Cyberpunk 2077 2.0's new Edgerunners easter eggs just hit me with an existential crisis all over again

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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is fantastic, and—like Cyberpunk 2077 itself—it's something I hadn't engaged with until recently. I'm new to the post-corpo war hellscape of this setting, but I figured after sinking about 20 hours into the game itself I might as well check out this anime everyone's been raving about. Spoilers ahead for Edgerunners, obviously.

I knew from my friends that the series was an emotional gut-punch, and through osmosis I knew that it ended in tragedy. That knowledge didn't help. Battling off a cold last weekend, I wrapped myself up in a blanket and watched the tidy ten episodes in a single day. This was a mistake.

Edgerunners is an achingly beautiful tragedy brave enough to ask: «hey, what if Juliet's family also died, but she lived, and she had to live the rest of her life alone?» The answer to that question is «it'll rip your heart open». I'm a sucker for a good tragic love story, so by the end credits I was a bubbling mess. Nearly made it, too, but that final scene on the moon. Man.

So imagine my horror when I discovered that the Cyberpunk's 2.0 update added some new «fun» easter eggs in the Columbarium, a type of memorial graveyard which stores the cremains of the dead. While that's a thing in real life, it's the preferred method in Night City because people kept digging up the dead to nick their implants. Grim.

If you visit, you'll be able to find memorials for a lot of characters—including Edgerunner's cast. The real sobering implication is that Lucy, the aforementioned Juliet stand-in I mentioned, likely had to go and place these herself. I decided to go and check them out, and all I can really say is: ow.

This is great for fans who've had the time to emotionally recover from Edgerunner's punk,