This text incorporates severe spoilers for the Netflix animated sequence Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.
Cyberpunk 2077’s 2.0 replace features a touching tribute to the fallen solid of Netflix’s Edgerunners anime, which has led some to take a position {that a} character from the sequence may very well be hiding out someplace in Evening Metropolis.
The tributes had been found by gamers exploring Evening Metropolis’s Columbarium, a location on the eastern side of the game map that serves as a cemetery. Right here, the cremated stays of the dystopian metropolis’ deceased residents are laid to relaxation, accompanied by a neon sigil representing their character, and a brief epitaph.
Edgerunners’ 10-episode run noticed the demise of plenty of fan-favourite characters, a few of which met their brutal ends by the hands of the cybernetic monstrosity Adam Smasher. Cyberpunk 2077’s current 2.0 replace added plenty of new niches to the Columbarium, honouring the lifeless edgerunners.
they put the graves of the edgerunner characters ?? #Cyberpunk2077 #CyberpunkEdgerunners #Cyberpunk2077PhantomLiberty pic.twitter.com/2a238aWMRV
— xKraziKai (@xKraziKai) September 21, 2023
Amongst them are memorials for David and Gloria Martinez, Kiwi, Rebecca, Julio, and one other for Pilar, Dorio, and Maine. David’s epitaph is especially heartwrenching, studying: “you didn’t take me to the Moon, however you had been there with me,” in reference to the ultimate scene of the sequence.
Gamers had been fast to theorise that one other Edgerunner character, Lucy Kushinada, was accountable for establishing the memorials, which led some to consider she may very well be on the market someplace in Evening Metropolis, dwelling her digital life. “She on the market someplace girls and boys. I wish to consider,” commented Reddit user Gylfagi3, whereas Dadude564, agreed “Lucy in Phantom Liberty confirmed”.
Cyberpunk 2077’s first and solely main DLC Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty drops subsequent week, following the now-released replace 2.0, which introduced a big vary of enhancements and adjustments to the bottom recreation. In our 9/10 evaluation IGN mentioned that “Phantom Liberty marks a brand new chapter for Cyberpunk 2077, and is lastly near what I’d hoped it might be”.
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