I honestly think that, for how quickly it happened, Evelyn's death still sticks. It's the most grim reminder of what happens to those who cross the wrong people in NC. Also, it made me cry :,)
I honestly think that, for how quickly it happened, Evelyn's death still sticks. It's the most grim reminder of what happens to those who cross the wrong people in NC. Also, it made me cry :,)
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Misty: *”The last time I saw Jackie, we had a fight.”*
Jackie: *”I could bring Misty here one day! Y’know, after we settle this deal.”*
Misty will always carry a little guilt on Jackie’s behalf, no matter how much V can convince her that he wasn’t mad at her. Mad? Hell, he was already planning their next date.
Tell people you love them, chooms. Next time isn’t guaranteed.
Barry Lewis.
Jackie for me, Jhonny was already dead and we don’t really get to know the real one, just a copy carrying the memories of an asshole. Reed? I don’t even like that guy. So mi? Nah… Evelyn? Didn’t get to know her that well, what happened to her was fucked up but didn’t hurt me personally, just like many other deaths, I even felt more sorry about Sliders burnout or the french twins flatlines… Depending on the ending you choose, Rogue or Saúl are pretty sad losses too
Jackie then Evelyn for me. Aurore with a special mention only because she has such a cool design and personality that we got almost no time with.
Either Lennie Small or Old Yeller.
Wait? Did you mean in Cyberpunk?
For 3 of 5(Reed, Song, and Johnny), their fate is in V’s hands.
Jackie was a Merc who knew the only way to become a legend was to eat it on a job.
Evelyn, on the other hand, was a doll who naively got in over her head with the wrong people. Had her brain scrambled by the voodoo boys. Then was passed around, used, and discarded like an unwanted toy. No one in the game is more tragic than Evelyn.
Evelyn without a question, a friend of mine died of suicide after being raped so it hit me incredibky hard, didn’t touch the game for weeks after playing the mission and skipping through it ever time after.
Jackie and Evelyn will always hurt the most to me
Jackie had so much optimism, right to the end. Still trying to crack jokes, knowing that he wasn’t gonna make it out alive. His comments about him and Misty going to Konpeki one day make it even sadder to me.
What happened to Evelyn still fucks me up. She’s the reason I kill Woodman and every single Voodoo Boy and Scav I come across.
Song. Even if her death is the result of her own bad decisions, same as Jackie, some of her last words broke my heart: If we kill her she’ll know that at least at the end she had a friend.
Definitely Jackie for me. I get chills every time, every bad sign leading up to it, the voice work of everyone involved, having just lost T-Bug right before. Hits hard, man.
It’s tied between Song,>!if you betray her!< or Jonny when he says “Good night Valerie, today was a good day”.
Jackie.
Unpopular opinion, but i kinda hated when Saul died. He was starting to grow on me like a true bro, then smash.
Johnny shockingly because he kinda grew on me I didn’t want to let go. Jackie’s was intense but, idk Johnny’s hit harder for me
Evelyn for me. The utterly heinous shit that was done to her is so fucked up.
Songbird, Evelynn and Jackie. JAckie is my choom and seeing how it affected V just hurt honestly. But for Song and Evelynn you just see how the world chews them up and spits them out. Yeah Evelynn manipulated everyonne and it just caught up to her in the end. But her alternative was probably being a doll till her shelf life was up. And damn Judy mourning Evelynn hit something.
Song does dumb shit and the consequences are just fast, brutal and permanent. I havent known anyone with dementia but her losing her memories and herself just feels like a horrid cyberpunk version of it. The tragedy of Reed brining her into this line of work and not really knowing the best way to get her out hurts as well. Her death does a number on the guy.
I guess big part of these deaths is seeing how they affect the others around them You feel the tragedy of their short lives.
Aurore Cassel
I hate seeing Jackie Boy go every time I playthru. He was pretty well written for each life path, I just would have loved to see him get to the end game.
Evelyn, you kind of see it coming from a mile off after you get her out of the Scav haunt but it still sucks when you get that message from Judy.
Jackie’s hits me the hardest personally, but Evelyn’s demise was much more tragic in the sense that Jackie wasn’t tortured, abused, and thrown in a corner to suffer and wait for death.
Jackie…man was your homie and died trying to get to the big leagues
v and johnny
I’d say Jackie , felt like an actual friend
Reed. He’s a man torn apart by cognitive dissonance. His death is the closest thing to a happy ending he could have received.
The only deaths I really felt bad about were Song’s and Johnny’s in mikoshi because they both were a direct result of a decision I made.
Jackie was the first gut punch for me. Never truly recovered by his offrenda(?) was an amazing moment
Evelyn was too brutal. She got tossed around and died in obscurity. Even wiping out the VDBs didn’t do much. Felt like she lived and died for nothing, with only us and Judy carrying her flame
Reed was a good man serving a bad cause, even if he couldn’t see it. Through death, he was finally free of the shackles he never knew he had, though he would have seen the NUSA for who they were eventually.
Johnny, our friend, our enemy, our brain parasite. We spent the most time with him out of these five by far, but he ends up accepting his death in the end. His dialogue during the Tower ending is still really sad though, and it’s hard not to feel bad for someone we’ve spent so much time with.
Jackie was our true choom, the only one of the bunch who never wanted anything from us. I always toast to Jackie when I get the opportunity, and attending his ofrenda really drives home how empty we as players feel without him. He gets my vote.
Songbird was a woman who would do anything to survive in the end, and given she was basically Rosalind Myers’ slave, who can really blame her? Her desperation for survival mirrors that of V’s in a lot of ways, and I’ve always been sympathetic towards her. In killing her, we gave her peace and freedom from Myers’ control.
Evelyn was the most sudden out of all these, I still remember my shock at walking into Judy’s apartment and seeing her body in the bathtub for the first time. Judy’s reaction as well really makes Evelyn’s death hurt, and I imagine this hits even harder for anyone who has lost a loved one to suicide.
Brandon.
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Evelyn’s stuck with me for a good while when I first played. Also because it felt pretty realistic with the circumstances and how it affects Judy.
Songbird. A complex bleak character with no right answers. Everything about phantom liberty was rough. Bleak, dark. I still believe killing Songbird is the best method, however, giving her over to the president no. No one should have the power that Song had. It’s tragic, you can’t come out a hero. Only a survivor. And yes, Song betrayed us. But she had her reasons, controversial as they are. She was scared, she was losing herself to the blackwall. She was becoming a monster. Her character, and the characters of Phantom Liberty are fantastically grey morally, and you’re forced into that choice where there is no excuse of “It’s the right thing to do.” It all comes down to. “I THOUGHT it was the best choice..”
Evelyn, not because of the death itself, but because of what they did to her before
Evelyn, Songbird, Jackie
The ex military guy that flatlines himself
the massages the characters sent me after the suicide ending still gets me
Tied between Jack, Reed, and Song. Jackie weighted slightly above the others, because he’s the original choom. Tried to make it into the big leagues, but fell in with the wrong person to do it with. Reed was a stubborn, dumb loyal dog to NUS/Myers even after the latter burned him. Song was in a literal life-or-death situation, and did what she could to get herself out of it even if it meant putting a knife into the backs of everybody she asked help from.
So Mi begging to die after you betray her really diced my heart like onions.
Johnny is comfortable with his death by the end, Reed has accepted that he died years ago and he doesn’t really have anything else to live for but his principles. Evelyn is closer to So Mi in that respect, but we don’t get to interact with her nearly as much, so her death was less important to me than Judy’s reaction to it. Jackie’s death was sad but also kind of perfect narratively-speaking for Vs growth as a character, so I didn’t feel *as* sad lol