STRAY

Plot: U r a cat! Yes, you are part of cat gang to be exact, and u get stranded on a big hole that contains a city. Ur gonna do everything in ur grasp, or in ur paws to make it back with ur friends. In this journey the usual happens, meeting new friends, sleeping, playing with balls, ruining carpets and doors, being annoying….and anything that a cat can do, this cat does .

Atmosphere: The combination of graphics, sound and art design is top notch in this video game. The city in decay ,the red neon signs, the cramped apartments is favela like, u see graffiti and neon signs outside, and crt tvs and wood stands inside, this makes for every little home a cozy place to be, perfect for a good nap. The the attention to detail, combined with a sound that is very mellow and much like chill ware. The sound goes up a beat every time some chase or puzzle is about to begin. I can say that the atmosphere is 10 out of 10. A true joy to be roaming the little streets of this game. The robots that inhabit the city are very human like, not in appearance but in manners, gestures, and they even can feel cold?...

Mechanics: U r a cat! Literally that's it, u can do whatever a cat can do! Can u jump like a cat? ….well no to be exact. The cat can reach every place the game allows u by looking at ledge and the prumpt button will show, if it shows it means u can reach it… It sounds weird that there is no jump button, but in reality it is very well implemented. The most important thing is that the fluid motion of the cat does not hinder the chase scenes, u feel in full control of the movement. Simple, nothing ground braking, and solid I would say about the game play mechanics.

Puzzles: This is the easy part of the game and I like it. Its not like u need the puzzles to be Silent Hill or Tormented souls level of difficulty like to enjoy the game. Y think with good game play, solid artistic design, a very powerful sound and a simple but well told story the game conveys a final result that is very intense and at the same time approachable. The puzzles are there to have something to when u roam and absorb the beautiful scenery. Again if u like hard puzzles this is not for u. They are fun and very interactive and that's it.

Final thoughts: I enjoyed the ride (almost 8 hours) and I hope to see more of this studio… a very solid 8 out of 10. U should buy it.

