I can't pin down from my memory anything solid where exactly Hanaka was assassinated but few things that were big me regarding exploring the game.
First trivia: If Takemura is alive there's dialogue option about fate of Yorinobu for V referring to that being like "Shakespearean level shit...". That may actually be a jab at Shakespeare. He did copy a lot of older stories and made versions of those for audience of his era. If you know about mythology of ancient Greeks. I wrote about almost a year go. that but I intentionally left out certain part. God Cronus was a god of chaos. My past writing about parallel isn't that great but that's how I felt when I played the Devil (had Takemura alive) about situation, people becoming property, slave for a mad god.
Exploring the game and possible jab at Shakespeare, it's bit more obvious if player also plays Devil / Hellman version. Takemura doesn't use word god, while Hellman very specifically refers Arasaka's as gods several times.
Devil ending is also exploring about what cyberpunk genre does regarding transhumanism. So technology solving being mortal doesn't actually solve issues of the human condition, instead we get new problems. In game all that has achieved to maintain peace after corpo wars, here they are, back in square one.
My first playthrough, I my V went with the Aldecaldos, I played Devil and the Sun couple of weeks later. There's this distrust, in Devil V gets to know that Arasaka board actually knew what was going on, but didn't wanted Saburo back. It's telling about corpo mindset and culture, there people can't trust anyone. That is polar opposite to Aldecaldos, whom main strength is their trust to each other.
In context of exploration, I didn't expect Devil to let V out of the hook completely but that CDPR had guts to go all that way to dystopian nightmare, that was a surprise.
There's also more to certain NPC's than what's on the surface. Sure Takemura wants revenge, but what is really driving him is his loyalty and sense of duty, he is sort of manifestation of certain ideal and there's some summary I wrote here how it connects to other things. It's not that great summary, there are little things, say Rogue / Johnny I should have written that this idea about unconditional love, if this is an idea that is something bigger than homo sapiens, but it summarizes few things. To be honest, it's been a year for me on these forums and I'm kinda sick of repeating myself.
First trivia: If Takemura is alive there's dialogue option about fate of Yorinobu for V referring to that being like "Shakespearean level shit...". That may actually be a jab at Shakespeare. He did copy a lot of older stories and made versions of those for audience of his era. If you know about mythology of ancient Greeks. I wrote about almost a year go. that but I intentionally left out certain part. God Cronus was a god of chaos. My past writing about parallel isn't that great but that's how I felt when I played the Devil (had Takemura alive) about situation, people becoming property, slave for a mad god.
Exploring the game and possible jab at Shakespeare, it's bit more obvious if player also plays Devil / Hellman version. Takemura doesn't use word god, while Hellman very specifically refers Arasaka's as gods several times.
Devil ending is also exploring about what cyberpunk genre does regarding transhumanism. So technology solving being mortal doesn't actually solve issues of the human condition, instead we get new problems. In game all that has achieved to maintain peace after corpo wars, here they are, back in square one.
My first playthrough, I my V went with the Aldecaldos, I played Devil and the Sun couple of weeks later. There's this distrust, in Devil V gets to know that Arasaka board actually knew what was going on, but didn't wanted Saburo back. It's telling about corpo mindset and culture, there people can't trust anyone. That is polar opposite to Aldecaldos, whom main strength is their trust to each other.
In context of exploration, I didn't expect Devil to let V out of the hook completely but that CDPR had guts to go all that way to dystopian nightmare, that was a surprise.
There's also more to certain NPC's than what's on the surface. Sure Takemura wants revenge, but what is really driving him is his loyalty and sense of duty, he is sort of manifestation of certain ideal and there's some summary I wrote here how it connects to other things. It's not that great summary, there are little things, say Rogue / Johnny I should have written that this idea about unconditional love, if this is an idea that is something bigger than homo sapiens, but it summarizes few things. To be honest, it's been a year for me on these forums and I'm kinda sick of repeating myself.