written as the main one.

RPG
If the story is well written does that mean the RPG system is as complex as the Witcher 3? Or even better then that of TW3? NO! It's almost non existent here. I've never played TW3, I have played Fallout:NV and Skyrim both in my opinion are some of the best RPG out there. When I start up Cyberpunk, they gave us the illusion of choice for our lifepath, the Nomad who cares about family and honor, the streetkid who are gangster and cares nothing but money, and then there's the cold and calculating Corpo path which I took. The lifepath intro took around 30 minutes to finish, then the game just throws everything out of the roof and time jump the game for 6 months. For those who wanted to play as Nomad to experience Night City for the first time will be disappointed because of the time jump, those that play Corpo like I did would also be disappointed by how they introduce you to this very dark and eerie mission where you're supposed to assassinate somebody but then the game just pulled you out and put you into the seat of a Streetkid. My character went from cold and calculating to a simple mindless mercenary who would then later steal from the very company that V work at. The ending also requires no work, everyone get the same access to all the endings provided you do all the side quest necessary to unlock said ending. There's one secret ending but you only need to choose a correct dialogue with Johnny to unlock it. The character you're playing doesn't even feel like you're playing yourself but just a driver or a vassal of another character just with different flavors. The name V is just a short alias for his real name which is Vincent. People compared the RPG level of Cyberpunk the same as Fallout 4, but at least Fallout 4 had the option to join factions instead of being a lonewolf mercenaries and that faction will actually help you to achieve their own version of the ending.

Customization
Horrendous, absolutely terrible. Your character will either look badass and get destroy easily by high level of enemies or you can look silly but has higher chances of survival because of the stupid stat system. There's no transmog system where you can use any clothes you want but keep the stat of other clothing. 2077 in Style trailer show us all these cool fashion that seems like we could choose, but sadly it's only for NPC. What's worse is that the Cyberware has nothing to do with how your character look aside from your arm which you can install mantis blade or gorilla arm. There's no animation when you install new cyberware aside from the introduction mission, so installing new cyberware feels underwhelming. The character creation menu is underwhelming, they added the option to choose your penis type but not letting you place where you eyes can be, my V looks like he has a huge forehead and there's nothing I can do to change it. Oh you can't even get a haircut after finishing creating your character, you're telling me you can change what you can have in your arm but not get a simple haircut? Bruh even GTA:SA had one.

Gameplay
Gameplay feels like Borderlands, which is not really a bad thing. I personally like the combat it feels satisfying when you have the tech weapon, charged it up and gets a headshot. Hacking in the game feels simple compared to what was shown in the E3 Demo, but it felt fun, fast paced and helpful depending on what kind of quickhack ability you have.

Driving
Driving feels ok, though I feel GTA V still has better driving in an open world game. Cars feel unique to long from the inside but driving wise, almost all car feel the same. First person driving is a bit hard to drive because your camera makes you feel short, certain car like the Aerondight has a blackline at the windshield which makes it harder to drive in first person because it's blocking your view. You can't customize your vehicle which is also disappointing considering a decade old game like GTA:SA is able to customize vehicles.

Soundtrack
Amazing, the track are one of the things that were done right in this game. My personal favorite track is the Cello version of Johnny's Theme. While the original songs in the game are also amazing, artist ranging from Grimes to Refused really makes you feel like you're in the Cyberpunk universe.

Level Design
Night City is the most ambitious city in a game I have ever seen. It really sells you the whole idea of a dystopian future fill with advance technology and corporate greed. The level of details gone into making the city is definitely breathtaking. There isn't much interior you can get inside aside from doing quest but they are also well detailed. There are food stalls at each corner of the city but unfortunately you can't react with the world, you can't eat noodles at the stalls, can't drink at the bar, there's just no interaction with the world at all it just feels like a tech demo with a very impressive visual.

Artificial Intelligence
One word, braindead. Night City visually is breathtaking, but the NPC will destroy the whole illusion. You can check out videos on Youtube comparing the game's AI with GTA V and you can see the differences. Enemy AI are bearable and can provide challenge, boss fight are well done especially with the character Oda.

Conclusion
This is simply an action-adventure game with impressive visuals. The story will get you hook into the game once, but I see no replay values. They marketed this game as a full fledged RPG on par or even better then that of TW3 but all we got is an imitation of an open world game that fails to give the liveliness of a city on par with that of GTA V. This game has tons of issues such as bugs but those can be fixed. What cannot be fix is the lack of the RPG elements that they threw out of the windows when they started making Keanu's character as the main focus. I rate this game 7/10. Only buy it when on sale or when they fix the ridicolous amount of bugs that are present in the game.