I mean, more of them used guns as weapons than swords sooooo... seriously, the swords were *big* status symbols to an even greater degree than anime and movies would lead you to believe but they were very nearly never used in actual combat (or even particularly thought of as real weapons) whether you're using "samurai" to refer to a particularly trusted secretary who takes care of the actual day to day logistics and decisions of ruling a territory while the lord focuses on partying for the purposes of politics or it's a thousand years later and you're talking about a member of a mercenary group wandering around flipping between killing people for a cut of the local lord's tax money and cutting out the middleman with some good old banditry whenever they can't land a contract. ^there's no taboo against it or anything swords are just basically _never_ the weapon of choice outside of very specific circumstances which people to whom the term "samurai" applied almost never found themselves in, they used guns pretty extensively for a couple centuries though so, again, they would be more historically appropriate than swords by volume of use even if the time period is much shorter. bows were the big "this is my prowess as a soldier" cultural weapon even while guns were in common use in japan btw, so you're not just right you're more right than you appear to know.
@@evernewb2073 Guns only arrived in Japan when America started to interfere, so it depends what era you are talking about. You could argue that the intorduction of guns was the end of the Samurai all together. It was the equivilent of handing a gun to a medievil knight, of course he is going to throw the bow and sword away. I wouldn't compare a world war 1 officer with a duelling sword to a knight.
@@barryevans791 the heck are you talking about? there were factions producing them assembly line style clear back in the 1700ds, they looked more like someone replaced the bow parts of a crossbow with a miniature cannon but they were still decently functional guns.
@@themythicalpickle😊 As for a next run idea Can you beat cp2077 as a ninja Being able to use only knives and needing to do as much stealth as possible, adding your own twists and turns are also necessary ( like the honor thing mentioned here) Could be fun 🫡
Correct. But all of them pretended that firearms from the west are anti Japanese and would never admit using them. But yes everyone had them. It was just too much of a game changer
Samurai were mainly archers as well. Now thinking about it a cyber bow would be a cool addition. Like imagine a bow you need gorilla arms to pull and has a trigger to rev the draw string tight for more power. Hell have it fire tungston arrows to make it more extra. Secondary weapon being polearms so you probably had situations similar to medieval knights jousting. Get some cyber legs for speed and a pile bunker lance to bust through a borged out gonk and you're golden. Then get a heated katana as your 3rd weapon for when your bow is out of ammo and your lance is out of power.
Could’ve used the Tsunami Ashura, the single shot smart sniper If you can use it without the smart implant Or the comrades hammer as a sort of flintlock deal
The first time you ever play the game the arasaka heist is so exciting and shocking. After every other playthrough it is a horrible chore I deeply dread. I can't be the only one.
It’s a shame they had to shorten the beginning of the game. The cut scenes with Jackie were inspired by missions and hours of gameplay that were originally meant to lead up to his death. Don’t get me wrong, I love how the game is now and how they fixed everything, but you can tell from the dialogue and the available options that much more was planned. For example, the betrayal at the beginning with Evelyn and Dexter was supposed to allow you to choose between sticking with Dexter or betraying him for Evelyn, which would have significantly impacted the mission and its outcome.
I just got back into CP 2077 and started my first playthrough in patch 2.0 with the PL DLC. First build I made was what I called a "Bullet Time Samurai Netrunner" aaaand...damn I went hard into blades cuz come on. Swords are awesome. I also didnt know about some of the blades you showed in here so I even learned something. Solid vid bro. Keep up that good work!
Fun fact samurai did actually have pistols back during the time when gunpowder was introduced so using pistol weapons during this is allowed in fact long rifles would also be allowed as samurai also used long rifles
@@DrNeonGamingit’s honestly sad how much takemura cares about that family especially since you can see they view him as replaceable if you do the devil ending while he’s dead
@@kingteddieP4I've let Takemura die every time since playing through the Devil ending. Hearing him shill me on that contract, how I'm only "temporarily" giving arasaka ownership of my digital psyche, yadda yadda. Seeing him suckle right back onto the arasaka cock after being abandoned by them and hunted as a traitor disgusted me.
on my first and only playthrough of cyberpunk so far i almost only used a knife/katana after getting the knife from satori’s body then scalpel from the quest, and it is by far way cooler than using guns
Probably as soon as I found out where to get a katana in the game I switched up and decided to start being a ninja so now if I ever get the game again I'll probably go back to that spot and grab the katana when I get to the mission lol
imo, the Tanto knife and Kunai (I believe these are melee weapons, but I don't play Cyberpunk only watch it so i don't remember sry) should've been allowed bc these were weapon used by traditional samurai. They were never known to throw them, at least to my knowledge, but it would've been some extra variety, otherwise, legendary vid.
