The beginning is a bit all over the place and confusing, but it develops quickly into a great story, one of the best I have read in VNs so far. Very subjective of course. Graphics are also nearly top-tier despte a few misses, like a few lower quality models (gen3 leftovers ?) and very strange hair physics at times XD The lighting and composition are impressive, I suspect a proficient photographer. The portrayal of physchological issues and how broken people deal with them is also very good. The only problem in my opinion is that the odds of so many people with deep issues just happening to meet there is a bit weird, but it's really no big deal. It's not p..n, just erotic (so far?), and frankly I like it better that way, I often find animated sex scenes to be more disruptive than anything now that I played a bunch of VNs. Overall a very good surprise. Caveat: I haven't finished the game yet, I might update my review.
CP 2077 has ironed out most of the issues, and the atmosphere is truly special. I still think that the bullet sponge combat isn't great, that the world still feels a bit fake compared to a classic Elder Scrolls. Still, it's now a good game. Not the game we were expecting a good decade ago, but a good game. At least they put in a genuine effort to properly fix it and improve it, which few editors would have done.
I just can't believe THIS is the result of 7 years of development, with such a great lore. I don't mind the bugs, they are not that bad on PC. I tried really hard but this game is just plain bad. - Deplorable combat. You need an entire magazine of headshots to get an enemy down... It's a tedious game of emptying entire magazines and restore health. A baseball bat does more than TWICE the DPS of an assault rifle. I ended up forgetting all the tactics and just rush them one by one with a baseball bat - that was by far the most efficient 'tactic'... - AI would make Fallout 4 raiders look like a masterpiece in designing villains skills. - This world is graphically nice... But you can't interact with anything. All you got is a shop here and there. No random NPC interaction at all. Only groups of thugs looking copy-pasted with only a skin change. - Unintuitive for pretty much everything but the very basics. All the hacking and camera overheat stuff just feel like a tedious, unnecessary complication. - The car driving is comically bad - The characters acting is bad most of the time, - It does not feel at all like a Cyberpunk world. The 1980's vibe that they tried to reproduce is just totally off. - They let plain text lore explanations, just for you, a bit all over the place. Imagine a movie where they have to show a long written explanation, in plain text, every once in a while instead of integrating it to the world itself, in dialogues etc. This world is so devoid of any interaction that we get the quests DIRECTLY BY PHONE... The side quests are not even integrated to this dull world. You don't come across quests, they just send them to you. Like in Saints Row 3 but without the fun. Maybe it changes later in the game with the arrival of the celebrity guy, but so far... It's just sad. What a waste... Such an immense job on graphics, on this huge city, full of objects, details and designs... But all you do is watch around and shoot at things.
