Recent reviews by El [Mexican] Patrick Star

So I have around 315 hours in cyberpunk because i have been trying to figure out why i am so torn on whether i like it or not.

Let's get the elefant out of the room first: The hype
In 2018 CDPR released a 48 minute gameplay demo of cyberpunk. This demo seriously hurt CDPR because of false advertisment. I remember watching this demo 4-5 times because I was so hyped, even told all my friends constantly for 4 years that Cyberpunk was going to be the best game ever (oh how wrong i was). CDPR showed many features that never made it into the game (wall climbing, hacking, decision that actually change the outcome of scenarios, the coolest skill upgrade UI in any game), they also showed the world in a completely different way then it actually ended up. Stuff like billions of npc's walking on the street in a very believeable way. Now to be fair the game was still in development at the time so it was obvious that some things would change but they cut sooo many things that would have made the game actually great...if they wouldnt have shown us these features no one would have complained but hey here we are with a 48 minute demo of what the game was actually supposed to be like.Also i'd like to add that when cyberpunk was announced they said it would be an RPG but right before release they changed it to action rpg (or just action game dont really remember) to make up for the missing features they intended to be in the game.

First things first: The art, the music, the city, the setting....everything is *breathtaking*

Even the story is great with some major flaws (inconsistencies, logical flaws and some very weird decisions that took place like putting some very exciting stuff behind a 2 minute cutscene). But all in all I like the story because it does what it set out to do -> Show you that almost no story has a happy ending in night city, which i like and respect.

something i really don't like is that after finishing the tutorial, V gets told that he/she has a limited time left to live, but it isn't really incorporated into the gameplay which is a huge missed oppertunity in my opinion

Some sidequests are really cool and have genuinely cool concepts but most gigs feel like filler but not the good type of filler where you are glad that you are able to play more of the game but they feel more like checkboxes. Same goes for the cyberpsycho missions.

Here comes to main part of my complaint: The gameplay
The gameplay is just soooo meh.
Gunplay feels okay

Cybernectic enhancements don't really give you the option to become a murder machine like you'd expect? We are talking about humans enhanced with mechanical parts so tell me why the ♥♥♥♥ can i only have one arm enhancement slot? It's like you are one tenth of a terminator. "Hey you are a mechanically enchanced human and all you can do is double jump" (lol).

Mantis blade and melee gameplay is sooo unbelievably simple that i just wanna smash my head against my desk

The game doesnt really put you in interesting scenarios where you have to use your brain or your abilities in a smart way.

Even the last boss (adam smasher before the patch) was soo bad.

The hacking gameplay loop is a joke ( in the 2018 demo they showed a really cool concept in which the player hacks into the enemy network and he was able to do a bunch of stuff to either the building itself or the guys in the building, this however was cut and replaced with a very simplified system, yeah i obviously dont like the new system). But not only that the whole other hacking system where you can hack individual people is very simple and feels like a point and click game. For a game set in the cyberpunk universe you would expect hacking to be more important or have more thought put into it.

For the amount of effort they put into the believability into this world its really hard to roleplay in this game. Let players be able to smoke a cigarette wherever they want,give them more random places to visit maybe even with npc's like in gta. There is a consumable menu but it's about as simple as you'd expect.

Add random events like trauma team arriving and trying to save people, but no instead they made crimescenes static places.


There is a mod called "Let there be flight" which shows how great the game could have been with a little bit more time. Everything in night city is modelled out even places where the devs didnt expect you to be. This mod shows you night city from another perspective and i think everyone that played the game should have been able to see it from this perspective just because it's so great. So yeah flyable cars would have added a lot to immersion.

Conclusion: I would definitely recommend cyberpunk to almost everyone that enjoys story driven games. Sure i got my fair issues with it but all in all it's not that bad that I'd say i dont recommend it. It has a believeable world, brilliant atmosphere, cool designs (cars,building,residents/cyberware) and pretty average gameplay. HOWEVER i really don't understand how people can say it's the best game ever made?


Also: i am gonna keep adding to this review, when more things come to my mind

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++++ great short expierence

Litteral step down from wd1 and wd2 in almost every form

pavlove

Nier is such an incredible expierence. It tries to subvert expectations and does things that no game has done. It's almost like the devs sat down and said how do we challenge the definition of what a game is...you got an incredible story, a amazing banger soundtrack, granted gameplay isn't groundbreaking but it feels good and doesnt get boring and 2 different games withing a game (hacking minigame and flight unit twin stick shooter passages). This whole game gives off a vibe that only few games achieve. I played it back in 2018 and to this day I listen to the OST because it's that damn good. How many games have you played where you can say you had to complete it 2 times to get to the real meat of the story? And after playing it 2 times that whole intro sequence in the third playthrough is just plain perfection. Games themselves are a form of art (i mainly mean story games) but recently many games have been focusing on individuall elements rather than the complete package....this one however is a work of art in all areas

It's okay.Don't expect Game of the year but all in all its a fun (arcady) game

I like the cube i get at the start

i can bend earth +1