4/5 ★ – JakeBakesCakes's review of Cyberpunk 2077.

I’m conflicted. Cyberpunk 2077 is not the revolutionary game people thought it would be. It’s not the revolutionary game I thought it would be. It’s an open-world, 1st-person shooter RPG that has a better world than most open-world games and better 1st-person combat than most RPGs. It does everything well, it just doesn’t revolutionize the genre. Cyberpunk didn’t have to. It didn’t have to if its writing and story elevated it to be something special. And this is where I’m conflicted. The writing is incredible at times. There are some characters I adored, and some conversations that left me emotionally affected. There were also times the writing was just as generic and boring as most Ubisoft open-world games. The story is expansive and complex, yet it feels so simple. There is an obvious story the writers wanted to tell, but they weren’t making a single-player narrative game, they are making an RPG where player choice matters. I felt like my relationships and my V’s motivations were all over the place. I never knew where he stood. The themes of this game are also all over the place. I don’t quite know what they wanted me to feel. I don’t know what they wanted me to walk away with. It’s 3:45 am and I’m rambling, but overall, Cyberpunk 2077 is worth playing. Its world is incredible, the set pieces are top notch, and it is fun to play. It’s just hard to ignore its potential to be more. As I was writing this, the game crashed mid-credits. I didn’t even get to recognize the people who crunched on this game because of bugs/crashes. That part sucks.