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There are few examples of games in recent years that have had a more contentious start than Cyberpunk 2077. When it originally released, CP dropped with a slew of issues ranging from empty streets to recurrences of broken loading. Even PSN pulled the title from its online selling due to the issues that ran so rampant across nearly every player's experience. As time went on, patches and fixes helped to bring it to playability for Next Gen consoles and PC while still rendering it next to useless for the Playstation 4 and XBox One generations. I was one of those people who had been so looking forward to the amazingness CD Projekt promised with Cyberpunk, especially after being so wowed by The Witcher 3, only to have my heart broken when I tried to get into the game on my PS4. It just wasn't happening, and so I put my hopes for a true Blade Runner-esque game to the wayside for a bit. Now in 2025, one of my close friends highly recommended CP with such fervor that I had to throw it on and see how right or wrong he was.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world action game with RPG elements. It places you in the driver's seat as V, a mercenary in California's Night City hell bent on making a name for his/herself. V works with "fixers" in the city to grab odd jobs and "gigs" for cash, street cred, and the chance to touch immortality. V's best friend, or choom, is a big guy named Jackie Welles. Jackie's dream is to hit the big leagues in Night City, and he wants to use V and a fixer named Dexter Deshaun to do so. With their team working together, they plan to hit a score against the Arasaka Corporation that will be enough to put them on the map while also securing their finances for the foreseeable future. Everyone is about to have it made, until they suddenly don't. Enter Johnny Silverhand, the true core of Cyberpunk's story and the yin to V's yang. Johnny's soul has been secured in a digital construct that ends up in V's brain, desperate to take it over and continue a rampage of hatred against corporations. It becomes V's sole task and burden to ensure that he/she doesn't lose their mind, body, and soul to the parasitic rocker taking hold. Meanwhile, friends and foes alike work with and against V to take Night City by storm.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world action game with RPG elements. It places you in the driver's seat as V, a mercenary in California's Night City hell bent on making a name for his/herself. V works with "fixers" in the city to grab odd jobs and "gigs" for cash, street cred, and the chance to touch immortality. V's best friend, or choom, is a big guy named Jackie Welles. Jackie's dream is to hit the big leagues in Night City, and he wants to use V and a fixer named Dexter Deshaun to do so. With their team working together, they plan to hit a score against the Arasaka Corporation that will be enough to put them on the map while also securing their finances for the foreseeable future. Everyone is about to have it made, until they suddenly don't. Enter Johnny Silverhand, the true core of Cyberpunk's story and the yin to V's yang. Johnny's soul has been secured in a digital construct that ends up in V's brain, desperate to take it over and continue a rampage of hatred against corporations. It becomes V's sole task and burden to ensure that he/she doesn't lose their mind, body, and soul to the parasitic rocker taking hold. Meanwhile, friends and foes alike work with and against V to take Night City by storm.
