@@DXFromYT Good to see you again. I was afraid that you might have dropped your channel for good or something happened to you. Two UA-camrs I knew went to the war in the Ukraine (one for Ukraine, that is CrazyFrench, the second for Russia, that is UguCyugaHa) and apparently both of them got killed in action. And there's this COVID whole thing... Glad you're alright.
This is probably the best video/review I've seen about Cyberpunk 2077 to this day, I'll go even further and say it's the closest to my own thoughts about it. You just described everything I love about it and how I felt (still feel) after playing and finishing it multiple times. And while it's often just a support for a game or to add to the ambiance, but I consider the sound and music in Cyberpunk 2077 to be fully part of the world and immersion, more over and being a metalhead since I was a teenager it's the first time I feel a game truly understands what diverse music taste look like with the multiple radio stations covering almost all music genre going from metal to rock, pop to electro, rap to nighclub, ... etc
Holy crap, I made it half way into this video and decided to take up the offer. I played cyberpunk, played through all the ending and game back. I'm so glad I saw this videogame. I can't describe it. It's my favorite game. The music, the dialogue, I can't believe how blind I was
I’m one of the few people who liked cyberpunk day 1. I was there defending it like crazy because I fell in love with the game. The game released at a time in my life where I down and just tired of life. I didn’t believe I had meaning or mattered. But when I played and beat cyberpunk and (mistakenly) gotten the suicide ending, it completely changed my life. I began to understand myself and the value I have in the world. How much I mattered to the people around me and the value of appreciating the little things. It gave me a new lease on life that I needed. Idk if my outlook on the game would’ve been different if I wasn’t in that headspace around that time but I thank CDPR. It makes me super happy seeing the turn around on this game and more people giving it a shot. CDPR did deserve the chewing out they got, I’m just super happy they didn’t give up on the game and worked to improve it
I also enjoyed it shortly after release, didn't encounter that many bugs but flawed features were sort of annoying me especially when those things were that easy to fix. But I installed a better vehicle driving mod, better driving minimap mod, some crafting fixes and maybe some other small fixes and it was much better. Those things didn't ruin the game for me since it had a lot of very strong sides that those little things couldn't have ruined it for me. But the fact that those things were so easy to fix were bothering me, the fact that modders fixed it day one made it weird that CDPR released it like that. It's good that you don't need those mods anymore and that more people can enjoy the game now, for some those things might have ruined the experience. I'm glad that people can enjoy it now like I did, it was a shame that some people gave up on the game and missed out.
I played cyberpunk about a month ago after all the negative reception and my mind was blown. I was shocked at how much I cared about the story and characters after all the negative press the game got. It’s in my top 5 RPGs ever now truly a 10 out of 10 experience for me
Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:48 Act 1: The City of Dreams 9:17 Act 2: Holes in the Sun 14:12 Act 3: Humanity 19:00 Act 4: The Reaper (SPOILERS FOR ALL ENDINGS) 28:26 Outro
Thanks. I was going to add these natively to the video (and will this Sunday) but I forgot and it was already like 3 AM. UA-cam doesn't like when you change descriptions a week within the upload date so I can't add them until after Saturday.
Six playthroughs, testing different builds, Creating a character to fit the game, and enjoying the incredible story... This game hasn't grown old or stale on me yet despite the bugs & Glitches, I love how deep the story is. Also, Judy & Panam are the best girls of the game.
@Siberian Well, you could argue that he is also featuring other female characters that you can't romance. There are a lot of female characters in the game that people like and would want to see a romance option with and they might be some people's favorite
@@strikingdiscussion5263 You're delusional if you think anything you typed was constructive or even sensical in the context of this video but you're free to have your deluded egotistical thoughts.
@@DXFromYT your review sucked, get over it redittor. I am sure you loved your experience as a gay dude in le cybermeme and female V pushing your LGBT propaganda
Incredibly well freaking said man, love this game and listening to certain music from the game yanks me back to the emotions I felt during my first playthrough
I got the game on sale a little less than a year after its launch. It has quickly become one of my favorite games ever. I have over 600hrs on it and I still go back and play
You brought it to rhe point. Cyberpunk for me is an expierence. You cannot describe it in its fullest, but it is so easy to emerge yourself in a 70-80hour run and still miss so much about the city, or find new things returning as a (new) V, going through every possibility. It's rare that a videogame pulls me in it like that. I will defend that game with everything I have. It made me love, hate, cry, cheer and so much more for everyone I meet in that virtual world. The music is so well thought through and always fits to the situation one might find themselves in and I always enjoy a good Samurai track when it comes up on my playlist
This is a really impressive video. Most UA-camrs would just record a generic narration and fill the screen with random gameplay clips. You took the time to record countless cinematic shots of Night City and immersive "noHUD" gameplay sections. You also made professional montages that capture the essence of the game. I think I am qualified more than most people to say "amazing job". I wish more gaming creators were ambitious with their videos and took their time to make them feel cinematic, like you did with this video. About the game itself: Cyberpunk started as a complete mess. At launch it was buggy, unfinished and lacking features that were advertised. I even made a video back then to mock the game by confronting it with devs' promises. A few months ago I gave Cyberpunk a second chance. I installed the newest updates, got a few PC mods to enhance the experience and played through the game on my new PC in 4K. And I have to say, I was very pleasantly surprised. I now think Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the greatest open-world games I've ever seen. It still has a few technical quirks (for example I wish that draw distance was better and the traffic was smoother) but it's extremely immersive and well-made overall. The city is absolutely beautiful, the story is very strong, the supporting characters are very interesting, the combat is fun as hell, driving is suprisingly good (althrough it requires getting used to) and the attention to details is insane. Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the most immersive gaming experiences I've ever had. It just requires a certain level of dedication from the player to fully appreciate it. In my humble opinion, this game shines when you take it seriously and try to role play as V. When you follow the traffic rules, walk through the city instead of running and approach combat scenarios slowly, this game feels like a movie. A lot of this beauty is lost when you blast through the game like it's GTA. If you drive like a maniac everywhere and never take the time to stop and look around, the game loses a lot of its charm. So my advice is this: play this game slowly and take your time. Don't rush through it because you will do yourself a big disservice. Instead, try to role play as V, take the game seriously and even put some extra restrictions on yourself for a bigger challenge (for example try to complete "theft missions" without harming anyone of ever being spotted).
