#ending

i never knew what it felt like when someone got over their pride and reached out to show me that they wanted me back. i was always the one person to think of great gestures and long letters to fight for someone. i can only ever imagine what it feels like to have someone fight for me.

My V was a netrunner idealist that never admitted in having a morbid curiosity for everything. 

This post will be my impression on the Cyberpunk 2077 endings. Will be a lot of rambling. I love the game, the themes it explores, the world it creates. However the whole experience was not as smooth. Yes, the game has bugs, but these can be patched.

Spoilers ahead.

So the Nomad ending huh. Guess it’s considered the good one. Glad for the people who romanced Panam. Even as a female V player I felt the game was pushing her on me ( One guy in the crowd during Saul’s speach comments “Ask, Panam! She knows”. This felt like a tease for lovers?). During the same speech he admits that V is an outsider, but continues to make them an Aldecaldo. This felt off. I went for their help since they have the power to confront Arasaka, but had no agency whether I want to join them and leave. Panam cares for V, and is one of the most optimistic characters regarding V’s fate, which is heartwarming. I see Panam and V as potential BFFs, but my V would never live a nomad life. 

The mission design was to be played by a mercenary type character, guns blazing, tank going pewpew. My V felt out of place being a 20 INT stealth build. I beat the mission, but it did not give me an appropriate tone.

River leaves you (this relationship is another topic I’d like to discuss sometime).
Takemura calls V a “bitch”.

Panam is forgets what personal space is for some reason.

So I reloaded.

Devil ending. Everyone/most people hate V after this one, which is sad. Buuut, it did give V nice moments with Takemura. I kind of thought that there will be more of that. V will make Takemura understand that Arasaka doesn’t care, fuck up their plans without sacrificing lives. 

But Takemura is a blind loyal dog, and I like this bit. Was a “Oh, this is Night City, after all.” moment. The part where you get uploaded - as a netrunner with huge respect for Alt, V thought that she may play the game in the cyberspace. Who knows, V is a ghost. Property of Arasaka now. 

I did a few more replays then watched a lot of videos regarding all endings. Did not consider letting Johny take over during attack - my V doesn’t trust that guy. Even if he may be not as bad as it seemed at first.

Giving him the body and popping off to Cyberspace is a valid option, tho. Requires the Nomad ending, which I don’t like thematically. 

I guess my head canon would be the secret ending? That looks tough to get tho. I’ll have to rest from this game for a bit and see.

Of all the completely valid and eloquent theories pointing to this being Chuck’s ending I think just the fact that Dean told Chuck “screw you” and Chuck said “no screw You” is enough on its own