Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was a depression-fest as a result of its author is 'from Poland and other people in Poland are unhappy. They’re born unhappy, they die unhappy, so I simply wished to make the entire world unhappy'
I am at all times very skeptical of makes an attempt to tie explicit themes in literature and movie to some kind of ineffable nationwide character. Absolutely nations are too unusual, massive and diverse to be decreased to one thing quintessential and everlasting. Absolutely they’re an excessive amount of changeable beasts of historical past to own any attribute that may endure and converse throughout centuries and millennia. Absolutely you’ll be able to’t simply say ‘collection X is like this as a result of folks from Y are like this’.
Besides Edgerunners. Edgerunners is unhappy as a result of Polish persons are unhappy. QED.
Do not take my phrase for it. Take the phrase of collection author (and franchise artistic director at CD Projekt Crimson) Bartosz Sztybor (through Eurogamer). Sztybor lately took to the stage on the LA Anime Expo—the identical one Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ second season obtained introduced at—to reply for his crimes. Particularly, making all of us very morose with how the primary season shook out.
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“We’re an organization from Poland,” stated Sztybor. “I am from Poland and other people in Poland are unhappy. They’re born unhappy, they die unhappy, so I simply wished to make the entire world unhappy.” Each relatable and admirable.
Additionally, simply in case it isn’t clear, that is a joke, and Sztybor does delve a bit into his critical justification for making us unhappy—one which I reckon applies not simply to Edgerunner however to just about any collection (video games included) the studio has labored on. “Human tales are necessary for CD Projekt Crimson,” stated Sztybor, “we at all times wish to write tales which can be character-driven.” After which, the unstated half presumably goes, do horrible issues to these characters to upset you.
It is a basic within the CDPR field o’ tips, going proper again to poor little Alvin in The Witcher 1, and boy if it would not at all times appear to repay for the studio. Did you go into Edgerunners, or Cyberpunk 2077 itself, anticipating a contented end result for anybody concerned? I did not. Was I devastated when the comfortable end result I did not count on did not occur? You wager.
“When persons are unhappy, then I am a bit comfortable,” says Sztybor. I believe Edgerunners 2 will make him happier than ever.