I am at all times very skeptical of makes an attempt to tie specific themes in literature and movie to some kind of ineffable nationwide character. Certainly nations are too unusual, massive and different to be diminished to one thing quintessential and everlasting. Certainly they’re an excessive amount of changeable beasts of historical past to own any attribute that may endure and converse throughout centuries and millennia. Certainly you possibly can’t simply say ‘collection X is like this as a result of folks from Y are like this’.
Besides Edgerunners. Edgerunners is unhappy as a result of Polish persons are unhappy. QED.
Do not take my phrase for it. Take the phrase of collection author (and franchise artistic director at CD Projekt Crimson) Bartosz Sztybor (through Eurogamer). Sztybor just lately took to the stage on the LA Anime Expo—the identical one Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ second season received introduced at—to reply for his crimes. Specifically, making all of us very morose with how the primary season shook out.
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“We’re an organization from Poland,” stated Sztybor. “I am from Poland and folks in Poland are unhappy. They’re born unhappy, they die unhappy, so I simply wished to make the entire world unhappy.” Each relatable and admirable.
Additionally, simply in case it is not clear, that is a joke, and Sztybor does delve a bit into his severe justification for making us unhappy—one which I reckon applies not simply to Edgerunner however to just about any collection (video games included) the studio has labored on. “Human tales are essential for CD Projekt Crimson,” stated Sztybor, “we at all times wish to write tales which can be character-driven.” After which, the unstated half presumably goes, do horrible issues to these characters to upset you.
It is a basic within the CDPR field o’ methods, going proper again to poor little Alvin in The Witcher 1, and boy if it does not at all times appear to repay for the studio. Did you go into Edgerunners, or Cyberpunk 2077 itself, anticipating a cheerful end result for anybody concerned? I did not. Was I devastated when the completely satisfied end result I did not count on did not occur? You guess.
“When persons are unhappy, then I am a bit completely satisfied,” says Sztybor. I believe Edgerunners 2 will make him happier than ever.
