Cyberpunk: Edgerunners: Review

Head to Night City with David and see if you can survive this vicious city, in this latest Netflix anime
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners: Review

Head to Night City in Netflix anime based on CD Project Red's latest game Cyberpunk 2077 and meet up with David

Do you need to have played the video game, to watch the anime? No

Spoiler warning!
By continuing reading, you might encounter spoilers

Death x Sandevistan x Cyberpunk

David is the protagonist of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and is student at the prestige school Arasaka Academy and live with his mother, who work as a cop. He's a straight A student, but do not feel like he fit in the school and get's in trouble, when he uses illegal modifies cyberware to try to help his mother save money

His principal suggest to her mother they should consider finding another school, but she insist she'll pay for the damages and he'll stay in the school. On their way home, they get caught up in a gang shooting and as they don't have insurance, the medics do not help his mother. David tries to sell Sandevistan implant he found among her mother's belongings, but having issues finding a buyer willing to pay what he needs. While outside, he get beaten up by a rich classmate who want's him gone from the school. Shortly after, he learns his mother passed away, after complication

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Left with a huge medical debt and locked out of the apartment, with little chance of selling the Sandevistan. He decides to get it installed. After getting it installed, he meet's Lucy and start pickpocketing with her. After showing of how fast he is, with the Sandevistan. After using the Sandevistan 8-10 times in a day, David collapses and Lucy bring him to Doc. Who sells him stabilization medicine and tells David not to use it so many times in a day, even if the body can manage, the mind can not and will eventually succumb to cyberpsychosis

You don't make a name as a Cyberpunk by how you live. You're remembered by how you die
Lucy

She finds out the Sandevistan was supposed to belong to her partner, who jumps David in her apartment. After asking David how he came across the Sandevistan, he learns his mother was supposed to sell it to Maine and in honor of David's mother, he gives David a chance to prove himself

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To prove he can join Maine's crew. David first job is to steal navigation from Maxim, a driver for Arasaka. It goes sideways, when the driver gets a call and have to leave. David end up stealing the limo and get chased through the city by bounty hunters. Impressed by David's performance, Maine allow him to join the crew

Verdict

Studio Trigger have done a wonderful job with Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. It's wonderfully animated, with a good story, that will grip you and take you through an emotional roller coaster at times

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The anime has 10 episodes and is a standalone story, which ties in with the universe of Cyberpunk 2077, but not the gameplay. There's a DLC update that add some of the aspects from the anime in the game. The anime story concludes in the last episode

Our verdict: Check it out!

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