Do not bring my favourite movie of all time, Mad Max: Fury Road, as part of your argumentation.
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The way the director made it is pure perfection and Cyberpunk would have to deliver on literally everything that was said and expected of it, just to be able to compete with this movie.
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There is not a single frame wasted, a line of dialogue chosen incorrectly. A masterpiece.
There is montage mistake during final last chase, pretty big one and Max is OOC when he's very emotional and talktive when they chase Furiosa (he is chained to front of car, but that's not explanation) ... lets say it's flawed masterpiece.
Cyberpunk 2077 stays pretty close to Mad Max: Fury Road, because both pieces storywise reference to Homer's "Odyssey" ,like pretty hard...
In Mad Max Fury Road, Max as character is post-apo Odysseus wandering sea of sand:
- escapes Ciclops Cave (Citadel, scene with him looking like sheep shearing),
- Lotus Eaters trope (weak warboys sleeping while draining blood from captives),
- Scylla and Charybdis (most obvious one visually and storywise - canyon chase scene),
- Sirens - Many Mothers and their trap, plus their feathers...
- leaving Calypso - Max and Furios become "lovers" when they share blood,
- significant visual details like trident (Poseidons symbol) mask put on Max ,
- Furiosa being vessel for characters like Paris (kidnapping wives), Clytemnestra (killing warlord husband), Calypso (being lover of Max, figuratively)
- movie with frames looking close to pieces of art about Odyssey like for example:
- oh yeah and there was something else about trident...
Cyberpunk 2077 is very hmmm close to Homer's Odyssey -more chronogically than MM... talking about main storyline with examples like:
- Lotus Eaters = Lizzies Bar
- Cyclops Cave - most obvious one, tone of quest, visuals, pretty close to cave, cyclops (Royce...lol) asthetics, you're unwelcomed guests and asking Royce to honor some rules - everything just like in Oddysey's story
- Sirens = Hanako singing, playing everytime you see her...
- Scylla and Charybdis: Voodo Boys storyline in Pacyfica, Brigitte is playing role of Scylla (with 6 netrunners) and Charybdis = Alt
- final act of story is desperate V asking Panam/Rogue/Hanako (two of them are kinda princess from foreign land, almost literally) for help, just like desperate Odys asks Nauzykaa (princess from foreign land)
- Arasaka's logo is trident...
Both,Max and V, are secretive about their names just like Odys.
Ofc maybe I missed something, but you get my point.
So yeah Cyberpunk 2077 storywise is pretty close to Mad Max as you can see. V and Max are similar characters with similar goals, desperate to survive, looking for redemption.
So I think you can place them (game and movie) in one sentence.