I truly think that The Witcher 3 is a masterpiece. It is one of the, if not the best game ever made. The story is incredible. The world is fleshed out. The characters are meaningful and you actually care about them. After playing that game, I had high expectations for CD Project Red's next title, Cyberpunk 2077. I am disappointed to say that I didn't feel that it met the standard that CDPR set with the Witcher 3. Yes, it was buggy upon release. I was able to look past the fact that sometime items would be floating in midair, that you could glitch through the roof of some buildings (the Delamain building using double jump off the roof of a car), and that characters would glitch and appear inside of each other sometimes. Overall, the world of Cyberpunk 2077 was nice to look at, but lacked liveliness. There was many NPCs walking around the world that mostly looked original (not a bunch of repeat characters). However, what were they doing? The vast majority of them, especially in the city, seemed to be just walking around aimlessly. As far as the character of V goes, I felt myself unattached to her (I played a female). I didn't really care all that much about her problems. I didn't really care that much about achieving her ultimate goal in the game. The fighting and augmentation in the game is pretty fun, especially using the mantis blades. It was a lot of fun to run at an enemy and slice them to bits with your own arms. However, sometimes I felt like the game was trying too hard to be a FPS and not enough an RPG, as the skill tree was lending itself to. I felt the game was too short. After playing the Witcher 3 and its two expansions, I still hadn't had my fill of Geralt. Cyberpunk 2077 is over so much faster and I was disappointed that I had run out of things to do so quickly and had basically nothing left except to finish the game. That being said, I did enjoy the game. I just didn't feel it matches up with TW3.
CD Project Red really got it right when they made this game. Whenever I try to think of how to describe it, I find myself always wanting to say that it is truly a masterpiece. The story and the characters are all great. The game play is challenging and a lot of fun. The world is beautiful (even in its battered state). The creativity on the creatures and the depth of how each one has different strengths and weaknesses to exploit is amazing. The attention to detail in this game is like none other. My one critique is that it does get a little slow in the middle, but it adds variety to the game. I have never been one to play expansions to games, but I was excited to do the two expansions on this game because I didn't want it to end. They're just as good as (albeit shorter than) the main game. I would highly recommend playing the complete game with both expansions. This game has good replay value, too. There are a lot of choices you make in this game and it's fun to play through again and choose different options and see how that makes the game play out.
