Cyberpunk 2077

I had fun despite it all; but ultimately, it is not a good game. This review is written on patches 1.31. A lot of bugs still remains despite the patches. You could get stuck in places, a bright light shone at you when exitting menu (and it was night time in the game), issues with looting, to name a few. Regardless of the technical difficulty, the game is still not excell at anything presented. It's open world is aimless, driving is subpar, and shooting is just okay. It's a shame because Night City is beautiful and almost being immersive enough to thoroughly enjoy the game. As of now, this game is only worth as a benchmark tool

So let's start with the good: There are a number of characters and story beats I found to be good/interesting. The graphics can look good when the game doesn't break. Johnny Silverhand's gun is satisfying to use. Some side missions are good. Now for the bad: This isn't an open world, choice based RPG. Not really. Sure you CAN do side missions that aren't integral to the story, but otherwise the world itself is as hollow in life as it is dense as a city. Dialogue choices are only there to get more money sometimes. Somehow Fallout 4 had better, more story changing dialogue choices. The core story is incredibly boring and short. After finishing the prologue, I focused primarily on side missions. Some of which were interesting with some world building and characters, others felt like needless filler. But once I focused on the core story, I'd say it took all of 8 hours to complete at best. It gave me next to no time to get attached to any core main character. God forbid I powered through the story before I did any side stuff. Feel like there wouldn't have been much of a story/choice at all. The open world despite feeling hollow, also somehow feels bloated with too much stuff thrown at you, most of which isn't interesting. That's generally an issue with a lot of open world games, but it rings very true here. Not to mention the fact the game was at least 2 years rushed. Game has been out nearly a year and there are still game breaking bugs. Was the crunch worth it? It never is. And I feel so sorry for the devs that worked so hard in such a short span of time only to be forced to release such a broken and incomplete product. The game doesn't just need patches. It needs an overhaul. If it had focused more on developing its core story and world and not faking its way as a choice based RPG, I feel it could have been a better experience.

I'm not even going to bother being disrespectful in this review. This game by knowledge of everyone by now knows that this game is fundamentally broken but I've seen many people say this game has a great story and amazing graphic's. This game graphic's are good when it works but NOT amazing but for the most textures always popping in and out consistently ETC. cause there's to much to cover on that end. As for the story its's just bad not very engaging pretty boring and bland your character V is just lazily written I'm no great writer but this character your character you just don't care about Him/Her on any level. Jackie......Yeah i like Jackie. Interactions with other characters are uninteresting and Choices that end up leading u into the same conventional path regardless. DEUS EX HUMAN REVALUTION Nearly did everything this game did but waaaaaaaaaay better. Just play DEUS EX HUMAN REVALUTION.

...coded so poorly that it actually needed someone to create a mod to make it playable. Pfft. No. A fifty-percent discount for a piece of shit still means you're buying a piece of shit, you're just not paying as much.

It is a slog to play large swaths of this broken nightmare. Even with it "fixed" it is an empty, Ubisoft-esque phone it in mess. Theres nothing here that warrents a replay, theres not really much here that warrents actually finishing the game. So much is wrong and its not stuff that gets fixed with patches. Its such a shame. At the end of the day if you pick it up on a decent PC its playable and you can get 30$ worth of fun out of it. But its not the next big thing, its not special, its just a lot of hype. The marketing team did a much better job on this game than anyone else involved