A Hidden Cyberpunk 2077 Braindance Detail Uncovers An Eerie & Disturbing Truth

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A hidden detail makes one of the game's more disturbing braindances even more eerie. Throughout CD Projekt Red's sci-fi RPG, players are able to relive moments from other Night City residents' perspectives through a virtual reality-type recording called braindances, which lets V feel their emotional states and anything they physically felt, as well as watching events unfold. In the universe, this is used as a major form of entertainment covering adult content, adrenaline chasers, and more, but V often uses them as ways to help with investigations, rewinding the footage and inspecting it on different levels to find clues.

Braindances can be viewed in three ways in its editor, Visual, which plays back events as the person recording would have seen them, Thermal, which highlights the temperature of some items or characters, and Audio, which hones in on specific sounds in the environment or dialogue.

This is the case during 's side quest, where V helps former NCPD detective River Ward with the search for his missing nephew, Randy. While searching on Randy's computer, V and River find various ominous files, and with the help of one of River's police acquaintances, Joss, they're able to pull several braindances from them that could lead to the location of Randy's kidnapper.

These braindances are all told from the perspective of Anthony Harris, a serial killer who abducted and murdered Night City's youth at Edgewood Farm over several years before he was ultimately defeated by the NCPD in 2077. Harris was raised by his strict father, who used corporal punishment if a young Anthony made any mistakes. This harshness seems to stem from the fact he seemingly blamed Anthony for her death, outright saying he "" when chastising him for not checking the chemical and hormone levels of the livestock.

The braindances show several events from Anthony's childhood and explain how the abuse he endured seemed to manifest the pathologic behavior that would later result in his killings.