I love seeing positive Cyberpunk videos now. I absolutely love the game and world, it had a terrible launch hut CDPR didn’t give up on it and it’s so much fun now
I loved Cyberpunk 2077, despite all the noise surrounding its admittedly shakey launch. The story was engaging, companions interesting (i love Panem), and the combat was frantic fun. Even Keanu Reeves grew on me as Johnny. I was surprised by how much he was in the game. Expected a glorified cameo but hes in most side quests chatting with you as well. I'm sad CD Projeckt Red had to waste 2 years putting out fires and we still have to wait till next year for new story content.
man at least GUNS worked on release. imagine my shock when Battlefield 2042 had worse feeling gunplay on release than Cyberpunk. 2042 has always felt shit to play to though, even now. glad i didn't waste money on it. i applaud CDPR for at least taking risks. game was always good tho. and that's coming from someone who played through it on a PS4. might be biased since it came out on my birthday lol.
Totally agree about Keanu. I was annoyed about how big a deal people were making his inclusion out to be at the time. I didn't give a shit about some big Hollywood actor being in the game and just thought the game wouldn't have taken so long to come out if they didn't feel the need to cast him. After playing the game though, I'm really glad he was in the game. Keanu as Johnny is probably my favorite role of his ever. I got so attached to Johnny as the game went on and thought he was an amazing character. He gave an amazing performance and I was really glad they proved me wrong.
@@randchuck2492 Game really wouldn't be the same without that close relationship with Johnny, I also expected it to be a much smaller role or it being featured only in the main quest. The fact that Johnny appears in so many moments that aren't tied to the main quest at all, commenting on different things you see in the world is incredible. I was genuinely surprised how many lines of dialogue he has and how he comments on pretty much everything to do, I expected him to mostly be featured in the main quest and nothing else.
@@januszkurahenowski2860thing is silver hand has a lesser role in the original script, the reason why he appears everywhere even as you’re walking down the street is because Keanu push CDPR to make Jonny a bigger role, hell Keanu wasn’t even going to be in the game, the executives wanted a big Hollywood star to secure sales and the team pretty much had to scrapped a lot of content because of it, the game was literally remade in 2 years, that’s why there’s a lot of glitches and missing features, now they announce a sequel and I hope this time they truly take their 5 to 7 years to polish and include everything that was left out in this game. The story was great but the gameplay not so much Source: Reddit
This is the perfect essay as to why Cyberpunk 2077 is the most expansive and diverse RPG ever constructed. It’s been my favorite game since I beat it and I’m so happy people are coming around and realizing just how much a colossal masterpiece this game really is. Your editing was also superb and the cherry on top. Thanks for your content DX!
Let's be fair here. People aren't so much "coming around and realizing"... More like CDPR, through a steady flow of patches, has finally realized their vision for 2077. And people are finally able to appreciate that vision.
The fact of the matter is, both the game, and edgerunners, are beautiful works of art. CDPR and Studio Trigger, both for the game and anime, built night city into something I fell in love with, and im forever grateful for them.
Never even considered playing cyberpunk because of the bad launch. It is interesting to see how much work went into it. How it's so inperfect yet so perfect. This video is so well made, good job man.
@@juantimer it wasn't the game really was horrendous to say the least at launch it just got better now but for your point no it wasn't wrong it just didn't deliver as promised which in some planets they call it fraud
I was obsessed with the game when I first started playing it. I put in countless hours just looking around, reading shards, taking in the atmosphere, just driving everywhere until I actually memorized the streets. I just felt so invested in stories of V, Johnny, Panam, Judy, River and Kerry. I think this had some of the best “companion” content I’ve seen in a game.
Dude, you have absolutely outdone yourself with this video. Love the perspective brought to this analysis, let alone your high quality video presentation.
This sums up everything I felt when going through it on release and it’s all coming back now that I literally just started another playthrough this week. There’s just SO much the game has to give. The music, the characters, each of the little and big moments, and all in all like you said, the feels. God I really can’t wait for that DLC to come.
I'm not even religious in real life, but the game conveys how important it is to Joshua, i cannot deny his request seeing how much he believes in his "mission" it's so well done it's unbelievable.
@@Leandro7470 yeah! I'm personally Christian myself and despite the... chaotic nature of the game, the end of that quest that briefly gave V a chance to have faith was very moving, especially with the setting and endings to the game :)
Great Video! I liked at the start you said that "it feels like it was constructed by real people" which is true! they got real architects to oversee the design of night city and it shows. Loved the video DX
This is by far the best review I have seen of all the positives this game has and is overshadowed by issues many had at release. You have brilliantly described the word of Night City and its inhabitants with such care and faithfulness to what they are. Thank you for that. It's rare to find one that is willing and able to show to love that was put into this game from Mike Pondsmith all the way to the designers of 2077. As one who has at current 1167 hours (man that's crazy) into this game and my next highest is 43 hours I find myself constantly finding something new in the game still, and it's amazing.
It took me a while to really have cyberpunk hook me, hell, I took a nearly 2 year break between release and when I finished it, and when I did…it hit me harder than I ever would have thought.
650+ hours in. Night City is my favorite open world and one of my all time favorite locations in any fiction. Every couple of months, i miss being in this city so i start a playtrough and when i do, it feels like home.
I remember when I was downloading on the game on GOG the day it came out as I was watching the whole of Twitch and UA-cam playing the game. Moistcritical, Jacksepticeye, Pewdiepie, xQc, and many others playing it. It was like I was playing the dream, the most anticipated thing in any medium since Harry Potter was in my freaking hands. I was floored, what a feeling it was. Breathtaking. I caved in my room and played it for four straight days, cried my eyes out, then went online to see some people shitting on it. I was like wtf is going on. The game worked for me with minor bugs that you usually would find in any major and minor video game. I was fortunate. Then saw people asking CDPR to bring Jackie back for some reason. I was wondering if I misunderstood the game. Never was familiar with the cyberpunk genre beforehand, but I totally realized that NC would win, and win hard, no matter what. Jackie's death was a cautionary tale. But people still demanded the montage to be playable with Jackie. I missed him, like everyone, which was the goal of his intro, but he drew his fate from the very minute he introduced you to Dex and T-Bug. And I ended up drinking to Johnny Silverhand at the end of the game instead. Characters were unreal... I mean, believable.. You know what I mean. Then the Edgerunners anime came out and I saw everyone echoing Silverhand's words, "A happy ending, in this city, for people like us? Wrong city." I'm glad the game came back to the spotlight now. An amazing journey that I still remember two years later. Time for a replay this Christmas before Phantom Liberty comes along.
