Cyberpunk 2077 lets gamers select both a male or feminine model of protagonist V to play as, however developer CD Projekt Pink made them each equally legitimate from the very starting of growth.
Talking on the Answered Podcast, CD Projekt Pink lead quest designer Błażej Augustynek revealed an fascinating tactic the developer used to make sure the character did not have one specific world view.
“Comic story, after we had been engaged on Cyberpunk we made the aware resolution that the hunt designers had been going to think about V as a feminine character, whereas the writers consider V as a male character,” Augustynek stated. “So we did not need to have any type of gaze, be it a feminine gaze or male gaze, and strategy to the world.”
Augustynek stated that, for him, V will at all times be a lady, and he does not consider the person model as the true one. However different employees inside CD Projekt Pink will seemingly consider the other. The subject has been hotly debated since Cyberpunk 2077 was launched, with gamers questioning which one is the canon character or who feels extra genuine in the world. Nevertheless it seems, it is each.
CD Projekt Pink narrative director Philipp Weber stated it was a stark distinction from engaged on The Witcher video games too, as a lot of the studio, if not all, was very conversant in longtime protagonist Geralt of Rivia.
“It was an actual aware voice as a result of we had been used to Geralt,” he stated. “We had been at all times used to writing for Geralt, making quests for Geralt, so after we knew, ‘Okay, we’re making a brand new character, and that character will also be a lady,’ we simply made it a rule after we wrote our quest design paperwork to at all times write ‘she’. So we remind ourselves in our mind that it is a totally different type of character, the place now we even have to contemplate greater than possibly with Geralt.”
Cyberpunk 2077’s growth is now all however full, with CD Projekt Pink releasing the ultimate main replace for it, Replace 2.1, earlier in December 2023. Followers anticipated the sport altering Replace 2.0, which arrived alongside the Phantom Liberty growth in September, to be the ultimate large patch for Cyberpunk 2077 till CD Projekt Pink introduced a remaining one would arrive alongside the brand new Final Version.
Replace 2.0 laid the muse for the brand new Cyberpunk 2077 expertise, utterly revamping the sport with options similar to a brand new perk system and improved AI. It additionally introduced closure to an Elon Musk fan concept, a reference to the late racing legend Ken Block, and weird additions to the sport’s largest thriller.
In our 9/10 evaluate of the growth, IGN stated: “Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty completes an immense turnaround for CD Projekt Pink’s future RPG kickstarted with the anime spin-off, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and its newest 2.0 Replace.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.