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There’s no plot reward to make it all feel worthwhile.
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There’s next to no artifice hiding the fact that all I’m doing is busywork. It’s just that the smoke and mirrors surrounding them are so damn thin. Even the endless “go here and kill 2-5 dudes” quests of Cyberpunk 2077 tickle the right parts of my brain after a fashion. I enjoyed Ghost of Tsushima earlier this year and mean to get back to Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. It’s me I’m slurpy! I honestly love a good checklist game from time to time. Put another way, they feel a lot like the open-world game cruft players have been slurping down for years. Each feels ready to be discarded as quickly as it’s acquired - as if it fell from any of the thousand vending machines littering the world. Instead it dishes out endless waves of prefabricated quests.
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It lacks all the branching dialogue and small, personal stories that made The Witcher 3 excel. I’m talking about how Cyberpunk 2077 cordons off its garish open-world of Night City. Though that might not always be the case. Cyberpunk 2077 is just F allout 76 without the multiplayer. Combined with the godawful performance (not just on older consoles, like developer CD Projekt Red’s apology letter specifically points out, attempting to sweep away other criticisms with a minor concession) it reminds me of another game. Beyond the myriad glitches, racism, transphobia, and other issues that have been reported at length elsewhere Cyberpunk 2077 feels almost intentionally shallow at every opportunity. I’m not actually sure how fair that is, given all games are “smoke and mirrors” to some degree, but it certainly feels correct in this case. I keep seeing the phrase “smoke and mirrors” repeated across Cyberpunk 2077 coverage.