Let me preface this by saying that I never really followed the development of this game (or any game for that matter) and didn't really know what to expect or what was promised. As someone who has been playing games for more than two decades, I know that things get cut from final releases for various reasons, and what really counts is what is delivered and not what was said in some podcast during the development of the game. There is nothing in this game that is revolutionary, and that's ok, because it does what it was meant to do. Deliver an awesome adventure through a carefully and beautifully crafted world. Night city has got to be one of the most, if not THE most beautiful designed cities in gaming history. The whole place oozes with atmosphere and it contrasts great with the outer region of the city with it's desert setting. I loved clearing the map one side quest at a time, which as we can expect from CDPR have all interesting backstories and some of the side quest outright kept my butcheeks clenched. There is tons of things to do in the city, albeit for a limited time, after a while you run out of things to do and you have to keep doing the main story which is a great adventure. Gameplay in the beginning got me excited as I was introduced to many different playstyles but it quickly spirals out of control in the later levels and there isn't any challenge to the game even on the highest difficulty. A not very wise design decision is also the inability to reset the attribute points, meaning if you want to invest in a different playstyle you have to start a new character and play the game all over again, something i never do. Then there are the negatives. The game as it is has quite a few bugs which may or may not result in a gamebreaking experience. There are several quests that are still unfinished even though I finished them, and for the love of god get rid of the minimap its 2021 not 2001, its an outdated UI element that needs to be gone in todays age
