I don't know how to collect my thoughts but I will tell you something, this ending is legitimately terrible I regret buying the DLC. I mean I love the 2.0 update with combat, no complains about that but the DLC story, I regret spending my time with this Songbird individual, what a manipulative, and charmless bitch. But the way the DLC is trying to frame her as a victim who needs to take no accountability for raising hell is crazy, the audacity on this bitch to guilt-trip V at every turn for 'betraying' her, what a bareface lying bitch.
It isn't even a twist because I know she's a bareface lying bitch from the start after she lets a guy die to find her while she's chilling at Hanse's house.
There is an active narrative in this game about the lack of accountability, because in this ending where I sold her traitor ass out after she sold me out, V is portrayed as a victim for getting his cyberware removed but why? This guy should be grateful he ain't fucking crippled or dead. His only fucking penance from being a murdering merc was not being able to do it again and he's whining about it. The fucking audacity on this motherfucker.
And it's the exact same as he started before he got fitted with chrome! And he wasn't even the back from where he started, he made powerful friends, had a lot of valuable experiences, all in the span OF FOUR YEARS. How tf did they manage to portray him as a victim? He's GAINED A LOT OF THINGS and actually lost literally nothing because the relic was what made him be able to chrome out to begin with and he was never going to live forever with the relic anyway. Is he stupid or what? Did they take brain cells out from his skull during the operation?
Also why didn't V just give a full text to his friend about what's happening, especially the ones he loved, like Panam? It's major operation, why didn't he call them, it's not like he's going to the dentist? It's just so forced because I know for certain that no matter how much of an ingrate V is, if the one he loves calls him, he would let it go. I know for certain that shit went through the writer's mind but they just let it go to force this "bittersweet" ending.
It's hilarious to me because this is the exact same ending from a very famous anime, I won't say what, but if you know you know, a guy sacrifice his ability to perform magical rune to basically trade back the body of his brother. It's called equivalent exchange. But that was a happy ending.
I guess my question is, why do you insist on framing this as a terrible choice for V when he wants to live? Why can't you make V be more grateful? Why are you forcing the "Oh but what about the other choice" option down my throat
In such a strange and abrupt way, this DLC is basically saying, it's all right to tear everyone down for your ambition and make them all suffer for you, because you might just become a regular joe. And the funniest part about all this is that it's supposed to be anti-corp, but holy shit, if Songbird and V were a CEO they would be far worst than any CEO that might exist in the lore of Cyberpunk.
It's basically selling your soul in a different way, at least companies provide job. But these two absolute imbeciles provide nothing but destruction and suffering for everyone involved. What a strange and contradictory message.
It isn't even a twist because I know she's a bareface lying bitch from the start after she lets a guy die to find her while she's chilling at Hanse's house.
There is an active narrative in this game about the lack of accountability, because in this ending where I sold her traitor ass out after she sold me out, V is portrayed as a victim for getting his cyberware removed but why? This guy should be grateful he ain't fucking crippled or dead. His only fucking penance from being a murdering merc was not being able to do it again and he's whining about it. The fucking audacity on this motherfucker.
And it's the exact same as he started before he got fitted with chrome! And he wasn't even the back from where he started, he made powerful friends, had a lot of valuable experiences, all in the span OF FOUR YEARS. How tf did they manage to portray him as a victim? He's GAINED A LOT OF THINGS and actually lost literally nothing because the relic was what made him be able to chrome out to begin with and he was never going to live forever with the relic anyway. Is he stupid or what? Did they take brain cells out from his skull during the operation?
Also why didn't V just give a full text to his friend about what's happening, especially the ones he loved, like Panam? It's major operation, why didn't he call them, it's not like he's going to the dentist? It's just so forced because I know for certain that no matter how much of an ingrate V is, if the one he loves calls him, he would let it go. I know for certain that shit went through the writer's mind but they just let it go to force this "bittersweet" ending.
It's hilarious to me because this is the exact same ending from a very famous anime, I won't say what, but if you know you know, a guy sacrifice his ability to perform magical rune to basically trade back the body of his brother. It's called equivalent exchange. But that was a happy ending.
I guess my question is, why do you insist on framing this as a terrible choice for V when he wants to live? Why can't you make V be more grateful? Why are you forcing the "Oh but what about the other choice" option down my throat
In such a strange and abrupt way, this DLC is basically saying, it's all right to tear everyone down for your ambition and make them all suffer for you, because you might just become a regular joe. And the funniest part about all this is that it's supposed to be anti-corp, but holy shit, if Songbird and V were a CEO they would be far worst than any CEO that might exist in the lore of Cyberpunk.
It's basically selling your soul in a different way, at least companies provide job. But these two absolute imbeciles provide nothing but destruction and suffering for everyone involved. What a strange and contradictory message.