Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Review (JC)
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is a DLC that delivers everything I expected and more. What I mean by that is that it felt like a separate game but it's still Cyberpunk 2077, you're free to go in and out of dogtown and each time you do it's like dogtown isn't a part of Night City. It still amazes me on how that works so well.
To start off I'd like to talk about the story because that sh*t was beautiful. The amount of times I trusted and doubted people is insane. It is a roller coaster ride of theory crafting while I am playing. The uncertainty of where the story will take you, its unpredictable plot points is fantastic. There was only one shock value along the way and that was enough. I completed everything Phantom Liberty has to offer outside of the main questline, i made sure to leave no stone un-turned. But it being my first play-through of Phantom Liberty I only got to experience one of the many possible endings and I'm not gonna lie... the emotional damage hit me like a truck. By the time the credits rolled I was tearing up.
In terms of game-play it's the same as with the base game of cyberpunk, it just expanded upon. Missions doesn't let you do the same thing there's always a twist on how to approach each event from guiding Reed along a stretch of corridors while you have a bird's eye view from the sniper's nest, to impersonating people where you have to make the right choices that would fit how the character you are impersonating would act and of course the ever lore expanding side quests that help make the world of cyberpunk feel so alive.
When it comes to characters, like I said earlier, they are all a "tough-read" and what I mean by that is I couldn't figure out their motivations. Of course, I thought I did at the start when there's basically a clear "Right or wrong" from my perspective. But then you finish act one and step into act two where those motivations starts to clash. Now you have no clue... Right is now Up and Wrong is now Down. Suddenly there is a giant fork in the road with multiple paths and you can only choose one. The best part is that every choice is the correct one. They are all good but they clash with all the other choices. So it's up to you to PICK which RIGHT will reach the finish line.
I love cyberpunk man. I still want flying cars, appearance changing cyberware, more romance activities/options, be able to get trauma team coverage, clothing doesn't come in individual pieces but condensed into "Type and Color". Have every vehicle, guns, apartments be able to be customized. Character customization similar to black desert. I mean there is a lot of things I want in the game...
but at the end of it all I am very satisfied on what it is now. 10/10.