#cyberpunk 2077 critical

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sometimes 2 heads is not better than 1 because v and johnny combined manage to be stupider than the sum of their parts

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VEILPUNK 9:52 ⚡️

Narrative parallels between [and MAJOR SPOILERS for] Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Cyberpunk 2077

Wake up, Samurai, we have a Thedas to burn. Let’s play a game:

Meet [V]/[Rook]. She is living her life as a [nomad/streetkid/corpo]/[Dragon/Crow/Lord/Watcher/Warden] when circumstances (aka, some kind of fuck-up) lead her to begin a new adventure with her friend [Jackie Welles]/[Varric Tethras]. 

The pair embark on a mission that involves a history lesson about a mercurial and rebellious [rockerboy]/[ancient elven mage] who made a questionable choice [50]/[8000] years ago when he [detonated a nuclear bomb]/[created the Veil]. That decision had dire consequences, but was done with good intentions: to take down a corrupt and powerful group – the [Arasakas]/[Evanuris]. 

Anyway, the job that [V]/[Rook] is on goes really, really bad: needless to say, we won't be working with [Jackie]/[Varric] anymore. [V]/[Rook] finds herself injured but alive… and the previously mentioned grumpy old [rockerboy]/[elven god] is now living in her head, somehow?! 

[Jackie]/[Varric]’s fate is not the only consequence of [V]/[Rook]’s actions. In fact, the clock is ticking: if [V]/[Rook] does not find a way to fix her mistake soon, she faces certain death. Not to mention, she promised [Jackie]/[Varric] that she would take care of the [biochip]/[team] for him. 

As she works to undo what she has done, [V]/[Rook] either bonds with the [Johnny Silverhand]/[Solas] living in her head, or hates him, or something in between. There’s lots of snarky jabs traded between mind-resident and host, but also moments of genuine understanding that build over time. 

It is kind of weird walking around the world, though, because you see symbols of [Johnny]/[Solas]’s legacy in the form of [Samurai memorabilia]/[Fen’Harel statues] pretty much everywhere... anyway.

In an optional questline, [V]/[Rook] can watch some of [Johnny]/[Solas]’s memories. She learns that his [nuclear bomb]/[creating the Veil] was about more than just fighting [corpo]/[godly] corruption. It was also about avenging the death of a woman he cared for deeply: [Alt]/[Mythal], who was killed by the [Arasakas]/[Evanuris]. [Alt]/[Mythal] and [Johnny]/[Solas] may have had a complicated and at times turbulent relationship, but there was no doubt he loved her. There’s also no doubt that [Johnny]/[Solas] feels, in part, personally responsible for her death.

[V]/[Rook] also gets to meet some of [Johnny]/[Solas]’s old friends: [Kerry]/[Dorian] and [Nancy]/[Morrigan], who both worked alongside him in [Samurai]/[the Inquisition], and [Rogue]/[Inquisitor Lavellan], a highly competent woman who [Johnny]/[Solas] had a romantic relationship with at one point (and who [Johnny]/[Solas] regrets not having treated better). [V]/[Rook] also meets some of [Johnny]/[Solas]’s greatest enemies from his past – like [Adam Smasher]/[Elgar’nan] – and gets to make [Johnny]/[Solas] proud by kicking their asses on his behalf. 

Finally, at the very end of the game, [V]/[Rook] can choose to either redeem [Johnny]/[Solas] or condemn him. They can even get help from a version of [Alt]/[Mythal] to do so!

Roll credits.

This is all to say: I love both of these franchises very much and, so it is very delightful to find all of these parallels between them. To be very clear, this is not an accusation of stealing or anything – stories echo, history rhymes, etc. – just an affectionate observation.

BUT.

