This game is art. Just finished my second run (with Phantom Liberty).

Just wrapped my second run-through, this time with Phantom Liberty. First time I played was back in 2021. I liked it then, but this time I took it slow… really immersed myself in the city, the characters, the themes. It hit different. Honestly, I’m still sitting with a lot of what the game threw at me.

What stuck with me most wasn’t the graphics, gameplay, or the aesthetic (though all of that’s great) – it was the questions the game kept asking. What does it mean to have agency in a world where everything, even your own body, can be bought or hacked? Where’s the line between survival and selling yourself out? Between identity and memory? It doesn’t hand you answers – it just leaves you in the mess, and lets you feel it. There’s a sadness running through this game, but also a weird kind of beauty in that.

Phantom Liberty especially drove that home. It’s full of hard choices that don’t feel “right” no matter what you do. You’re forced to make calls that stick with you. Not because they’re shocking, but because they feel real. And the game never forgets them. Neither do you.

By the end, I wasn’t thinking about loot or builds… I was thinking about what kind of person my V had become. What he'd sacrificed, what he'd held onto. And what that says about me, maybe.

Huge respect and thanks to CDPR. I can feel how much heart and thought went into this. A rare game that entertains and also leaves you with questions long after the credits roll.

Also… who is Mr. Blue Eyes???