And THANK YOU for acknowledging how mind blowing the city is. It is a REAL CITY. I’ve explored every inch. No other game so dense and detailed. Takes maybe 100+ hours to explore everything because most locations are not even used in missions.
I thoroughly enjoyed this game. And I’m so excited for the DLC! The ending made me fucking depressed, so I’ll be glad to go on more adventures with Johnny and V.
I outta agree, this has quickly become my favorite PC story based game. Not only is it unique in combat builds, a visually stunning open world, updated with proper difficulty, iconic characters, but one of the most intimate main-character developments to bond with the player of the uncertainty and bittersweet finite experience that is real life, and facing our inevitable deaths. The biggest lesson in each of these endings, is to chose how you’ll spend your last moments head on.
It has countless flaws, unfinished features everywhere, and enough crashes and random bugs to make anyone scratch their head. But it also has so goddamn much soul that it makes up for it. It's the first mainstream AAA game since the original Deus Ex which understands and nails the genre.
Fantastic review and i 100% agree so far. In fact it's so good, I have to put it on pause while I do a few more run throughs so nothing gets spoiled. And I had almost 400 hours on the first run through! I played on PC so the game didn't have many glitches and was breathtaking even before I built a new machine to fully appreciate the gorgeous graphics. The funny thing is, the game hasn't changed that much since launch, so all the negative reception was unfair.
I've loved the game since it's initial launch, was a blast of unpolished immersive fun. Glad it is being recognized as a great game by someone like DX.
I feel you for the endings. People say that the Aldecaldo ending is the best, but personally I felt the pain of having Bob, Ted, and Saul die for V. That's why I love the Don't Fear The Reaper ending. You don't lose anyone who trusts you. Great perspective of the game BTW. I think what some people seem to forget is how many different playstyles there are when it comes to defeating goons.
Well thought out and brilliantly presented. Cyberpunk is one of my favoutites too, it and Path of Exile are the main games I have played over the last two years. I keeping finding myself trying "just one more build", probably over 30 by now with at least 8 complete playthroughs and all the endings.
This is the best unpaid advertisement of a game I have ever watched. I already completed the game, but if I hadn’t beforehand? You would have sold me completely. I had some performance issues with the game because of weak GPU and lack of an SSD. Regardless, I found the story to be unlike anything else I’ve ever read / watched / played, and that alone was enough to make it my favorite game of all time. I will one day revisit this game and be just as astonished then as I am now.
U really articulate so well exactly what I feel about this game .. the combat, the world, the varied builds, the characters, the mission design and storytelling.. all combine together to make a one of a kind video game
lol was playing cyberpunk when i got the notification for this video. hands down your best vid i loved the presentation, graphics, music, the cinematic shots & the weapon montages all top tier. & I fully agree about the endings i always felt bad that somebody was gonna die helping me on the final mission but gonna work on that secret ending on my next playthrough
Man the shit u said in the 2nd half was so spot on.. how the game makes u feel about the characters just by hanging out with them and how they emote so well.
Of all the universes I've experienced the Cyberpunk genres has always captivated me. Especially CDPR's Cyberpunk 2077's Night City, then the attraction grew even stronger with Trigger's Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Couldn’t have explained it better myself. Your description of this game is one of the best ones I have seen so far on UA-cam. That alone just earned you a new subscriber👍
First time viewer here. You hit every point perfectly about how immersive this game is and I think it's important to communicate that is when this game is so easily overlooked with the shortcomings of CDPR. But at the same time, they crafted this game with attention to detail and care.
OMG! Great video! Loved it! Cyberpunk 2077 is amazing in every aspect! I need to play it again, and i think the time is now! Thanks to this incredible video! Pawel Sasko in his twitch channel talked about it, so here i'm haha' congrats on the video, it's amazing!
We had very similar experiences and observations and obsessions with Cyberpunk, which makes me absolutely ecstatic. I got lucky and had a pretty big free build day one- I work in game development specifically in character concept and storytelling, and was hearing nonstop chatter at my college the month of its release. I saw the nastiness of it- but no one was seeing how there were so many aspects in its story and how it tells it that just makes it some of the best world building I’ve ever experienced. I’ve never been as immersed in a game as I have in this game- and despite the ways it failed, I really believe the storytelling and exposition this game presents that I think sets an excellent standard of how you can explore worlds that do not exist within games. Thank you for such a great video and sharing the love and excitement that can be found in this game, as someone in that industry, it warms my heart hearing the ways games have impacted people. The artists and developers that built this game really loved it- and it 100% shows.
Great video 👍this is the what I've been looking for since I've finished the game myself a few weeks ago. While there are some cool essays and explorations of the game out there, a LOT of them can be overly long and tangential, and the discourse focuses majorly on the technical launch of the game and what the game isn't rather than the game itself. What you've made is very concise but still hits all the aspects on why the game is so impressive and moving. Thank you for making this.
i can't remember the last time i was so obsessed with a ...with any kind of media,to be honest. Maybe Mass Effect? I loved Cyberpunk 2077 since day one,pre-patch,bug riddden,broken. and kinda clunky. The fact that i bought a game that i cannot run comfortably and i didn't mind that at all shows how much i loved it.
Great vid, one thing missing though, a warning to be in a good place in yourself before playing it. I had recently lost an old friend to depression and a broken heart, I dove into the last part of the game as a distraction after his memorial service. The cooperate with arasaka ending which felt like the right thing at the time was so traumatic. I was not prepared for a video game to be so deeply moving and effective at making you feel. Grief is a really difficult thing to deal with.
Boy that outro was something else! I loved that Never fade away remix when I heard it during the Sun ending. BTW This is the only video I have seen, that describes the immersive sim like pathways we can take. Love this game and this video on it!
