Ultimately there is.... ...no good outcome for anyone. V can save their life, but at the cost of becoming a nobody, who will never have meaningful chrome again. You betrayed someone who would have rather died than be a weapon for NUSA again, you killed Johnny and all your friends have moved on or are about to. And you sold out to the FIA, where you are surrounded by burned out husks like Reed, while serving power hungry madmen. The best part about the expansion is that the new ending brings us full circle to Dex's prologue question "A long life as nobody or go out in a blaze of glory". Now that the "long life" option is available, you can make a meaningful choice and are no longer forced into the "Death in 6 months" endings. And suddenly you realize that survival at any cost might just not be worth it, cause the writers believe that Cyberpunk stories must always end badly. There are so many missed opportunities. Sending Songbird to the moon should either have tied into the Arasaka ending or the Crystal Palace ending, where V also goes into space. Would it have been so hard to have a fixed Songbird come back and help you in these endings, by slowing V's cancer, so that we maybe get 10 years instead of 6 months? Or have her return during the Mikoshi scene, after she got better on the moon, and have her help Alt in curing us? Or suddenly have her voice on comms when you are approaching Crystal Palace:"V, it's Songbird. Thank you for everything, now it's my turn to help you. We will do this together". Is it really too much to ask for one happy ending, in a game that has so many downers? Why even have multiple endings, when every ending is depressing? I will not buy any future CDPR games, as long as this writing team is in charge of their games. Had these people written Witcher 3 it would have ended with Ciri dead and Geralt overdosing on potions 6 months later. I play games to have fun and enjoy myself and not to become depressed.
This was one of my favorite fantasy strategy games of all times. Think Panzer General in a D&D setting. I might even still have the beautiful box somewhere in my basement, but the original game stopped working with later Windows versions and I never bothered using Dox Box. At the beginning of the game you can pick your general from various character classes and then follow a story campaign through many missions. You take your core army from one battle to the next and over the course of the campaign you get access to a huge number of different units. Unlike Panzer General your leader can cast a handful of spells and thereby take direct influence. If you like fantasy strategy games then this is a must buy. You won't be disappointed.
