Can a story set in neo-feudal Japan, featuring scarce but highly futuristic/unusual technology concentrated in the hands of an evil clan, be considered cyberpunk? Or must the technology be onmipresent?
Can a story set in neo-feudal Japan, featuring scarce but highly futuristic/unusual technology concentrated in the hands of an evil clan, be considered cyberpunk? Or must the technology be onmipresent?
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Like samurai jack?
You are aware that the future isn’t evenly distributed?
if it has elements of hacking, tech, low life, lawlessness, and some punk, then it can be considered cyberpunk, imo.
I only speak for myself, but I personally think it misses the point and the charm of the cyberpunk genre. At least from a visual standpoint.
While this is obviously an ad for a video game. I do appreciate it being presented as a legitimate question.
About the aesthetics – present but comparable very minor adaptions like electro sensitive tattoos, fancy payment system, drugs that kill not enhanced persons etc.
More relevant is the ‘grimdark dystopia’, that technology isn’t a solution but also a course and low lifers combating them effing corpos