Cyberpunk 2077’s new ending shattered my heart in an unexpected way

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Now that Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty has been out for roughly a week, players are reaching the new ending for the base game. It’s one of the expansion’s selling points and one of the biggest curiosities for me.

I’ve beaten Cyberpunk 2077 several times since its launch, and I like how it handles several of its endings. If not outright tragic, many are bittersweet. V’s best-case scenario is having about six months to live as they’re essentially an engram in their own body. Despite having little time to live, they can still become a legend by taking on an impossible feat, with all roads leading to one climactic finale.

My assumption going into Phantom Liberty‘s new ending was that it’d somehow tie into this last-ditch effort. I wasn’t sure how much sense it’d make to incorporate the NUSA in the base game’s climax, but I would have been here for it.

What I got makes far more sense and is far more devastating than I imagined. I wasn’t expecting a happy ending, but Cyberpunk 2077‘s new conclusion is upsetting. I don’t want to go ahead and call this a “Bad End”, but it hit in a way I couldn’t have foreseen.

As a precaution, there are heavy spoilers for Cyberpunk 2077‘s new ending since I’ll be going over most of its important details. Also best to bring tissues for this one.

I admit, I wasn’t expecting V to find a cure in this new Tower ending, but they do. It’s honestly the only ending V can definitively live beyond their twenties, but the price for life is high.

When Solomon Reed informs V of a procedure for extracting the Relic, the promise is a days-long surgery before weeks of recovery in an undisclosed location. Another part of this promise is that V could return to their life in Night City after surgery if they