I bought Cyberpunk on a whim for about half price a few weeks after it came out, and figured it'd be a decent and fun little escape but nothing to take too seriously given how broken everyone made it sound. While my reasons aren't the same, it also became one of my all-time favorites as well (nothing will touch Halo 3 for me) and I rarely replay games as often as I revisit this game. I grew up playing older games so the occasional glitch and bug doesn't bother me- the world, the city, the lore, all of it is so perfect. This game is masterfully crafted and it's a damn shame some people never gave it a chance
wow this review is so cool! I love the game too and I am happy somebody can put together a video review like this to tell everyone that this game is awesome!!!!!
I pre-ordered this game for my Xbox One S. I set up my character, but heard so much bad stuff I never played it. Then when the next Gen update came out for PS5, I decided to give it a shot. I chose to be a Nomad, played a fair few hours but some reason, I wasn’t really enjoying myself and gave up on a mission where your hacking cameras in someone’s apartment, basically I got stuck. Then earlier today, I started playing again. I choose to be a Street Kid this time, absolutely loved the intro and finished the first mission where your saving the girl in the tub. I don’t know what changed, but this game seems like a absolute masterpiece & I can’t wait to get stuck in even more!
I still remember watching a twitchstreamer that played CP2077. It was a great time and everything ran good, almost no crashes or the like. Guess the streamer was just very lucky.
Edgerunners brought me back to this game. Had it pre ordered and played it on day 1. I thought to myself to just wait for the devs to fix the bugs before playing again and then edgerunners came out. Now I can't stop playing it
Wow! This is one of the best and most positive reviews of this game I have seen. Seems you followed some of the same journeys and got the same feelings that I have in my play throughs of this game and I too found that the secret ending is my favorite. I have played through with every life path, male and femaile and each ending. I have found that the Nomad life path with the femail V and the secret ending is my favorte and have played it several times. I have played the game since it's release and have over 1600 hours in it and it just keeps getting better. I look forward to each patch that comes up and can't wait for the expansion which I expect it to make it even better. I have started play throughs of other games and keep coming back to this one before finishing the other game. I guess I am addicted to the way that Cyberpunk has grabbed me and I can't find the same the feeling in any other games.
Odd how I finished every possible ending about 3 days ago, had the same thought process, and now find this video of a guy having a similar experience to mine so close to each other. Absolutely agree with everything u said here choom. Great video
Despite it's infamous launch, it deserved a 2nd chance and Edgerunners made it possible. Not to mention the music was a banger. Live as Nobody or Blaze of Glory really influenced how I live my life.
CDPR understand the importance of World building or connection with the Characters you interact with. I love the Fact that every person you interact with feels like an interactive cutscene.
Superb video. Couldn’t have put it any better myself. Cyberpunk is one of the few games that obsessed me in its world and it’s people, and the only game to do it to the extent that it did. The game is undeniably flawed, yet an absolute masterpiece of storytelling and world building.
Bless. This was my favourite game of this year as well. Played it to death. 5-6 playthroughs on different methods. Swords, fists, assault, hacking, stealth and my first playthrough of just picking whatever! I plan to redo it as a shotgun when the expansion drops.
The art for my intro, this video's thumbnail and the title card was done by artist Azuma Yasuo. Check them out here! twitter.com/AzumaYasuo96
No more livestreams?
Streaming may be in the cards for the future, not sure.
@@DXFromYT Good to see you again. I was afraid that you might have dropped your channel for good or something happened to you. Two UA-camrs I knew went to the war in the Ukraine (one for Ukraine, that is CrazyFrench, the second for Russia, that is UguCyugaHa) and apparently both of them got killed in action. And there's this COVID whole thing... Glad you're alright.
@@DXFromYT No rush my dude~
One thing is not distopian in NC. It has extreme walkability.
This is probably the best video/review I've seen about Cyberpunk 2077 to this day, I'll go even further and say it's the closest to my own thoughts about it. You just described everything I love about it and how I felt (still feel) after playing and finishing it multiple times.
And while it's often just a support for a game or to add to the ambiance, but I consider the sound and music in Cyberpunk 2077 to be fully part of the world and immersion, more over and being a metalhead since I was a teenager it's the first time I feel a game truly understands what diverse music taste look like with the multiple radio stations covering almost all music genre going from metal to rock, pop to electro, rap to nighclub, ... etc
Holy crap, I made it half way into this video and decided to take up the offer. I played cyberpunk, played through all the ending and game back.
I'm so glad I saw this videogame. I can't describe it. It's my favorite game.
The music, the dialogue, I can't believe how blind I was
Glad you liked it!!!
You watched half a UA-cam video, bought a game, completed a 30-hour campaign, and remember to come back and finish the video? I'm impressed.
I’m one of the few people who liked cyberpunk day 1. I was there defending it like crazy because I fell in love with the game. The game released at a time in my life where I down and just tired of life. I didn’t believe I had meaning or mattered. But when I played and beat cyberpunk and (mistakenly) gotten the suicide ending, it completely changed my life. I began to understand myself and the value I have in the world. How much I mattered to the people around me and the value of appreciating the little things. It gave me a new lease on life that I needed. Idk if my outlook on the game would’ve been different if I wasn’t in that headspace around that time but I thank CDPR. It makes me super happy seeing the turn around on this game and more people giving it a shot. CDPR did deserve the chewing out they got, I’m just super happy they didn’t give up on the game and worked to improve it
You weren't one of the few. The majority of people liked it. The crybabies were the overwhelmingly vocal minority.
I also enjoyed it shortly after release, didn't encounter that many bugs but flawed features were sort of annoying me especially when those things were that easy to fix. But I installed a better vehicle driving mod, better driving minimap mod, some crafting fixes and maybe some other small fixes and it was much better. Those things didn't ruin the game for me since it had a lot of very strong sides that those little things couldn't have ruined it for me. But the fact that those things were so easy to fix were bothering me, the fact that modders fixed it day one made it weird that CDPR released it like that. It's good that you don't need those mods anymore and that more people can enjoy the game now, for some those things might have ruined the experience. I'm glad that people can enjoy it now like I did, it was a shame that some people gave up on the game and missed out.
i bought the game for story and its was worth it
I loved it day 1 as well. I defended the game but not the CDPR leadership.
