KRTPrime

I've played Cyberpunk 2077 for almost 50 hours. My impressions so far: + Great combat for an RPG without diluting the usefulness of attributes, weapon rarity, or any of the perk trees. + Immersive conversation style with NPCs is so good I need it to be the new standard for first-person games. Even the way they call you up on the phone is implemented so organically. + This might be my favorite Keanu Reeves role ever. His dead-pan and sort of awkward line delivery is perfect for a character like Johnny Silverhand. + Night City is a wonderful open-world. It's dense, it feels alive, and it begs to be explored. - NPC interactions, while great most of the time, still have some holes in them. For example, you can't strike up a conversation with an important NPC whenever you want to. They either need to talk to you first or you have to call them. Finding Panam just sitting around at the Nomad camp and being unable to talk to her broke the illusion for me. - Many of the important side quests being funneled through one singular individual per chain has some benefits, but it also feels like I won't be able to just stumble upon other side quests of equal value while exploring. - I killed some of the story momentum for myself in Act 2 by running off and doing side quests instead of pursuing the main objectives which I didn't realize had natural break points and waiting periods for you to fit the side questing in more naturally, but again, I'll blame myself on that one. Overall, I'm really loving it and I'm already planning future playthroughs in my head which is the mark of a great RPG for me. I think even at this point I can say with confidence that this is definitely one of the greatest videos games of our generation. What a collosal comeback CD Projekt Red was able to muster.