Cyberbang 2069 Interview: How It Got CDPR's Permission To Bang Johnny Silverhand

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Cyberbang 2069 might sound like a porn parody of Cyberpunk 2077, but there’s much more to it than that. Yes, it takes the existing characters of Cyberpunk and transplants them into the more erotic setting of a visual novel/dating sim, but it’s not cheap titilation to cash in on a popular video game, but instead is closer to lovingly crafted fanfiction to better explore a world the game only scratches the surface of. I recently sat down with the developers Nara, Bean, and Celest of Triple Taste to see how the idea first came about.

“It started after playing the whole story of Cyberpunk 2077,” Nara, the game’s artist, tells me. “I was basically sad because I couldn’t date Goro in Cyberpunk 2077. As a straight Fem V I was given one choice only. River is okay, but one romanceable character? It's just sad.”

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While Goro was the spark for the game, the fires weren’t lit until Nara stumbled across another character for a fleeting moment. “My depression led me to liking a guy called Sandayu Oda, who has only 15 minutes of screen time and zero chance to date. So I decided to make a dating sim with him. At first, the game was called The Rematch, with only Oda as a love interest. But our team grew and more people wanted to see more people to date. So we choose Goro, Johnny, and Hanako. Since the Hanako path has a bit of a problem, we had to drop it and replace her with Vik. So here we are now, with a full path for Sandayu Oda, and three demos for Goro Takemura, Viktor Vektor, and Johnny Silverhand.”

You may be struggling to remember Sandayu Oda. With 130 hours in Cyberpunk 2077 myself, my first thought upon seeing him in the visual novel was ‘oh yeah, that