Creator of radical Starfield stealth kill montage talks virtual choreography and Cyberpunk 2077—'regarding combat and stealth … Cyberpunk takes the cake'

pcgamer.com:

I love a good choreographed kill video. There's something so crunchy and satisfying about seeing someone elevate a game like Starfield—similar to the rush you get watching your favourite wrestler or a movie like John Wick. You know it's all been pre-planned, you know there's some kayfabe involved, but it's sick enough that you don't care. 

That's exactly what Benjamin_Winters has pulled off with this video: tearing through a Spacer base, telekinetically launching mines, headshotting fools with a silenced pistol, and descending on the game's poor redshirts with a Katana from above. It's raw, unfiltered main character energy—especially when they hit the low-grav and pull out a minigun to carve through foes as they dangle helplessly in the air. 

There's something fascinating about getting a peek behind the curtain, breaking that fourth wall, and seeing all the wires behind the stunts. It rarely makes those feats less impressive. PC Gamer's Tyler Wilde reached out to the above video's creator to ask them about their process.

"[The Starfield stealth video] was preplanned and choreographed to make sure it flowed well and I could use the game's abilities without being too redundant. Starfield's stealth mechanics are a bit harsh so I had to find the 'correct' route to dispatch the NPCs … I didn't use any mods or console commands to make the video, so generally, anyone with enough patience and the right build could replicate it!"

Winters, a self-described «Night City Resident», mainly makes these kinds of videos in Cyberpunk 2077. I think my favourite has to be this one of a lore-accurate Johnny Silverhand, where they enter bullet time to huck a grenade straight up, which later drops like the proverbial penny on a couple of