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The first rule ofCyberpunk 2077is that nothing is fair, free, or totally illegal in Night City.
It’s a game where good people die bloody all the time and never see a lick of justice.
What else do those gonks expect in a place like this?
Night City is teeming with, as Johnny puts it, “zapper dumples and filth.”
But Night City doesn’t exactly welcome the ex-Bakker clansman with open arms as much as an iron fist.
Roleplaying as a wide-eyed newbie, it’s all too easy to fall swiftly under Night City’s spell.
There’s a transformative energy about it, the potential to becomesomethingelse.
Why come to NC if not to reinvent yourself?
Transformation nation
It’s suddenly easier to see how a place facilitates the faults of its inhabitants.
But the more cruelties V encounters, the more this wonder turns to wariness.
Liberate Clouds from the Tyger Claws and anger one of the most thuggish gangs in town?
Yeah, maybe I’ll just leave things to Maiko.
Not my business, sorry.
But where does The Continent fit into this damning indictment of a sci-fi dystopia?
Peel back the chrome, and it looks much the same.
The Continent might lack NC’s skyscrapers and convenience stores, but both are feudal territories.
In many ways, Night City is just The Continent with a few more centuries tacked on.
It’s not hard to see how both can be cast as the villains in their own regard.
I’ll try not worry about it just yet.
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