Phantom Liberty along with the Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 patch are now in the position of being the best game and expansion I've ever played. CD Projekt RED really got their act together in fixing the original game, then improving it beyond expectations into the masterpiece it has become now. Phantom Liberty is the icing on the cake, extending the base game with some long sought after high quality action packed content. Idris Elba did an amazing job in his role in Phantom Liberty, as well as Keanu returning to give us more epic Johnny Silverhand. Dogtown, the new area in Pacifica that the expansion unlocks is amazing! It is a rough place and the Barghest faction protecting it are tough but fun to battle. I don't want to give away any spoilers, so all I can say is CDPR did an amazing job on this and the game and expansion will live on as high end classics going forward. I can highly recommend this to everyone, it is now the best game I've ever played (now topping Witcher 3 which was my previous top title).
This final chapter of the Blackwell story and series of games was very well done and kept me constantly engaged wanting to know where the story was going to take me next. It was very well executed and felt both longer and more entertaining than the original 4 games in the series. While I enjoyed the entire series, I found the first 4 games to lack a central element of the story to draw me in and keep me excited. Blackwell Epiphany however had more characters to discover, explore and interact with, puzzles and problems to solve, and overall much more depth than any of the original 4 games. There was more interaction with Joey being critical to discovering solutions, as well as the ability to control other characters along the way. As the game progressed, the story gathered depth and increasingly engaged my curiousity rather than feeling like I was just doing things to get to the end. The story as a whole left more of a complete story like a decent movie in my mind and in fact it would probably be entertaining if they were to convert the entire Blackwell game series into a single movie or two. The story and dialogue was much stronger in this game. This game is definitely the strongest title in the entire series, however only if you include memory of all of the previous games having completed them previously as it is all ultimately one big story even though this final chapter is the more exciting of the series. As such, for anyone considering playing this I would have to recommend that they play all of the Blackwell games each in order before this one even though this one is the most fulfilling. Part of it's strength comes from the earlier character development and knowledge of what happened in the past in the previous games. All in all, for those who like a good detective adventure game series, the Blackwell games are mostly on the entertaining but average side of things, but Blackwell Epiphany ramps it up to make a much more exciting end to the story as a whole, with a lot of unexpected twists and turns along the way, especially at the ending which I totally did not see coming.
