In an apparent effort to inform its audience of lore and worldbuilding some fans may have missed, Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has launched a new video series, Night City Archives, to fill in some blanks for players who began fresh with 2077.
Having this explainer, which is delivered in a characteristically slick in-universe format, is welcome, but now that it’s here, it feels like it’s been missing from the main game for years. The player is left to gather what they can about the world of Night City from context clues presented in-game, but 2077 also includes a text-based database that does woefully little to expand on any of the foundational concepts of its setting. There’s an argument to be made for this kind of worldbuilding, but in Cyberpunk 2077, where new proper nouns are getting thrown at you every half second, sometimes you need to just sit down and have things explained to you.
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