Night City, City of Dreams.

But under the surface, it's a nightmare.

Past the mega corpse, the gangs, the crime.

There's a conspiracy built to drive you insane.

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Today we're talking about an urban cityscape coated in neon and sprinkled with characters ooze in so much swag that I know they're too cool to hang out with me.

Cyberpunk 2077.

In case you somehow missed the Keanu Reeves level hype around...

Cyberpunk.

This was a video game that didn't exactly have itself the smoothest launch.

Yeah, despite the fantastic writing, art, and gameplay, the greedy corpos at the head of the company

definitely pushed this thing out the door a couple years before it was ready.

And though the devs certainly kept polishing it over the years, Cyberpunk 2077 looked

to go down in history as a cautionary tale against releasing games early.

Or at least, that was the case until the release of the Netflix

anime, Cyberpunk Edge Runners.

Edge Runners.

Another word for Cyberpunk.

So then, this is titled, Cyberpunk, Cyberpunk? Weird.

Edge Runners is incredible. Following the tragic love story of mercenaries, David and Lucy

as they descend into the underbelly of Knight City, a capitalist dystopia run by

mega corporations. It is no exaggeration to say that this anime single-handedly saved the brand,

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