Id actually say that a samurai would have a lot of options for weapontraithe bat would resemble a samurai club. The knives would be similar to wakazashi which would be used in martial arts. They even started using guns nesr thr end of the samurais use.
i know its barely on topic but theoretically shouldnt alt be able to copy johnnys engram off the chip and soulkill v to overwrite him with, making v the chip's inhabitant and overwrite himself?
Ok I’m gonna stop at the 4:49min mark why didn’t you attack? To my knowledge samurai were allowed to punch so why didn’t you waste so much time? Plus you could of used grenades as they would of been around then and useable so I’m a little confused so far as to why nothing actually happened
would bows be allowed? they were the actual main weapon of a samurai, it's even why their armor looked the way it did! (all those big boxy shapes and panels sticking out make a HELL of a lot more sense when you think it through as armor for someone fighting with a bow in a group against a group of several someone else with a bow, ideally from horseback. also much like with knights and nearly every other mounted cavalry style people from any point in history in any geographic region with mounts (not just horses even!) they vastly preferred polearms as mele weapons. heck, even when using swords it was usually the short one that got used as an actual weapon not the long one since about the only situation where they used a sword in a non-ritualistic manner was during surprise self-defense situations which just so happened to occure in tight spaces WAY more often than a nice open area.
"Wake the fu- oh your awake"
8:40 to be fair many samurai used bows. While a handgun isn’t a bow you know gotta adapt with the times.
I mean, more of them used guns as weapons than swords sooooo...
seriously, the swords were *big* status symbols to an even greater degree than anime and movies would lead you to believe but they were very nearly never used in actual combat (or even particularly thought of as real weapons) whether you're using "samurai" to refer to a particularly trusted secretary who takes care of the actual day to day logistics and decisions of ruling a territory while the lord focuses on partying for the purposes of politics or it's a thousand years later and you're talking about a member of a mercenary group wandering around flipping between killing people for a cut of the local lord's tax money and cutting out the middleman with some good old banditry whenever they can't land a contract.
^there's no taboo against it or anything swords are just basically _never_ the weapon of choice outside of very specific circumstances which people to whom the term "samurai" applied almost never found themselves in, they used guns pretty extensively for a couple centuries though so, again, they would be more historically appropriate than swords by volume of use even if the time period is much shorter.
bows were the big "this is my prowess as a soldier" cultural weapon even while guns were in common use in japan btw, so you're not just right you're more right than you appear to know.
Oda Nobunaga used guns along with his men.
Yes but if you are literally faster than bullets, mostly bulletproof, can literally move in bullet time, you'd revert back to melee.
@@evernewb2073 Guns only arrived in Japan when America started to interfere, so it depends what era you are talking about. You could argue that the intorduction of guns was the end of the Samurai all together. It was the equivilent of handing a gun to a medievil knight, of course he is going to throw the bow and sword away. I wouldn't compare a world war 1 officer with a duelling sword to a knight.
@@barryevans791 the heck are you talking about? there were factions producing them assembly line style clear back in the 1700ds, they looked more like someone replaced the bow parts of a crossbow with a miniature cannon but they were still decently functional guns.
By the way at 6:24, you can initiate combat with maelstrom right away by not sitting on the couch when Dum Dum tells you too for future reference
underated channel wth
you deserve more love
amazing video! keep it up
Thank You bro! I really appreciate that 🤙
@@themythicalpickle😊
As for a next run idea
Can you beat cp2077 as a ninja
Being able to use only knives and needing to do as much stealth as possible, adding your own twists and turns are also necessary ( like the honor thing mentioned here)
Could be fun 🫡
btw samurais used guns as soon as they got their hands on them so technically you can use guns to make a samurai build in Cyberpunk
cyberpunk samurai build but i just play the game normally
Need a tanegashima. 1 shot mag with a long reload but slaps anything it actually hits.
