5/5 ★ – SoulStealerJay's review of Cyberpunk 2077.

Save some loading issues occasionally, the graphics look AMAZING. There was clearly a lot of effort put into every single detail of Night City and how it looks. The buildings stand tall, the streets are populated, the people are seriously designed elaborately, this is visually the greatest game I have ever played. The colors, the screens, the pedestrians, the vehicles, everything visually has life in this game, and with ray tracing enabled, it’s absolutely breathtakingly gorgeous. Sadly, I don’t have a ray tracing enabled set up yet, but even without it, it’s amazing. It easily beats out Red Dead Redemption 2 and pretty much almost every game on PC, excluding Crysis Remastered. Gameplay is next, and the game doesn’t feel THAT hot to play. The walking feels...fine? I just feel like I’m gliding across the sidewalk rather than walking or running. It’s minor. Nitpicky. But it bugs me a little. The weirdest part to me is the gunplay, oddly enough. I don’t know how to put this...it feels like every gun has kickback, but more than what the game actually cares to show. It’s really weird honestly, I can’t even explain it totally, it just feels a little weird. The skills do help a LOT here though, because there are some lethal quick hacks. It’s even more fun when you breach the network protocol because you can either get more money out of some hacks, lower the requirements, or just boost your abilities like easily disabling the camera system. And the stealth - while not Metal Gear level - is actually really cool because if you’re seen you have a chance of ducking out of view to save yourself, yet you’re not totally safe. You have to be very careful because they’ll start approaching where they saw you, which means you have two options: disable their vision or keep moving out of view as much as you can. In a lot of jobs, this tactic is VERY useful when there are groups way bigger than you can handle on your own at a point in time. Unless you make V powerful enough to take them on, this is a great twist that definitely makes up for the shooting segments and adds a lot of thinking to what could have easily become another brainless first-person shooter. UPDATE: Turns out my settings personally needed SERIOUS tweaking but now the game feels like a dream. The sound, the audio in this game is absolutely phenomenal with every single thing having a sound that blends together with everything else. It truly feels like I’m in Night City just by listening, I feel like I’m V. And speaking of V, both the masculine and feminine voices are well done! It’s been a while since I played a game that had great voice acting, this is...seriously a breath of fresh air after Immortals Fenyx Rising. And the music selection for the game...actually sounds great! I don’t know if I can play anything besides the title song, because the United States government and the copyright system on YouTube both have it out for content creators, but trust me when I say it’s music you wouldn’t see yourself getting into without playing this game. And the sound effects are very punchy and satisfying, you feel the shots you land without needing vibration - although that definitely enhances the experience. What’s the final score? Well, for the PC version of the game, even if it took nearly a decade to come to fruition, the game turned out absolutely mindblowing. No, the game isn’t objectively perfect, thanks to a floating cigarette and suitcase with some other issues that I thankfully have managed to avoid in both of the 1.05 and 1.06 patches, and no, CD Projekt Red didn’t exactly deliver on their promises. However, the end result was a fantastic game, and like their past games, I’m confident in history repeating for them: right now, it isn’t so great. But in time, it’ll get better and reach its full potential. Cyberpunk 2077 on PC gets a solid 10/10. This game has proven to me its bugs are not from laziness, but rather from passion. This game was a passion project through and through. It’s a crime that this game was rushed, because if the developers had more time and if the higher-ups weren’t so desperate, this could easily have been the greatest game of all time. For me, the glitches did not hinder my experience with the story or my choices. Nor were they even major. This game is absolutely the greatest I have ever played. No competition. While on consoles the game is still unstable, I’ve only ever experienced one crash on my PC and that was because of my hardware, not to any fault of the game. Not only is this the most visually impressive game I’ve ever played, but this is also the best game I’ve ever played.