There’s an ending in Cyberpunk 2077’s expansion, Phantom Liberty, which sees V get her own back on a singular character following a life of being betrayed and left behind. It’s a nasty, justifiable, selfish move to hand Songbird over. When she does, the US Government offers to remove Johnny Silverhand from V’s head, saving her life.

What followed had me in tears: the bittersweet goodbye exchange with Johnny, flying over a Night City sunrise, and waking up 2 years later realising that all of V’s friendships and relationships had moved on. V returns to Night City, her only remaining friend (if he ever was a friend and not an enabler) having sold out. She’s without her cybernetics and fades away into the crowd to start a new life I never got to see.


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Date
October 13, 2024