Cyberpunk 2077 Essay ( A beautiful Mess)
The Promises, The hype, The propaganda, The Execution, The half baked experience. It is a lot to take in, from 2013 to 2020 a wild ride for the developers, a headache for the CEOS!
Its not hard to take Cyberpunk for a mediocre experience, but the truth is sometimes (specially in video games) subjective, u can like a game that I don’t, u can hate a game that I love, there is very little agreement on what is the best game of all time, it is no fact. Some say is final fantasy VII, some say is The legend of Zelda ocarina of time, some say is Half life 2, some say is Red Dead Redemption, Others say metal gear solid (psx)……. And some say is The witcher 3. U see is not about time, or graphics, or even truth. Is about the overall individual experience u have with that game. In the time u realized it was the hole package u didn’t expected, it catches u by surprise and in the middle of ur playthrough, u realize u did something great, u take a big breath and say, “this is unreal”. U leave the room felling realized but at the same time wanting more. It is a unique experience, and yes I'm still talking about video games. That is the reason why so many people compare video games to art. It is at the end of the day a subjective matter.
So what this hole thing has to do with cyberpunk?, why the divide between the early reviews and the aftermath of the launch. Well this resumes in one thing, “you where the chosen one” (as Obi one once said) this was the game “to rule them all”, the one that will bring all this discussion to an end, and finally we will have “the best game of all time”.
People tend to forget their singularity when they discuss in forums about this and other games, and they think they talk for everyone when they talk about this game or any game….. but there is no truth, there is no best game and there is not best company, cuz we all know they allays hide something in their closet, Crunch (Cyberpunk), Feminist forced propaganda (Naughty dog), Lies (every EA GAME). This is no perfect industry and im gonna start there.
The development of Cyberpunk is troublesome at best, The first mistake they did is to announce the game in 2013, they had the idea of making a cyberpunk game and the first thing they did when they got MIKE PONDSMITH in their lines was to announce it. This speaks about a very immature company (even if it was founded in the 90’s). They will have to keep the hype up for 7 long years, they didn’t know this, but the thing that saved them was actually their masterpiece, The Witcher 3. This game was the only propaganda they needed to keep the hype train of Cyberpunk going. Once that game became Legendary, the people put all of their arguments foundations about being hyped about Cyberpunk on the Witcher 3. How the Company that Created this masterpiece can do wrong?. They even have a G.O.G. No DRM for us, the pc master race. It seems like the perfect company. But nobody is perfect in this industry, we already made that very clear.
THE PROMISE:
If the first mistake was announce the game 2 early witch made the wait harder and made the hype higher (cuz, lets be honest, there is no way of fulfilling that amount of hype) to maintain that hype u have to promise. And promise they did. They showed game play to the press during E3 2019. Lets Be clear they showed PC game play, Console game play where no were to be found one year before release. But nobody was worried, this is a very common practice in the industry, even console exclusives gameplays are shown in powerful pc before they release into the wild. This was very sneaky from the heads at CDPR. And when the press asked about the console version they say, “its running surprisingly well”. So lets explain this, in the witcher 3 launch a lot of people were mad about the “Downgraded Visuals” from E3. This is cuz they were developing for PC when the consoles (ps4, xbox one) lunched, and guess what? they where completely underpowered. So downgrading the game was part of the natural process of lunching a multi platform game. And they got a lot of flak for that downgrade, that was a stain in their masterpiece, a lie from CDPR?…. U wanted or not CDPR is mainly a pc developer, but if it meant that keeping the pc as they showed in E3 was ditching the PS4 and Xbox money down the window, ur wrong. At the end of the day CDPR is a company, and what I learned in college was that every company have one final goal, TO MAKE MONEY. So a downgrade was certified. Well what does all this have to do with cyberpunk u ask? They were at same exact situation with this game or excuse me, even worse… they have to lunch this top notch next gen pc game into the now 7 years old consoles? They had the same problem… We ditch the old gen and loose money or we make it for all platforms and downgrade? Well they took the decision off making it for all platforms and not downgrade it!! What this means? Well I think u know the answer to this one! The console ports are ♥♥♥♥!
So at the end, they took the old gen consoles money knowing the game was ♥♥♥♥. where they thinking they wouldn't get flak cuz the pc version is actually next gen?… ho boy they were wrong. This high up management decision has nothing to do with the actual developers, its the decision of not learning of all ur past mistakes, and zero idea on how to manage a growing company. Which takes me to my next point… yes this was actually a growing company cashing on the success of Witcher 3 and promises about Cyberpunk. What type of company? Yes the number one gaming company in the Europe stock market. This was totally about greed, when u see the sharks of capitalism investing or better said thrown money at u like its candy, what would u do?? Say no?? Again, Greed!
The aftermath of all this made the conspiracy part of my brain think, “hey they took all the sharks money and they ♥♥♥♥ them over, cuz the stocks plummeted”. But no, its just a crazy theory. At the end of the day CDPR just wanted more money for an unfinished product, and they lied to the faces of the sharks, but at the same time to the most important thing that they have, there costumers. Which now and forever will remember the false promises of the unfinished console port of Cyberpunk 2077.
THE PROPAGANDA:
This was one of the better propaganda campaigns in gaming history. If we talk about maintaining the hype for 7 years, and keeping gamers under ur spell u just have to applaud the CDPR campaign management. Yes CDPR was a established videogame maker, yes they were banking on the success of witcher3, and yes everybody love G.O.G.. But u have to maintain that hype for 7 long years, witch in gaming years is a lot, and for young people is too much, kids now a days cant watch more than 5 minutes of content. Imagine 7 years of long sustained hype. I think the E3 2018 and 2019 cyberpunk segments are perfect execution of game marketing in gaming history. Lets rewind to E3 2018… The hole xbox event is about to finish, uncle Phil is about to close the event and boom, everything went dark. I immediately jumped out of my seat and scream CYBERPUUUNK YEAAAA!!!! It was perfect! What time to be alive. My Expectation to see Cyberpunk gameplay in E3 2019 where high!!! Just imagine when I saw Keanu Reeves lifting up those shades and looking at u in the eyes, yes Neo himself, the king of cyberpunk movies, telling u that he is gonna be in the game!! Perfect timing, Perfect marketing! They ended up the marketing campaign with a sort of Cyberpunk Directs a few months before the game lunch I never missed a single one of those... the hype was just to high.
THE EXECUTION:
Do u know when u have an idea that is too much for u to put in practice!! ....
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