Cyberpunk: Edgerunners on Netflix (Recommended)
3 years ago
Just finished Binging Cyberpunk: Edgerunners on Netflix. It's not often you watch an Anime made from a property you have worked on. Well it was more based on Cyberpunk 2077, as it was produced by CD Projekt Red, and the story was written by a Pole, but my former Boss' name was on the first title card "Based on the world created by Mike Pondsmith. The story was a very straight Cyberpunk story, with a team consisting of three Solos, two Net runners, a Tech and a Nomad. One of those Solos, David Martinez is a prep school drop out who recently lost his mother to random gang violence and needs to find a job quick. He meets up with an attractive petty thief, who leads him into the world of the Edge runners, and the attendant money. The animation was by Studio Trigger, of Japan, and was quite well done, with backgrounds that were based on locations in Night City from the game. If you like Cyberpunk stories, this works well and has that echo of film noir plots that A lot of cyberpunk stories have. Recommended.
I run Cyberpunk Red on weekends.
Oh, there is No Cliffhanger on this series at all. I think this series is a one and done.
Never really saw them as competing with each other as Shadowrun was the hectic anime/morning Cartoon game and Cyberpunk was the classic film noir, gritty movie game.
Have fond memories from both. Jade, my Spider Aug is still remembered for the heists she pulled off.
It's a nice flexible system. Pity a lot of players around me don't give it a chance.
The show being a one and done is a plus. I am definitely going to check it out now.
But yeah, Edgerunners seems interesting. I'll have a look.