One of my favorite games ever since it first launched
I played cyberpunk about a month ago after all the negative reception and my mind was blown. I was shocked at how much I cared about the story and characters after all the negative press the game got. It’s in my top 5 RPGs ever now truly a 10 out of 10 experience for me
It's Meh dude, they're other cbverpunk like games that are better than this, it doesn't have much depth
Cyberpunk 2077 is in Wikipedia's list of video games notable for negative reception.
really?
@@PrinceZakariyya this game is shit
@@dbunik44 Instead of being annoying, you should include examples of those bettee games
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:48 Act 1: The City of Dreams
9:17 Act 2: Holes in the Sun
14:12 Act 3: Humanity
19:00 Act 4: The Reaper (SPOILERS FOR ALL ENDINGS)
28:26 Outro
this should be pinned
What's the name of the outro music?
Thanks. I was going to add these natively to the video (and will this Sunday) but I forgot and it was already like 3 AM. UA-cam doesn't like when you change descriptions a week within the upload date so I can't add them until after Saturday.
Thanks for spoiler alert which should have done by the uploader instead.
I watched this and thought to myself: HE GETS IT! HE TOTALLY GETS IT!
Yeah that was me the whole time too.
Thank you for this beutiful video my choom
Six playthroughs, testing different builds, Creating a character to fit the game, and enjoying the incredible story... This game hasn't grown old or stale on me yet despite the bugs & Glitches, I love how deep the story is.
Also, Judy & Panam are the best girls of the game.
@Siberian Well, you could argue that he is also featuring other female characters that you can't romance. There are a lot of female characters in the game that people like and would want to see a romance option with and they might be some people's favorite
@N7 Andy Young or Old? Because both are great
I like the Joytoy in Japan Town better ;p
Rogue was also one of them.
I would totally bang Panam.
You know a video on UA-cam is good when you can't finish it because of work, school, appointments, etc, but yet still come back to watch it later.
Why does this review have only 7xx something likes? This is a very thoughtful, well put-together analysis of this game and deserves way more coverage.
@@strikingdiscussion5263 Holy shit, you're braindead.
@@strikingdiscussion5263 You're delusional if you think anything you typed was constructive or even sensical in the context of this video but you're free to have your deluded egotistical thoughts.
@@DXFromYT your review sucked, get over it redittor. I am sure you loved your experience as a gay dude in le cybermeme and female V pushing your LGBT propaganda
@@GLKHD Keep crying lmao
I just wish it wasn’t so short, right when you really fall in love with it the game gets cut short
Incredibly well freaking said man, love this game and listening to certain music from the game yanks me back to the emotions I felt during my first playthrough
The best surprise for me was the little messages you get from your friends even after their storyline is complete. Got excited every time.
I got the game on sale a little less than a year after its launch. It has quickly become one of my favorite games ever. I have over 600hrs on it and I still go back and play
You brought it to rhe point. Cyberpunk for me is an expierence. You cannot describe it in its fullest, but it is so easy to emerge yourself in a 70-80hour run and still miss so much about the city, or find new things returning as a (new) V, going through every possibility. It's rare that a videogame pulls me in it like that. I will defend that game with everything I have. It made me love, hate, cry, cheer and so much more for everyone I meet in that virtual world.
The music is so well thought through and always fits to the situation one might find themselves in and I always enjoy a good Samurai track when it comes up on my playlist
This is a really impressive video. Most UA-camrs would just record a generic narration and fill the screen with random gameplay clips. You took the time to record countless cinematic shots of Night City and immersive "noHUD" gameplay sections. You also made professional montages that capture the essence of the game. I think I am qualified more than most people to say "amazing job". I wish more gaming creators were ambitious with their videos and took their time to make them feel cinematic, like you did with this video.
About the game itself: Cyberpunk started as a complete mess. At launch it was buggy, unfinished and lacking features that were advertised. I even made a video back then to mock the game by confronting it with devs' promises. A few months ago I gave Cyberpunk a second chance. I installed the newest updates, got a few PC mods to enhance the experience and played through the game on my new PC in 4K. And I have to say, I was very pleasantly surprised. I now think Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the greatest open-world games I've ever seen. It still has a few technical quirks (for example I wish that draw distance was better and the traffic was smoother) but it's extremely immersive and well-made overall. The city is absolutely beautiful, the story is very strong, the supporting characters are very interesting, the combat is fun as hell, driving is suprisingly good (althrough it requires getting used to) and the attention to details is insane.
Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the most immersive gaming experiences I've ever had. It just requires a certain level of dedication from the player to fully appreciate it. In my humble opinion, this game shines when you take it seriously and try to role play as V. When you follow the traffic rules, walk through the city instead of running and approach combat scenarios slowly, this game feels like a movie. A lot of this beauty is lost when you blast through the game like it's GTA. If you drive like a maniac everywhere and never take the time to stop and look around, the game loses a lot of its charm. So my advice is this: play this game slowly and take your time. Don't rush through it because you will do yourself a big disservice. Instead, try to role play as V, take the game seriously and even put some extra restrictions on yourself for a bigger challenge (for example try to complete "theft missions" without harming anyone of ever being spotted).
I love seeing positive Cyberpunk videos now. I absolutely love the game and world, it had a terrible launch hut CDPR didn’t give up on it and it’s so much fun now
I loved Cyberpunk 2077, despite all the noise surrounding its admittedly shakey launch. The story was engaging, companions interesting (i love Panem), and the combat was frantic fun.
Even Keanu Reeves grew on me as Johnny. I was surprised by how much he was in the game. Expected a glorified cameo but hes in most side quests chatting with you as well. I'm sad CD Projeckt Red had to waste 2 years putting out fires and we still have to wait till next year for new story content.
man at least GUNS worked on release. imagine my shock when Battlefield 2042 had worse feeling gunplay on release than Cyberpunk. 2042 has always felt shit to play to though, even now. glad i didn't waste money on it. i applaud CDPR for at least taking risks.
game was always good tho. and that's coming from someone who played through it on a PS4. might be biased since it came out on my birthday lol.
