And so was the very anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 released, after years of waiting. The reception probably wasn’t what CDPR had hoped for. And the game, of course, wasn’t what people had hoped for, either.

As for me? I… rather enjoyed the game actually, despite even running it on a last gen console, though I played most of it after the first few hotfixes.

Was it buggy? It was. My play through was 50+ hours, and during that time I had about ten or so crashes, and tons of little glitches. But nothing game-breaking, no serious quest bug or anything.

Is it a good game? I think so, really good even. I liked the story and the characters, the world, the character progression system, some memorable scenes and interesting ideas, among other things. But I also felt it was too short, and kind of shallow at times, like something was lacking. They introduce you to so many things which you then naturally want to explore further, which you then often can’t. For example, Voodoo Boys seemed like an interesting gang, but my involvement was (involuntarily) over before it even got started, it seemed. Among other shortcomings. Still, let’s have a sense of proportion here, there certainly are worse games in this particular regard, including Outer Worlds (which I also enjoyed, but…).

Also keep in mind I wasn’t doing a particularly deep run (though certainly more than just the main story, completed the Rudy quest line among many other things), so this is not my final take. In addition, the game will start expanding once they have it in working order. CDPR will start adding more material to the game, both smaller free DLCs, and bigger ones for purchase, so we could be looking at a different game later on.

But it will take a while before the next run, probably until after having played through the upcoming Mass Effect trilogy remaster, which is coming in May and will likely take a long time to finish. Might be looking at an autumn run. Perhaps I’ll even have a current gen console by then.

Currently playing Baldur’s Gate EE, good times.