Correct. But all of them pretended that firearms from the west are anti Japanese and would never admit using them. But yes everyone had them. It was just too much of a game changer
Samurai were mainly archers as well. Now thinking about it a cyber bow would be a cool addition. Like imagine a bow you need gorilla arms to pull and has a trigger to rev the draw string tight for more power. Hell have it fire tungston arrows to make it more extra. Secondary weapon being polearms so you probably had situations similar to medieval knights jousting. Get some cyber legs for speed and a pile bunker lance to bust through a borged out gonk and you're golden. Then get a heated katana as your 3rd weapon for when your bow is out of ammo and your lance is out of power.
Could’ve used the Tsunami Ashura, the single shot smart sniper
If you can use it without the smart implant
Or the comrades hammer as a sort of flintlock deal
The first time you ever play the game the arasaka heist is so exciting and shocking. After every other playthrough it is a horrible chore I deeply dread. I can't be the only one.
Then the bd and the Johnny thing… it’s all sooooo tedious
yeah same, i love to replay this game to make new builds, but playing the intro is sooo tedious
It’s a shame they had to shorten the beginning of the game. The cut scenes with Jackie were inspired by missions and hours of gameplay that were originally meant to lead up to his death. Don’t get me wrong, I love how the game is now and how they fixed everything, but you can tell from the dialogue and the available options that much more was planned. For example, the betrayal at the beginning with Evelyn and Dexter was supposed to allow you to choose between sticking with Dexter or betraying him for Evelyn, which would have significantly impacted the mission and its outcome.
What all the starts say about being a samurai
Street Kid- in it for the money
Corpo- in it for the honor
Nomad- in it for the heck of it
Basically peasent becoming samurai, noble becoming samurai, and ronin becoming samurai
I just got back into CP 2077 and started my first playthrough in patch 2.0 with the PL DLC. First build I made was what I called a "Bullet Time Samurai Netrunner" aaaand...damn I went hard into blades cuz come on. Swords are awesome. I also didnt know about some of the blades you showed in here so I even learned something.
Solid vid bro. Keep up that good work!
HANK! DONT ABBrREVIATE CYBERPUNK!
I HIGHLY recommend the "More Iconic Blades" mod. Adds 30+ Katanas and 40+ Tantos. Very fun mod.
@@Laminity sadly I'm only on PS5 so I can't mod lol
You should do a ninja run in star field. Requirements being the Ryjun quest line, only using the ninja themed weapons and weapons that ryjun makes
A-ra-sa-ka
Sa-to-ri
Ta-ke (keh)-mu-ra
Ha-na-ko
Technically, the Johnny part isnt a run fail because you are playing as a Samurai
Fun fact samurai did actually have pistols back during the time when gunpowder was introduced so using pistol weapons during this is allowed in fact long rifles would also be allowed as samurai also used long rifles
Fun fact: Samurai also used muskets and matchlock pistols.
I always feel like the nomad path fits a ronin type samurai. Corpo also fits the way of the samurai as well
I always do corpo samurai
Wake up Samurai We have an honor code to keep
Why was takemura so mad? You kept Oda alive, AND saved him!
I know right!? 😂
If you don't do the Devil ending, Hanako dies in the assault on Arasaka Tower
@@DrNeonGamingit’s honestly sad how much takemura cares about that family especially since you can see they view him as replaceable if you do the devil ending while he’s dead
@@kingteddieP4I've let Takemura die every time since playing through the Devil ending. Hearing him shill me on that contract, how I'm only "temporarily" giving arasaka ownership of my digital psyche, yadda yadda. Seeing him suckle right back onto the arasaka cock after being abandoned by them and hunted as a traitor disgusted me.
"Wake the duck up S A M U R A I"
Samurai knew hand to hand combat
Bro took “Wake the fuck up Samurai” too literally and I love it XD
im a mythical pickle morty a mythical pickle
"I HAVE GOD & ANIME ON MY SIDE."
*pulls out revolver* and I got iron boah!
Great job!
Thanks Mike, good to see you again!