It also highlights, for me at least, a few things Cyberpunk did well that Veilguard would have benefitted from incorporating. Namely:

A prologue based on character origin, where Rook meets/bonds with Varric, like V does with Jackie

More interaction between Protagonist and Guy Living in the Protagonist’s Head

Deeper engagement with the universe’s lore, particularly the setting and its impact on our protagonist. Night City feels like another character in Cyberpunk in a way that Veilguard's Thedas really does not.

The protagonist having a smaller scale, more personal investment in the outcome of events – V’s race against the biochip is instantly understandable, and her tenacity and strong will to survive make her very easy to relate to and like. I never quite felt the same level of investment in Rook, and I think that’s in part because her fight against the gods is so enormous in scale that it feels quite impersonal at times. 

Story parallels aside, these two games are also both examples of games that were rushed through development and suffered for it. For Cyberpunk, that meant infamous technical failures; for Veilguard, that apparently means writing that is inconsistent at best and baffling at worst.

Fortunately, CD Projekt Red was able to add tons of post-release updates (and the excellent Phantom Liberty DLC) to Cyberpunk, that really helped it ultimately evolve into the game it was intended to be. 

Unfortunately, I think it is extremely unlikely that EA/Bioware will ever give Veilguard the same treatment.

But if I’m looking for something to hope for about this franchise (despite the long odds)... I think that would be it. 

Anyway, if you read this far: thanks, [chooms]/[lethallen]! 🖤

[mehoymalloy]

Short Circuit

(Critical Role / Cyberpunk 2077; Polyhells | Polyamorous Bells Hells, Imogen Temult/Otohan Thull)

Co-written by @inomakani and myself, as the first installment of our new series, Night City, Neon Hearts.

Unofficially for @maddytrout, who's random ask prompt about imotohan dancing up on each other inadvertently inspired an entire crossover series~

Rating, Warnings, and Tags below the cut along with the opening lines~

First Words (I'm trying a new thing lol):

‘You’re looking for an older woman—maybe late 40s, early 50s. Short white hair, kinda butch,’ Dancer says, so audibly unimpressed that Imogen can clearly imagine the bland expression she’s sporting back home. Imogen smirks as she tilts her head down, hair falling forward slightly to conceal her response. “'Kinda'?” Even though the word is silently mouthed, the SubVoc implant in Imogen’s throat translates the motions into a reproduction of her voice, clear as if she had spoken aloud but cocooned within their private, group-wide call. ‘They don’t pull it off nowhere near good as me,’ Dancer drawls. Behind Imogen, Ashton snorts aloud, stirring her hair and drawing a few wary glances from the other passengers in the packed but near-silent elevator. As they ascend, the ever-present buzz of the electromagnetic spectrum surrounding them, always alive with activity in Night City, slowly congeals into coherent data that is filtered through Imogen’s cyberdeck and subtly wired into her very consciousness—a sixth sense, easy as breathing.

Link in the Title!

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ICE'd [WIP/Flat Colors]

Its @mehoymalloy and @inomakani 's Cyberpunk CR world and I'm just drawing it OTL

Netrunners in they little ice baths is one of my favorite details abt cyberpunk 2077. Imogen deserves one

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A - Z of My Favourite Agender/Nonbinary Characters

Aziraphale - Good Omens Blanche - Pokemon GO Crowley - Good Omens The Doctor - Doctor Who Emma Rosier - Battlefield 2042 Fab G - Cinderella 2021 Garnet - Steven Universe Hermes - Stray Gods the Roleplaying Musical Imohn Idreis - Lovestruck Jae - Supernatural Academy Kazi - The Dragon Prince Loki - MCU The Master/Missy - Doctor Who Nalys Ildareth - Critical Role Obsidian - Steven Universe Paka'a Uha - The Sims 4 Q - Star Trek Raine Whispers - The Owl House Syd - One Day at a Time Tai - Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Uriel - Good Omens V - Cyberpunk 2077 Winn Harper - The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish Xavin - MCU Yena Azad - The Sims 4 Zayn Petrossian - Another Life

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