It's rather long, but I really recommend watching this review. It goes
really deep and shows how much substance there is under the surface.
Since it's recommend by a Moderator, I planed to watched it last month.
But I'm busy this month and pass through the "BlackWall" need some effort, so it's a bit late.
And after this 2 hours watching, I'm sorry to say it's really little... disappointed for me.
Some part of vedio has little flatter, the wide empty dump is definitely the result of rush work, because not every player would stay at dump and think so deeply. The wise solution is give these place more sidejob. Actually, a large dump at the city like NC must the core life of poorest people. But in this game, it's just empty.
But, OK, let's left these part away, they are not the point.
It is deeper than many vedio because the author try to discusse the social system of CP world.
I do agree later capitalistic society is a disaster that should never happened.
But is it the end?
I think it's the worst part of critical art, they told you there is a shit on your road but never give you a way to avoid to step on.
The author said much about Johnney, the introspection about what he did and the punk campaign in real world.
But why they failed? I'm no doubt that as an American, he can hardly catch the point because it is hidden for him, on purpose.
The later capitalistic society is much closer than it looks like, yes we haven't invent Cyberware, but it's the least important part. People are losing jobs, corp win again and again. They chose what you can watch and hear, to make it... normal, to make you used to.
And, they hide the solution. It work well at real world. I'm hesitate a lot about if I should write next part, because it may touch the line corp would not like to show.
How can they hide the solution, since people suffered?
By slice the people, the social itself, lengthways.
They give everyone tags, so that people read each other by their tag, but not the real human.
Punk, is also one of these tags, if you have a tag of punk, people will reduce the attention about who you really are.
The author said good band will change and the campaign will fail very fast, that's not because become popular let them not punk anymore, but make them different people as their fans. That twist acutally crush them, at silence.
But they still have the tag of punk, and this create the chaos which will lead the fast failure.
Corp have the best of the best, a pure and simple boy like Johnney have no chance to win.
But he is still the one I respect, because his failure is not meanless.
I know the anger he has, and this inner fire of people, it will finally bring the light.
I can sure it because the history prove that. I said about my city was like NC many years ago at this forum. There were many people tried their best to change it, most of them failed very soon, some of them got some progress but failed in the end, only one made it.
Johnney, aweak my memory about one of the “got some progress”.
He planed to assassin the big bad guys, the core level of fascist. He is very good at it, the best shot he got was a general, which bring him the wanted "dead or alive" and the title of "terrorist" and a nickname "demon".
He finally dead by the wanted, after many other great assassin jobs. But, the general's death change nothing. The victory of war of anti-fascist can't be done just by kill one man, and it can't be done by one man either. Instead, the death of Hitler is the result of the battle of berlin.
That's the meaning of his sacrifce, just like the nuke of Johnney. To stop the dark future, there is only one way that people must do it together, use thier lifes for the common future of human beings.
The author said about the social fiber, but corp in real word actually not cut it all, they reorganize it by slice lengthways. And the wrong structure keep people feel good, but disintegrate the power of unite. They let people attack each other by their tags, and conceal the man who control the "later capitalistic society", even their name is open and we talk about 1% VS 99% many times.
OK, this is truly far, let's bring back to the game.
Still, I hope it can give more about how to deal with the "later capitalistic society".
But not the useless individualistic heroism tragedy, live like Johnney maybe the worst expect of Johnney because his life is tragedy and he knows that.
And the last issue, about AI and Soul-Killer. Well, this game talk about "what count as human" and "what is soul", but both simple, especially the last one.
In almost every ending, you are burned and Alt redownload you or Johnney into your body. You are also asked to test if you are still human at the rest devil ending part.
That means the game eliminate the problem itself, whatever you like or not, you have to use it to save your life.
Death is too close so that you have no room to think about other issue. It's not the good way to talk about these things, but I guess you have no time to do better.