October 30, 2023 at 12:15 p.m. by Rhonda Bachmann – Cyberpunk 2077 received its first and only expansion in September with Phantom Liberty. The developers decided against setting the new story after the end of the main game. According to Narrative Director Igor Sarzyński, the intention was never to water down the endings.
The first and last expansion for Cyberpunk 2077, released in 2020, Phantom Liberty, lets players experience a new story in the run-down area of Dogtown. However, the narrative does not begin after the end of the main game. The respective endings for the protagonist V remain untouched because the developers at CD Projekt never considered a continuation of the main story, said the narrative director Igor Sarzyński in a conversation with colleagues at PC Gamer.
“Sometimes less is more”
“We considered a few other scenarios,” Sarzyński said of the development of Phantom Liberty in a question-and-answer email to PC Gamer. “But none of these were a continuation of the game’s main story.” The endings of the main story would be too different for a single path to make sense for everyone. The developers also didn’t want to choose one of the endings as the true ending and thereby invalidate all other decisions.
“The endings are written the way we wanted them,” the narrative director continued. “They leave players feeling uneasy, force them to think and don’t give easy answers. They stay in their minds. We don’t need to water them down. Sometimes less is more.”
Even though Phantom Liberty doesn’t follow on from the main game, the expansion released in September adds a new ending to the story. However, according to Sarzyński, this fits well into Cyberpunk 2077’s pre-existing endings rather than overwriting them. According to the developer, the team always wanted an alternative ending with a different fate for the protagonist V. “But the costs for this had to be enormous,” says Sarzyński.
Those: PC Gamer, GamingShop
2023-10-30 23:49:49
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