After almost 2 years and 179.6 hours, I can finally share my thoughts on this masterpiece. Man, what a game. Game of the decade for me. You don't just play it, you go there. You live in Night City, and with every lesson you try to teach that animal, that machine, it just teaches you more about yourself. No other game has made me think to myself for literal hours about what the "right" thing to do is before making my decisions than Cyberpunk. It's easy for the stories we tell others (and ourselves) to fall into a kind of fairy-tale morality, where one party is completely in the right and thus good, while the other is completely in the wrong and thus evil. Reality paints a very different picture. As much as we'd like it to, because it'd all be easier this way, the world doesn't fit into little boxes color-coded black and white. Night City is a brutally grey place. Not just because of the rising smog or the polluted water, but because of the people. I thought I knew what grey looked like. I went to Night City searching for something, maybe chasing some flair of color. For a time I saw it through shades of red, but in the end, it just wasn't there. Wrong city, wrong people I guess. Night City took everything from me, but it also gave me more than I could ever ask, and I left with everything I ever needed..
"Well, Night City – good night and good luck." – V, Cyberpunk 2077