Let's see, aside from the prologue, we have the scav raid, the flathead, and the heist proper with him, which is what, three missions to get to know and mourn a guy who outright tells us he's not going to go back to being poor and gets his wish in a way he never intended?
the worst part is all of the implied friendship you get is from the intro cinematic:
takemura does make it clear it's all business and if you do the arasaka raid with rogue he does get really fucking uppity, killing his friend too is another thing that gets on his panties but game wise it's pretty much impotent rage as you are still a important asset for him, if you get yourself cured he only shows up as request and is his usual anti-foreigner, all of the entire emotional thing that V does in the game is so shit and disconnected, a streetkid V would instantly clock that takemura is being a fake ass bitch, a corpo V would respek the biz and a aldecado V should be the one "familia" dialogue you normally get when you meet him again.
To me the prologue was fine but the montage should have been a series of playable missions where you actually play as V instead of being cucked for the rest of the game.
Exactly. Play through some of the shit we see in the montage. Let the goal be to do enough gigs to get V an apartment of their own and then once you do, bam. We pick up where we do now with the Sandra Doresett rescue.
The music in the game is great in general. The tracks fit so well into the setting. I'm particularly fond of these ones
what were you expecting going with the corpo ending? a satisfying ending?
I--fuck, I was expecting to be able to continue with the theme of generally doing good by people--I thought I was helping Johnny make peace with his past so he could fade away without regrets, and Kerry ended up partnering with the "soulless corp scumbags" because their sponsored JPOP idols really liked him (though I did help him trash his manager's yacht),
I remember my brother talking about the endings to me when he was playing it a few months prior. He told me about the tower ending, which caused me to look it up, and God damn that ending is dog shit. It genuinely irritated me despite my lack of investment in 2077. Then again I think most of the game is so I'm not suprised.
Pain is a fucking tune.
I have to hear some later then, it seems I only heard the meh ones.
No, the real challenge will be to yell at him as often and as loudly as it takes for him to use more range than "laconic drawl" and occasionally "angry for a few lines". My take on Johnny was that he was a passionate man in life who ended up incredibly frustrated with how Night City hadn't changed a goddamn bit since his final performance--and now here he was, shackled to a young idiot who couldn't see the big picture and seemingly only cared about climbing to the top of a mountain of shit.