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January 25, 2021 10:00 AM EST
Cyberpunk 2077 takes its genre and creates a very beautiful world to play in. If only it utilized it to tackle the issues that it hints at with a more tactful hand.
Few games in recent memory have been able to create such a fully realized world with so much visual flair and potential as CD Projekt Red’s
Cyberpunk 2077. A handful of its characters such as Judy Alvarez are beacons of what this story and the world can be at its best. But one of the biggest missed opportunities lies within the game’s own DNA. While it’s namesake and overall influences may be inspired by the cyberpunk genre, it often feels as though it never truly commits to the deeper implications of the world it’s creating or the weighty ideas it hints at within its narrative.