Cyberpunk: Edgerunners shows Night City has more stories to tell

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Legacies are not forged in the way a merc lives in Night City, but how they die. This idea permeates through both the game Cyberpunk 2077, and the newly released Netflix anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. 

The runners don’t lead a corpo life. They don’t get Platinum insurance with the Trauma Team. They’re not trying to secure their soul. Everyone is running from, or towards, something. And everyone runs until they can’t anymore. It’s this universal pursuit of more that Cyberpunk: Edgerunners dives deep on, to great success.

Comparisons between Cyberpunk 2077 and Cyberpunk: Edgerunners feel inevitable. Look at the snaking line of influence leading to Edgerunners; it’s a 10-episode anime series, a collaboration between Studio Trigger of Kill la Kill fame and Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red. It’s set in Night City, but one that’s adherent to both the video game and its roots in the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper role-playing game.

What results is a series with the visual flair and cinematography of Studio Trigger; the sights, sounds, and interpretations of imagined concepts into assets that can be rendered and displayed from Cyberpunk 2077; and the world, lore, and drive of Cyberpunk. And like Night City itself, all these disparate pieces click together into one whole that is spectacular.

You can see the fingerprints of Studio Trigger on Cyberpunk: Edgerunners everywhere. In obvious cases, that means the studio’s penchant for incredible action sequences, with emphasized weight and blows that rip apart everything around them. There’s no shortage of action here, and yes, there will be times where characters are practically rubbing foreheads in a verbal stand-off.

Trigger also shows some incredible character art and designs,