I've been looking forward to Cyberpunk for a couple years. I played all 3 Witcher games. I thought Witcher 2/3 were triple A titles worthy of RPG of the year. I have immense respect for CDPR. But this is NOT a finished game. I played it for a few hours then I was like, "Nuh uh. No. NO. Not doing this." This is early access IMO. Maybe beta. Quick recap, without spoilers. Character creation felt simplistic and lifeless. It felt incomplete. The appearance customization options were limited. There was only one male voice and one female voice. I got into the game and the story started immediately with a mission. I step outside and a bunch of trees in the distance LUNGE FORWARD THROUGH SPACE AND TIME AND SLAP ME IN THE FACE AND THEN DISAPPEAR... but I can still see the trees through a building, some fenches, a car, some other cars... it's just super weird and immersion-annihilating. I get over the creepy trees and start the mission. The mission didn't go as planned, but the way things ended up it felt totally, "thrown together." The plot of that first mission felt as poorly written as this review. Almost lazy. I was like, "Um... Whaaaaat? What's going on? Why??" Then this weird, brief video montage got thrown at me that is probably supposed to... build up the story's key relationships or something. I got it but it felt so sloppy. Then I start a couple more missions but the bugs, hot damn. Like, something keeps bumping into me but it's invisible. There are highlighted objects that I can't pick up even though I should be able to pick them up. Cars appear out of nowhere. Textures pop in all over the place. People turn into vaguely human shaped black blobs of polygons, or their faces disappear. Cops appear out of nowhere and kill me and I don't even know what I did wrong. All this in 5 hours. I will not play this game for at least a couple of more patches, but it DOES deserve a chance. It could be amazing. RIGHT NOW it sucks. Bad.
It's like a final fantasy with crappy anime graphics but a WAY better, more mature story and deeper combat. Loved it. Can't wait for the next installation.
More fun than FFXV with infinitely better writing than FFXV. It's the Dragon Age:Origins of JRPGS. You go into it expecting the typical tripe with giant swords and weird@$$ looking long hair, but you discover an incredibly deep story that delves into all kinds of economic and political issues. Like most good, honest stories, it doesn't try to answer all the deep questions, it just asks them. Lots of entertainment and thought provoking moments. Graphics 6/10 Music 8/10 Gameplay 8/10 Story 10/10
