did you enjoy more the characters or the plot?
| i enjoyed the plot more especially the plot about CyberPsychosis "too much cybernetics can overload the brain and make you crazy" while the characters made me feel nothing after a few days besides Lucy because im a simple man so how about you? |
| Protagonist gradually descending further into villainy is an uncommon trope, that I wish would be used more often. Gore was way over the top and obviously forced at times, tho. |
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| I normally never post, but I feel personally inclined... I genuinely cannot express just how sad I feel as the end of this anime. The time and dedication that went into creating such unique and likeable characters, perhaps is the biggest and largest wasted opportunity for the entire Cyberpunk Franchise. I'm heartbroken that David and Lucy don't get their "happily ever after" moment, and feel like I've kind of been robbed of that happiness by these useless writers that always have to take the 'sad-ending' because it's what the masses now synonymies with 'good writing' nowadays. Yeah, sure I get the idea behind the series and Night City being "live fast and trying to claw your way up and become a 'legend', or die because there is no escape", but if you consider the underlying idea of the series (to promote and drive Cyberpunk 2077 sales), it's hard to fathom how the writer's would've thought that killing off the characters (arguably the best designed and most appealing facet of the show) would entice a pleasurable feeling in their viewers, nudging them to experience the game in its entirety. I'll be the first to admit, that yes I am bias and pissed that I didn't get the ending I wanted. But when the ending I wanted is in your f*cking corporate best interest to supply, don't bloody rob your viewer-base of that final result for the sake of having a 'unique' or 'realistic' ending. Rebecca, Lucy and David were arguably some of the best well-written characters that we've been lucky to experience in recent times, heck even Kiwi and Maine too. Each of them is flawed in their own sense, and act on their own ambitions which is what made them feel so lively. But in what world do corporate officials, or the individuals green-lighting this ending believe that the finale of the season will send people buying the game? And while I'm not too sure if others feel the same way, I personally feel as though it makes me want to run in the opposite direction to seek therapy instead – yes it elicits a strong response, but I promise you that individuals like me would be far more inclined to purchase the game if Lucy and David did end up together, and if Rebecca lived. What a significantly wasted opportunity to include these characters in the upcoming Edgerunners update, and for us to effectively become part of their crew. It really is a shame for how good this show was. I hope they retcon their ending and go ahead with a season 2, bring David and Lucy back and have the dream team take down the corruption in Night City. |
| The characters. The plot is generic. But the anime has style and for the first 6 episodes it's a blast through and through coz of the fun characters and amazing sequences (that whole scene in ep 4 where he is running with Lucy, then talking to Maine - scenes like that are what made this show so fun). It's still great after ep 6, but it loses some of its style and is greatly carried by Rebecca. |
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| All the characters were good imo, with brilliant character designs (especially Lucy, Maine, Adam smasher and faraday) but none of them were spectacular in terms of character development as there clearly wasn’t enough time, and that wasn’t the intention either, even though in the end the main 2 did get a bit of development they could’ve easily added a few more episodes onto the end, or even had slowed the pacing down and made 2 seasons, so that they could develop characters more and not just shoehorn in information etc, and it wouldn’t feel like they were going for a cash grab - that’s one of my only critiques. But nevertheless, the actual characters and designs, aside from the development were very good. Plot was also pretty simple, but effective as these type of stories don’t necessarily need an intricate plot, clearly the emotional value held much more importance, plot held its own, was a basic but strong one, although there was never a clear goal apart from ‘follow in maine’s footstep and save Lucy from trouble’. Also think that it was a good decision not to make the plot any more intricate, because it was hard enough to follow everything as it is due to all the information and worldbuilding that got crammed into 10 episodes (Netflix subs made it 100x worse lol). Overall, neither were spectacular, but they had no need to be. Kept simple, but done in a very effective way, can’t really fault either of these aspects. |
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