So, to clarify first, there are to perspectives out of which I could write this review. The first one is the one, in which I just picked up a game for 18 bucks, and honestly - it was a fun game. The second one is the one out of which I finally played a game everyone (from press to friends) told me, was the best RPG made in a long time. I will write my review out of the second, meaning I will compare it to DA:O, Witcher 3, Both Pathfinders and FE:Three Houses (Which in my opinion were the best RPGs, of the last years). Also note that lite spoilers might be included in the review. Also note that I will not comment on combat alot, since I play RPG's for story only. The Good: -It's incredible, incredible polished -Zero Bugs discovered -Graphics, and amount of detail is great. -Fully Voice casted, and great voice actors. -A lot of way's to get creativ in the interaction with the world (teleportation, combining abilitys, using the enviroment) -Great abilitys in general -The best romance scenes, I've seen in a RPG so far. The Bad: -The story did not catch me - it's solid, but predictable, sometimes pushes you in directions, that did not feel natural to me, and progresses to fast. Also there is this divinity typical humor and over the board cartoonish evil (Ego Draconis had it too) which I do not like, since it creates a fun, entertaining, light hearted game, instead of a serious, epic, adventure. -Except Fane, the companions are quit clichee, quite simple minded black&white and there quest feel quite forced and linear. -It lacks an aligment system, and being evil doesn't make a lot of sense in context of the story, and doesn't really have influence on the story except the very ending. It's a heroes journey. -The game world altogether is quite small and and it only took me about 70 hours to do every side quest i discovered and main story. Conclusion: A really fun game, with is entertaining but not epic, polished but somewhat lacking in depth storywise. About 78/100
The Game is bye far the best RPG I've played, and I've played alot. Kingmaker already was an excellent RPG and this surpassed it. Firstly - It runs perfectly fine (RTX2060), and I did not encounter and my playthrough was pretty much bug free (November 2021) (1 remeberable bug (not being able to leave a map) in 120 hours (1 playthrough!) in a CRPG, that could be fixed by reloding the last auto safe is totally fine and a will not rate this done for it.) The setting is amazing. Full stop. It gave me goosepumps several times. The music is among the best I've heard the freedom of choice is beyond, and it is really complex. It's the fantasy of an RPG, and rarly does any mistakes. I can not talk alot about the difficulty of fights, since I play RPGs for the story, on easy settings, but the riddles are challeging, but solveable, dialogs are enganging, and the overall story and mythic path even made me philophize about real world choices, and ways of living. To summarize: The Good: -Amazing Setting -Decent Graphics (if you like the style) -Amazing Story -Amazing Class/Lifepath System -Decent Character Relationships and Romance -Great Freedom of Choice/and really diffrent endings. -Interesting Companions -Extremly High replayability and complex requierments for certain story events -They cover a wide range of topics The bad: -The last chapter feels a bit rushed -Can definitly be a bit overwhelming at the start -The romance options do not really compare to Octavia in Kingmaker (but thats personal taste) (They are good nevertheless) -There are again some companions which are a boring (but thats personal taste) -It would be great if main characters (companions etc.) had fitting facial expression during dialogs on there portrait (but I guess that due to limit of ressources) -The whole companion romance things start a bit late and feels short, in comparison to 120 hours (but what is there is good) Thank you Owlcat Games for providing this amazing RPG! (I would rate it 98/100)
First off, I really believe if you just played shooters and GTA-like Games so far you will be very happy with CP2077. If you are coming von a RPG or or CRPG perspective, or really liked the Witcher Series I would not recommend. A lot of people complained about bugs, but honestly, on PC at the end of December 2020 I did not discover any bugs that would cause me to downvote the game. (I can live with some, all RPGs have them) The game to me has a much more serious problem with its general design. To also mention the positiv things. The Graphics and the world design, as well a the setting is just beyond every other game I've ever played. The world makes me want to discover all the parts of it, every building, every street, seems to be designed with care, and thats great. And it is a very big game world, in which you could easily have more the one game unfolding it's story, without designing a new game world and in which I could spend 200+ hours more. BUT they are terrible from a role playing perspective, beyond act 1. Act 1 was honestly great, and excatly what I expect of the game after seeing the trailers, trying to make your way to the top in a flashy cyberpunk world with its bright and dark sides. The problem of the story is that is that it basicly has its final in act 1 and goes down after and ends terrible. Works for a Indie game as a "experience" but its a bad expirience, so no replayability and not matching expectations. Also there is no freedom of choice and many parts (tarot cards, priests you meet) just mean nothing in the and - which fits the general theme of the story, but also - isnt a enjoyable experience to me. This results in little freedom of choice. Also the whole "romance" part (which they talked about in the trailers) had little freedom of choice and game of thrones like "you thought this character is important-but no". It seems to be a general idea to "tease and not deliver" in the game, which is interesting but in the and not enjoyable. 2/5
