It's a hyper-alienated end-stage capitalist world, you morons. Also
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The good ending can only be achieved if you choose to accept help from the close knit community of outcasts
Capitalists not entirely missing the point of media challenge.
It's a hyper-alienated end-stage capitalist world, you morons. Also
The good ending can only be achieved if you choose to accept help from the close knit community of outcasts
Capitalists not entirely missing the point of media challenge.
The best ending to me honestly feels like the one where you
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solo Arasaka Tower so friends don't die and then choose to join the gestAlt consciousness and give Johnny the body, getting a terrifying unknown journey with sorta immortality feels like the least shit outcome. The only problem is that the little characterization V actually gets is that they don't actually fear death, but rather fear ego death and the annihilation of identity, which doesn't really gel at all with them seeing the positive in that outcome.
Honestly the worst part of the game is that V is too much of a blank slate to get any interesting character development but not enough of one to stay out of the way, every moral consequence is railroaded and it feels like it.