Totally agree about Keanu. I was annoyed about how big a deal people were making his inclusion out to be at the time. I didn't give a shit about some big Hollywood actor being in the game and just thought the game wouldn't have taken so long to come out if they didn't feel the need to cast him. After playing the game though, I'm really glad he was in the game. Keanu as Johnny is probably my favorite role of his ever. I got so attached to Johnny as the game went on and thought he was an amazing character. He gave an amazing performance and I was really glad they proved me wrong.
@@randchuck2492 Game really wouldn't be the same without that close relationship with Johnny, I also expected it to be a much smaller role or it being featured only in the main quest. The fact that Johnny appears in so many moments that aren't tied to the main quest at all, commenting on different things you see in the world is incredible. I was genuinely surprised how many lines of dialogue he has and how he comments on pretty much everything to do, I expected him to mostly be featured in the main quest and nothing else.
@@januszkurahenowski2860thing is silver hand has a lesser role in the original script, the reason why he appears everywhere even as you’re walking down the street is because Keanu push CDPR to make Jonny a bigger role, hell Keanu wasn’t even going to be in the game, the executives wanted a big Hollywood star to secure sales and the team pretty much had to scrapped a lot of content because of it, the game was literally remade in 2 years, that’s why there’s a lot of glitches and missing features, now they announce a sequel and I hope this time they truly take their 5 to 7 years to polish and include everything that was left out in this game. The story was great but the gameplay not so much
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Another coomer lusting over Panam. Vincent is cucking you out.
This is the perfect essay as to why Cyberpunk 2077 is the most expansive and diverse RPG ever constructed. It’s been my favorite game since I beat it and I’m so happy people are coming around and realizing just how much a colossal masterpiece this game really is. Your editing was also superb and the cherry on top. Thanks for your content DX!
Let's be fair here. People aren't so much "coming around and realizing"... More like CDPR, through a steady flow of patches, has finally realized their vision for 2077. And people are finally able to appreciate that vision.
nigga what game did you play
The fact of the matter is, both the game, and edgerunners, are beautiful works of art. CDPR and Studio Trigger, both for the game and anime, built night city into something I fell in love with, and im forever grateful for them.
Never even considered playing cyberpunk because of the bad launch. It is interesting to see how much work went into it. How it's so inperfect yet so perfect. This video is so well made, good job man.
a Diamond in the rough
You reminded me of the comment I left on Never Fade Away video after game released.
It was "How something so imperfect can be so perfect"
I just finished It. It is a must play and up there with my favorites, Ghost of Tsushima and Horizon Zero Dawn.
sad you believed the negative hype, goes to show how wrong it was
@@juantimer it wasn't the game really was horrendous to say the least at launch it just got better now but for your point no it wasn't wrong it just didn't deliver as promised which in some planets they call it fraud
Your editing & script made this vid amazing. You put what I feel about cyberpunk into a 30 min video. I hope we get a sequel in the future.
Thanks so much!
I was obsessed with the game when I first started playing it. I put in countless hours just looking around, reading shards, taking in the atmosphere, just driving everywhere until I actually memorized the streets. I just felt so invested in stories of V, Johnny, Panam, Judy, River and Kerry. I think this had some of the best “companion” content I’ve seen in a game.
Dude, you have absolutely outdone yourself with this video. Love the perspective brought to this analysis, let alone your high quality video presentation.
Thank you! This video was really hard to put together so I'm so happy you guys like it.
@@DXFromYT yeah really well done mate, i just bought cyberpunk on special yesterday so you could say im a little hyped to play it now XD
@@lenseofficial Thanks! Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
This sums up everything I felt when going through it on release and it’s all coming back now that I literally just started another playthrough this week. There’s just SO much the game has to give. The music, the characters, each of the little and big moments, and all in all like you said, the feels. God I really can’t wait for that DLC to come.
I think my favorite smaller part of the game was the quest with Joshua, and the part near the end where you can decide to pray with him or not
I've never tried to save an NPC so bad
I'm not even religious in real life, but the game conveys how important it is to Joshua, i cannot deny his request seeing how much he believes in his "mission" it's so well done it's unbelievable.
@@Leandro7470 yeah! I'm personally Christian myself and despite the... chaotic nature of the game, the end of that quest that briefly gave V a chance to have faith was very moving, especially with the setting and endings to the game :)
Cyberpunk 2077 is a game that will never fade away.
I see what you did there
You have literally described my feelings for this game since day 1 in a way I never could. This video is a masterpiece, I thank you for making it.
A Dx video is always high quality. Had to click on this FAST.
Great Video! I liked at the start you said that "it feels like it was constructed by real people" which is true! they got real architects to oversee the design of night city and it shows. Loved the video DX
This is by far the best review I have seen of all the positives this game has and is overshadowed by issues many had at release. You have brilliantly described the word of Night City and its inhabitants with such care and faithfulness to what they are. Thank you for that. It's rare to find one that is willing and able to show to love that was put into this game from Mike Pondsmith all the way to the designers of 2077. As one who has at current 1167 hours (man that's crazy) into this game and my next highest is 43 hours I find myself constantly finding something new in the game still, and it's amazing.
This might just be my new favorite cyberpunk video
Thank you!
It took me a while to really have cyberpunk hook me, hell, I took a nearly 2 year break between release and when I finished it, and when I did…it hit me harder than I ever would have thought.
I was shocked when i saw this video was 30 minutes. It felt like 10 minutes. Thank you for your effort.
Greatest compliment you could ever give an editor, thank you so much.
650+ hours in. Night City is my favorite open world and one of my all time favorite locations in any fiction. Every couple of months, i miss being in this city so i start a playtrough and when i do, it feels like home.