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There are few examples of games in recent years that have had a more contentious start than Cyberpunk 2077. When it originally released, CP dropped with a slew of issues ranging from empty streets to recurrences of broken loading. Even PSN pulled the title from its online selling due to the issues that ran so rampant across nearly every player's experience. As time went on, patches and fixes helped to bring it to playability for Next Gen consoles and PC while still rendering it next to useless for the Playstation 4 and XBox One generations. I was one of those people who had been so looking forward to the amazingness CD Projekt promised with Cyberpunk, especially after being so wowed by The Witcher 3, only to have my heart broken when I tried to get into the game on my PS4. It just wasn't happening, and so I put my hopes for a true Blade Runner-esque game to the wayside for a bit. Now in 2025, one of my close friends highly recommended CP with such fervor that I had to throw it on and see how right or wrong he was.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world action game with RPG elements. It places you in the driver's seat as V, a mercenary in California's Night City hell bent on making a name for his/herself. V works with "fixers" in the city to grab odd jobs and "gigs" for cash, street cred, and the chance to touch immortality. V's best friend, or choom, is a big guy named Jackie Welles. Jackie's dream is to hit the big leagues in Night City, and he wants to use V and a fixer named Dexter Deshaun to do so. With their team working together, they plan to hit a score against the Arasaka Corporation that will be enough to put them on the map while also securing their finances for the foreseeable future. Everyone is about to have it made, until they suddenly don't. Enter Johnny Silverhand, the true core of Cyberpunk's story and the yin to V's yang. Johnny's soul has been secured in a digital construct that ends up in V's brain, desperate to take it over and continue a rampage of hatred against corporations. It becomes V's sole task and burden to ensure that he/she doesn't lose their mind, body, and soul to the parasitic rocker taking hold. Meanwhile, friends and foes alike work with and against V to take Night City by storm.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world action game with RPG elements. It places you in the driver's seat as V, a mercenary in California's Night City hell bent on making a name for his/herself. V works with "fixers" in the city to grab odd jobs and "gigs" for cash, street cred, and the chance to touch immortality. V's best friend, or choom, is a big guy named Jackie Welles. Jackie's dream is to hit the big leagues in Night City, and he wants to use V and a fixer named Dexter Deshaun to do so. With their team working together, they plan to hit a score against the Arasaka Corporation that will be enough to put them on the map while also securing their finances for the foreseeable future. Everyone is about to have it made, until they suddenly don't. Enter Johnny Silverhand, the true core of Cyberpunk's story and the yin to V's yang. Johnny's soul has been secured in a digital construct that ends up in V's brain, desperate to take it over and continue a rampage of hatred against corporations. It becomes V's sole task and burden to ensure that he/she doesn't lose their mind, body, and soul to the parasitic rocker taking hold. Meanwhile, friends and foes alike work with and against V to take Night City by storm.
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I think it might be rare that I come across a game that has no connection to my childhood in any fashion. The original Prince of Persia was released in the 80's, with the most famous adaptations coming after Ubisoft purchased the franchise rights in the early 2000's. This also led to a film adaptation with Jake Gyllenhaal, and the rest is - as they say - history. Persian history, at least.
For whatever reason, I was never really into trying the games. That changed with the day one release of The Rogue Prince of Persia on Playstation Plus.
I've been a fan of roguelite games for a little while now. Hades is a lot of fun, and Children of Morta is just plain incredible. I was more than eager to try a roguelite that would involve some sidescrolling and platformer action, and The Rogue Prince of Persia did not disappoint.
Evil Empire's take on the Ubisoft-published franchise involves a new prince, as most of the iterations of the series have. Like many of his predecessors, the Prince (as that's simply what he's called) is arrogant and brash. What separates this young man from the rest is the fact that he has an amulet that prevents his demise. Anytime he dies, he wakes up again on the same morning that he last awoke on. This comes in handy when the Huns invade his lands and begin kidnapping/massacring his people on the whims of a tyrannical leader that has stumbled on a mind-changing substance that looks like a black ooze. It's not the most historically accurate portrayal of Persia... but I guess no one asked Ahura Mazda his feelings on the subject, anyway.
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For whatever reason, I was never really into trying the games. That changed with the day one release of The Rogue Prince of Persia on Playstation Plus.
I've been a fan of roguelite games for a little while now. Hades is a lot of fun, and Children of Morta is just plain incredible. I was more than eager to try a roguelite that would involve some sidescrolling and platformer action, and The Rogue Prince of Persia did not disappoint.
Evil Empire's take on the Ubisoft-published franchise involves a new prince, as most of the iterations of the series have. Like many of his predecessors, the Prince (as that's simply what he's called) is arrogant and brash. What separates this young man from the rest is the fact that he has an amulet that prevents his demise. Anytime he dies, he wakes up again on the same morning that he last awoke on. This comes in handy when the Huns invade his lands and begin kidnapping/massacring his people on the whims of a tyrannical leader that has stumbled on a mind-changing substance that looks like a black ooze. It's not the most historically accurate portrayal of Persia... but I guess no one asked Ahura Mazda his feelings on the subject, anyway.
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