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This Week in Anime - Cyberpunk Edgerunners is a Certified Crowdpleaser

I mostly left the show disappointed, the visual and direction were going to carry the show trough any kind of story, so why go for the laziest most cliche one? Take some chance trigger. This feel like in a few years people will still share the sakuga moment but nobody will remember anything about the story beyond a vague "oh it was really tragic", which wasn't even that earned imo.

Do agree that the gremlin was the best character of the show, but here again that work mostly against the show because she thrown so much shadow at Lucy and her and David relationship makes a mockery of David/Lucy.

Adam Smasher is indeed in cyberpunk 2077, and he's a fairly important character with a pretty similar impact on the story and part of a whole revenge subplot spoiler[(essentially the game final boss)].

meiam wrote:

I mostly left the show disappointed, the visual and direction were going to carry the show trough any kind of story, so why go for the laziest most cliche one? Take some chance trigger. This feel like in a few years people will still share the sakuga moment but nobody will remember anything about the story beyond a vague "oh it was really tragic", which wasn't even that earned imo.

This is really due to the nature of the project. I have no doubt it was initially pitched as a really expensive ad/image rehab for Cyberpunk the game, so it pretty much had to take place in Night City where they could drop visual and name Easter Eggs. But that also meant they couldn't reshape the world in any major way. No huge damage to Arasaka, no killing of important to game lore characters, etc. So they went with a pretty classic dystopian cyberpunk tale, people living hard and fast, burning bright and crashing spectacularly. It isn't a new story, but then again how many truly are these days?

Has Trigger ever made a genuine turd or something very medicore even if that is very subjective? I don’t know which of their works is outright disliked but I’ve liked all of them, some just less than others.

Has Trigger ever made a genuine turd or something very medicore even if that is very subjective? I don’t know which of their works is outright disliked but I’ve liked all of them, some just less than others.

I thought the anime was fantastic.

And now I'm going to get controversial... I also thought the game was fantastic. On a par with Witcher 3 and probably better than it once it hits its stride. Ok, I played it on a PC with a decent spec, so I missed the worst of the release woes (and that console release was inexcusable), but there is still a hell of a game in there, provided you accept it for what it is. What it isn't is "Grand Theft Auto: Night City", despite some of the pre-release marketing. And thank god for that, because it's a lot better than GTA.

The article notes how sheer bloody awful Night City is and how everybody constantly lives with the risk of being dragged down into the muck by it. The game - if you can play it without immersion breaking stuff - absolutely captures that. I don't think I've ever seen a piece of media nail atmosphere so well. It also deserves props for fantastic voice work - my female corpo-background V had possibly the best English-language voice acting I've ever heard, with a perfect mix of desperation and bravado.

One day we'll hopefully be able to talk about the game, not the release mess, and that would be fantastic. Because as much as people raved about the Bloody Baron after Witcher 3 came out, that's got nothing on Cyberpunk's Jailhouse Jesus.

Hopefully one day, someone will release proper subtitles for this and I can actually watch it. The current ones by Netflix barely match anything being said.

CrypticPurpose wrote:

Hopefully one day, someone will release proper subtitles for this and I can actually watch it. The current ones by Netflix barely match anything being said.

I've rambled about my issues with this series in the review thread, but I will say that the English dub is excellent.

Has Trigger ever made a genuine turd or something very medicore even if that is very subjective? I don’t know which of their works is outright disliked but I’ve liked all of them, some just less than others.