I played it a year after release and it instantly became one of my favourite games of all time. Can’t wait for the expansion
I remember when I was downloading on the game on GOG the day it came out as I was watching the whole of Twitch and UA-cam playing the game. Moistcritical, Jacksepticeye, Pewdiepie, xQc, and many others playing it. It was like I was playing the dream, the most anticipated thing in any medium since Harry Potter was in my freaking hands. I was floored, what a feeling it was. Breathtaking. I caved in my room and played it for four straight days, cried my eyes out, then went online to see some people shitting on it. I was like wtf is going on. The game worked for me with minor bugs that you usually would find in any major and minor video game. I was fortunate. Then saw people asking CDPR to bring Jackie back for some reason. I was wondering if I misunderstood the game. Never was familiar with the cyberpunk genre beforehand, but I totally realized that NC would win, and win hard, no matter what. Jackie's death was a cautionary tale. But people still demanded the montage to be playable with Jackie. I missed him, like everyone, which was the goal of his intro, but he drew his fate from the very minute he introduced you to Dex and T-Bug. And I ended up drinking to Johnny Silverhand at the end of the game instead. Characters were unreal... I mean, believable.. You know what I mean.
Then the Edgerunners anime came out and I saw everyone echoing Silverhand's words, "A happy ending, in this city, for people like us? Wrong city."
I'm glad the game came back to the spotlight now. An amazing journey that I still remember two years later. Time for a replay this Christmas before Phantom Liberty comes along.
soy
And THANK YOU for acknowledging how mind blowing the city is. It is a REAL CITY. I’ve explored every inch. No other game so dense and detailed. Takes maybe 100+ hours to explore everything because most locations are not even used in missions.
I thoroughly enjoyed this game. And I’m so excited for the DLC! The ending made me fucking depressed, so I’ll be glad to go on more adventures with Johnny and V.
I outta agree, this has quickly become my favorite PC story based game. Not only is it unique in combat builds, a visually stunning open world, updated with proper difficulty, iconic characters, but one of the most intimate main-character developments to bond with the player of the uncertainty and bittersweet finite experience that is real life, and facing our inevitable deaths. The biggest lesson in each of these endings, is to chose how you’ll spend your last moments head on.
It has countless flaws, unfinished features everywhere, and enough crashes and random bugs to make anyone scratch their head. But it also has so goddamn much soul that it makes up for it. It's the first mainstream AAA game since the original Deus Ex which understands and nails the genre.
You just earned a sub with that bravo choom!
Seeing all these Cyberpunk videos recently make me wish I had a PC to play
Fantastic review and i 100% agree so far. In fact it's so good, I have to put it on pause while I do a few more run throughs so nothing gets spoiled. And I had almost 400 hours on the first run through! I played on PC so the game didn't have many glitches and was breathtaking even before I built a new machine to fully appreciate the gorgeous graphics. The funny thing is, the game hasn't changed that much since launch, so all the negative reception was unfair.
I've loved the game since it's initial launch, was a blast of unpolished immersive fun. Glad it is being recognized as a great game by someone like DX.
I feel you for the endings. People say that the Aldecaldo ending is the best, but personally I felt the pain of having Bob, Ted, and Saul die for V. That's why I love the Don't Fear The Reaper ending. You don't lose anyone who trusts you. Great perspective of the game BTW. I think what some people seem to forget is how many different playstyles there are when it comes to defeating goons.
What an amazing video, I'm so glad I've stumbled on to your channel. Good stuffm keep it up man, your presentation is amazing.
Playing don’t fear the reaper with don’t fear the reaper is a whole other experience on its own.
My new favorite Cyberpunk Video Review
Your video summarized my feelings for this game perfectly, thank you so much for taking the time to appreciate this masterpiece!
The production value of this video was incredible. You also perfectly explained why I think Cyberpunk will be remembered far into the future.
I'm so happy i found this video. you vocalised perfectly why i love this game and world so much, despite its flaws.
Well thought out and brilliantly presented.
Cyberpunk is one of my favoutites too, it and Path of Exile are the main games I have played over the last two years.
I keeping finding myself trying "just one more build", probably over 30 by now with at least 8 complete playthroughs and all the endings.
this isnt a game, this is a simulation of the future
This is the best unpaid advertisement of a game I have ever watched. I already completed the game, but if I hadn’t beforehand? You would have sold me completely.
I had some performance issues with the game because of weak GPU and lack of an SSD. Regardless, I found the story to be unlike anything else I’ve ever read / watched / played, and that alone was enough to make it my favorite game of all time. I will one day revisit this game and be just as astonished then as I am now.
"You mean Cyberpunk 2077 is a good game?"
"Always has been."
Great video!! Well done and entertaining as usual. Thanks DX
U really articulate so well exactly what I feel about this game .. the combat, the world, the varied builds, the characters, the mission design and storytelling.. all combine together to make a one of a kind video game
lol was playing cyberpunk when i got the notification for this video. hands down your best vid i loved the presentation, graphics, music, the cinematic shots & the weapon montages all top tier. & I fully agree about the endings i always felt bad that somebody was gonna die helping me on the final mission but gonna work on that secret ending on my next playthrough
Man the shit u said in the 2nd half was so spot on.. how the game makes u feel about the characters just by hanging out with them and how they emote so well.
Will always be my favorite game, cant believe i get to see the day that this masterpiece in immersion and story telling , finally gets its flowers
Of all the universes I've experienced the Cyberpunk genres has always captivated me. Especially CDPR's Cyberpunk 2077's Night City, then the attraction grew even stronger with Trigger's Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Couldn’t have explained it better myself. Your description of this game is one of the best ones I have seen so far on UA-cam. That alone just earned you a new subscriber👍
Started playing cyberpunk for the first time just some week ago - absolutely loving it, one of my favorite open worlds ever.
First time viewer here. You hit every point perfectly about how immersive this game is and I think it's important to communicate that is when this game is so easily overlooked with the shortcomings of CDPR. But at the same time, they crafted this game with attention to detail and care.
the best channel makes his return, congratulations on anoher AMAZING video, love cyberpunk too and this was a blast to watch!
Thank you!!!
OMG! Great video! Loved it! Cyberpunk 2077 is amazing in every aspect! I need to play it again, and i think the time is now! Thanks to this incredible video!
Pawel Sasko in his twitch channel talked about it, so here i'm haha' congrats on the video, it's amazing!
