Posted on: February 26, 2023

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Verified ownerGames: 10 Reviews: 1
Cyberpunk 2077: a half-baked cake, still
The game's very impressive in many ways and as an open-world environment, as are graphics and overall style. For lovers of good storytelling, I'd say this one doesn't disappoint. There're many HQ narrative cut scenes, as you progress in the story, which is quite catchy. V's world is HUGE and there're many places to go, with a plethora of reasonably different and interesing side missions. So what's not to enjoy? For the most part: uncaring game design and bugs - still. Graphical glitches happen sometimes, e. g. with water, or floating NPC's, but well. Probably worst of all is the key mapping system. There're so many awkward and downright aggravating aspects/restrictions, about how you can't map some (but important) keys, as you need it, or you're forced to use a certain key for an action. This often prevents a fluid, intuitive experience for the game, while it offers and requires using many physical and virtual (cyber) actions. So, you may have a hard time making full use of them (I do): You can't map "KP_ENTER" at all, so 10-key is basically broken. For the most part, context-dependent double mappings aren't allowed, but different keys for similar actions in different contexts can be enforced (exit may require ESC or backspace), where actually ENTER or same key should do. Pick up body needs key "R", drop it "Q" (blocks other use) and so on. It's a horrible mess, that may or may not work for some "WASD" or controller users. There're only 2 quick-use slots, e.g. 1 for heal, 1 for grenade OR cyber-implant (blocks MOUSE_5). No sense, no fun. The hard-earned, scarce perk points often only bring tiny advantages. The conversation system is unchallenging. There's an abundance of clothing items and guns, but a serious lack of storage and an inconclusive system of item attributes and upgrades. Removing gun mods won't propagate to the UI. Task switch breaks the display. A crash and other bugs here and there. Try it, if you can flip ~50 bucks for beta software.
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