One of the things about Cyberpunk 2077 is that it has a decent number of love interests but very little crossover (there's no bisexual love interests for example) and they never really meat. However, one interesting thing is that you can still develop very deep relationships with the love interests as friends. My deepest relationship in the game, for example, was my Straight Male V with Judy the Lesbian Hacker.
It was interesting the way their story developed because their friendship felt really true and strong. My V had a crush on Evelyn and the two of them bonded over the attempt to save her that failed miserably. Then he was there for her during the whole attempt at Clouds (I was trying to play my V as basically Dwight from Sin City--friend of the Mox) and there was a good moment when Maiko said that V and Judy were clearly hooking up. I imagine the same dialogue is for female V but it was laughable that her ex assumed it with the two. I felt it was all the stronger for the fact that Judy and they bonded and I never took any flirtatious dialogue with her.
Similarly, I actually think V and River had some good "bro" energy even though he does come off as flirty at times. V doesn't have any family left in Night City so helping River rescue his nephew is kind of feeding off the energy of Jackie/Mama Welles. I also felt that the fact V is a street merc and assassin while RIver is a cop is something that nicely dovetails into that "buddty cop" thing even with the, "So, River, do you want me to kill this guy in the hospital?" Which I fully expected to end horribly but was still a great moment.
Panam, well, I did romance.
Kerry? I actually tried to RPG it more as an inter-generational friendship but employee/employer too. V gets to play with Kerry's band but when Kerry is hiring V to blow up musical instruments and assassinate Us Cracks, I'm thinking, "I am being paid to do this and my client is a lunatic." It added an interesting dynamic to it even as poor Kerry uses V as a Johnny substitute in more ways than one since Johnny was an Edgerunner as well as Rockerboy while alive.
What was your take on the various relationships with the love interests when they, well, weren't love interests.
It was interesting the way their story developed because their friendship felt really true and strong. My V had a crush on Evelyn and the two of them bonded over the attempt to save her that failed miserably. Then he was there for her during the whole attempt at Clouds (I was trying to play my V as basically Dwight from Sin City--friend of the Mox) and there was a good moment when Maiko said that V and Judy were clearly hooking up. I imagine the same dialogue is for female V but it was laughable that her ex assumed it with the two. I felt it was all the stronger for the fact that Judy and they bonded and I never took any flirtatious dialogue with her.
Similarly, I actually think V and River had some good "bro" energy even though he does come off as flirty at times. V doesn't have any family left in Night City so helping River rescue his nephew is kind of feeding off the energy of Jackie/Mama Welles. I also felt that the fact V is a street merc and assassin while RIver is a cop is something that nicely dovetails into that "buddty cop" thing even with the, "So, River, do you want me to kill this guy in the hospital?" Which I fully expected to end horribly but was still a great moment.
Panam, well, I did romance.
Kerry? I actually tried to RPG it more as an inter-generational friendship but employee/employer too. V gets to play with Kerry's band but when Kerry is hiring V to blow up musical instruments and assassinate Us Cracks, I'm thinking, "I am being paid to do this and my client is a lunatic." It added an interesting dynamic to it even as poor Kerry uses V as a Johnny substitute in more ways than one since Johnny was an Edgerunner as well as Rockerboy while alive.
What was your take on the various relationships with the love interests when they, well, weren't love interests.