Finally someone who has played the same game I played. I was starting to think that my copy came from another dimension
We had very similar experiences and observations and obsessions with Cyberpunk, which makes me absolutely ecstatic. I got lucky and had a pretty big free build day one- I work in game development specifically in character concept and storytelling, and was hearing nonstop chatter at my college the month of its release. I saw the nastiness of it- but no one was seeing how there were so many aspects in its story and how it tells it that just makes it some of the best world building I’ve ever experienced. I’ve never been as immersed in a game as I have in this game- and despite the ways it failed, I really believe the storytelling and exposition this game presents that I think sets an excellent standard of how you can explore worlds that do not exist within games. Thank you for such a great video and sharing the love and excitement that can be found in this game, as someone in that industry, it warms my heart hearing the ways games have impacted people. The artists and developers that built this game really loved it- and it 100% shows.
my gallery on ps5 is just filled with cyberpunk screenshots. cdpr built an amazing world
Great video 👍this is the what I've been looking for since I've finished the game myself a few weeks ago.
While there are some cool essays and explorations of the game out there, a LOT of them can be overly long and tangential, and the discourse focuses majorly on the technical launch of the game and what the game isn't rather than the game itself.
What you've made is very concise but still hits all the aspects on why the game is so impressive and moving.
Thank you for making this.
i can't remember the last time i was so obsessed with a ...with any kind of media,to be honest. Maybe Mass Effect? I loved Cyberpunk 2077 since day one,pre-patch,bug riddden,broken. and kinda clunky. The fact that i bought a game that i cannot run comfortably and i didn't mind that at all shows how much i loved it.
Great vid, one thing missing though, a warning to be in a good place in yourself before playing it. I had recently lost an old friend to depression and a broken heart, I dove into the last part of the game as a distraction after his memorial service. The cooperate with arasaka ending which felt like the right thing at the time was so traumatic. I was not prepared for a video game to be so deeply moving and effective at making you feel. Grief is a really difficult thing to deal with.
dx im so happy you made this video
Aside from the issues 2077 sure has its golden moments with both its environment and general narrative
Boy that outro was something else! I loved that Never fade away remix when I heard it during the Sun ending. BTW This is the only video I have seen, that describes the immersive sim like pathways we can take. Love this game and this video on it!
Thank you for the kind words!!!
hands down the best review of Cyberpunk 2077, bravo!
Thank you!
I bought Cyberpunk on a whim for about half price a few weeks after it came out, and figured it'd be a decent and fun little escape but nothing to take too seriously given how broken everyone made it sound. While my reasons aren't the same, it also became one of my all-time favorites as well (nothing will touch Halo 3 for me) and I rarely replay games as often as I revisit this game. I grew up playing older games so the occasional glitch and bug doesn't bother me- the world, the city, the lore, all of it is so perfect. This game is masterfully crafted and it's a damn shame some people never gave it a chance
Congratulations on best review of Cyberpunk I have ever saw.
Thank you!
Cyberpunk isn't just a game it's the way
Finally, a review Cyberpunk 2077 deserves! Well done DX!
the slow motion kife throwing in that game is just so good and gives so much fun
wow this review is so cool! I love the game too and I am happy somebody can put together a video review like this to tell everyone that this game is awesome!!!!!
I might have to go back and actually play past the intro on this game now
Have a feeling you'd love it!
Damn, guess i need to play Cyberpunk now. Great vid as always!
I pre-ordered this game for my Xbox One S. I set up my character, but heard so much bad stuff I never played it. Then when the next Gen update came out for PS5, I decided to give it a shot. I chose to be a Nomad, played a fair few hours but some reason, I wasn’t really enjoying myself and gave up on a mission where your hacking cameras in someone’s apartment, basically I got stuck. Then earlier today, I started playing again. I choose to be a Street Kid this time, absolutely loved the intro and finished the first mission where your saving the girl in the tub. I don’t know what changed, but this game seems like a absolute masterpiece & I can’t wait to get stuck in even more!
I still remember watching a twitchstreamer that played CP2077. It was a great time and everything ran good, almost no crashes or the like. Guess the streamer was just very lucky.
Edgerunners brought me back to this game. Had it pre ordered and played it on day 1. I thought to myself to just wait for the devs to fix the bugs before playing again and then edgerunners came out. Now I can't stop playing it
Wow! This is one of the best and most positive reviews of this game I have seen. Seems you followed some of the same journeys and got the same feelings that I have in my play throughs of this game and I too found that the secret ending is my favorite.
I have played through with every life path, male and femaile and each ending. I have found that the Nomad life path with the femail V and the secret ending is my favorte and have played it several times.
I have played the game since it's release and have over 1600 hours in it and it just keeps getting better. I look forward to each patch that comes up and can't wait for the expansion which I expect it to make it even better.
I have started play throughs of other games and keep coming back to this one before finishing the other game. I guess I am addicted to the way that Cyberpunk has grabbed me and I can't find the same the feeling in any other games.
Odd how I finished every possible ending about 3 days ago, had the same thought process, and now find this video of a guy having a similar experience to mine so close to each other.
Absolutely agree with everything u said here choom. Great video
New DX 🙏
After 343.3 hours played I have to agree. I just can't wait for extensions and dlc.
Despite it's infamous launch, it deserved a 2nd chance and Edgerunners made it possible. Not to mention the music was a banger. Live as Nobody or Blaze of Glory really influenced how I live my life.
the real ending is the one where Johnny takes V's body. Change my mind.
Just a tip for almost everyone: Don’t buy a game nowadays Day 1.
great point. I sadly learned that harsh lesson again last week by rushing to get Pokemon Violet.
I do like the game but its unpolished and rushed out.
Remember when you’d buy a game and it was playable from day 1
Unless it's Elden Ring or God of War Ragnarok
Patience is a virtue.
I dunno dude, darktide is already fantastic and it hasn't even officially released.
Im addicted to this game, the lore, the world, the people and every other little detail. This video is gonna make me repplay it a third time.
CDPR understand the importance of World building or connection with the Characters you interact with. I love the Fact that every person you interact with feels like an interactive cutscene.
Superb video. Couldn’t have put it any better myself. Cyberpunk is one of the few games that obsessed me in its world and it’s people, and the only game to do it to the extent that it did. The game is undeniably flawed, yet an absolute masterpiece of storytelling and world building.
Bless. This was my favourite game of this year as well. Played it to death. 5-6 playthroughs on different methods. Swords, fists, assault, hacking, stealth and my first playthrough of just picking whatever! I plan to redo it as a shotgun when the expansion drops.