i don't understand where all the johnny hate comes from. i like the fact he's in content from top to bottom, if he wasn't it would seem too gimmicky, disconnected from the rest of the content, and just glaringly absent from the rest of the game. though i do understand we all think differently, and to each their own.
Because instead leaving Johnny as he was - semi supposed to be a “voice in the back of your head” he became a main part of the story, that was even trying to eclipse the main character and dependable how you see endings, he even, as a character, succeed in this.
So this whole things backfired. Not only MC is said to die no matter what he is somehow victorious.
Add to this fact that he is after all a psycho who killed 0,5 mln people by blowing nuke in the city center. In the age post 9/11, Madrit booming, Paris attacks shooting in Orlando club - no matter how hard you will try to justify his character (not to mention that game didn’t even try hard) it will never work properly.
also he is also crypto-misogyn by the way he treats all female characters in this game (from tools to object to be killed).
So you end up with character that is somehow a main star with the history like this, in the story like this, that is mostly mostly like this because of him.
He overstays his welcome in my book.
And I will be really glad if this is all what we see.
one the side note - that has nothing to do with Keanu, he played really great, maybe not a best role for him (the same I would say about Rayn Gosling) but still terrific performance!