Got to do a john wick run
6:26 just don't tell Jack to sit. Starts combat
yes with ease. that was one of my play throughs was katana and throwing knife.
on my first and only playthrough of cyberpunk so far i almost only used a knife/katana after getting the knife from satori’s body then scalpel from the quest, and it is by far way cooler than using guns
18:28 still as buggy as ever but is comical enough that it isnt a problem 😂
Historically samurai used rifles. So gun sections are fine
What’s the song during the Adam smasher boss fight, been trying to find it but no luck so thought I’d ask.
Wake up samurai, we have a game to play.
Idk if this was done on the big update but if not you absolutely should as the entire skill tree has been reworked
Probably as soon as I found out where to get a katana in the game I switched up and decided to start being a ninja so now if I ever get the game again I'll probably go back to that spot and grab the katana when I get to the mission lol
Ninjas did work in shadows not samurai
Curious, what did your final build look like? I wanna try out a katana run myself
imo, the Tanto knife and Kunai (I believe these are melee weapons, but I don't play Cyberpunk only watch it so i don't remember sry) should've been allowed bc these were weapon used by traditional samurai. They were never known to throw them, at least to my knowledge, but it would've been some extra variety, otherwise, legendary vid.
Theres no Kunai, but theres two throwable Tanto.
@ yeah… thought so… =(
missed opportunity to not be the Seattle samurai
Id actually say that a samurai would have a lot of options for weapontraithe bat would resemble a samurai club. The knives would be similar to wakazashi which would be used in martial arts. They even started using guns nesr thr end of the samurais use.
What is a directly damaging prek?
So I guess we are just making a ghostrunner
Can you win using the way of the warrior, yes, yes you can. Also burning blade hot.
i would love to play this game as a samurai😍
wish i had a big mythical pickle like you do 😥😥😥😥😥😥
I don't need to watch this because I currently am playing through in this manner and the answer is yes. Also I love byakko. Best sword
i-i’m about to cuuu-
At maelstrom can’t you just let the timer run out and then They attack?
Everyone is forgetting about the kanabo a spiked club that was used by some samurai.
i know its barely on topic but theoretically shouldnt alt be able to copy johnnys engram off the chip and soulkill v to overwrite him with, making v the chip's inhabitant and overwrite himself?
Now that sounds like a great loophole to get V to show up in a sequel. Sort of died, but not really. And now immortal because of the chip.
To get the satori katana do you need the dlc?
No you just need to grab it from the jet and you got it but if you missed it and want it you can buy it from a merchant in the dlc
Whats the difficulty setting on the challenge?
Ok I’m gonna stop at the 4:49min mark why didn’t you attack? To my knowledge samurai were allowed to punch so why didn’t you waste so much time? Plus you could of used grenades as they would of been around then and useable so I’m a little confused so far as to why nothing actually happened
No perks but what about preks?
why is PERKS misspelled or am i crazy opening intro?
would bows be allowed? they were the actual main weapon of a samurai, it's even why their armor looked the way it did! (all those big boxy shapes and panels sticking out make a HELL of a lot more sense when you think it through as armor for someone fighting with a bow in a group against a group of several someone else with a bow, ideally from horseback.
also much like with knights and nearly every other mounted cavalry style people from any point in history in any geographic region with mounts (not just horses even!) they vastly preferred polearms as mele weapons.
heck, even when using swords it was usually the short one that got used as an actual weapon not the long one since about the only situation where they used a sword in a non-ritualistic manner was during surprise self-defense situations which just so happened to occure in tight spaces WAY more often than a nice open area.
Man I get street kid is the most popular background but nomad is literally a ronin. How can you tell me street kid is the most similar background.
Corpo would have been the correct life path. Samurai were nobility and not gutter rats. Also apparently Samurai did not use Tantos?
why you pronounce it takemara?
Streetkid is actually the least samurai
The best katana in the game is from side quests
Ghost of tsushima 2077
My brother from another jar!
Wait I thought you were like famous while watching this video?? How aren't you??
Haha Maybe one day!
I run 3 throwing knives and I don't have a cyberware weapon I think you can do it
Found my long lost brother
Try the sandy and biyakko
I'm not even watching.
Katana run is the easiest thing ever, the answer is yes.
yep. My build - katana + 2 throwing knives
You can't NOT play this game as a Samurai!
Easily