When I moved into my apartment five years ago, the first thing I did to make it feel homely was set down pictures of my family and friends. With a framed photo of my eight-year-old self tightly hugging my dad outside the front door of my childhood house, a snapshot of me in my teens smiling next to my mum, and little polaroids of the family dog Freddie, I also decorated my kitchen with very special photo booth strips taken at my late uncle's wedding some months later. Suddenly, this new, foreign place that I'd moved into started to feel more personal, that it was actually my space. It's natural to want to fill your home with things that you love, which is why the addition of SmartFrames in Cyberpunk 2077 is such a meaningful touch.
In the 2.2 update that was released back in December last year, CD Projekt Red introduced a variety of welcome features, such as more cosmetic character customization options, new paint job tech for certain vehicles, and Johnny Silverhand's occasional presence in the passenger seat of your car – which is a personal favorite. But from a role-playing perspective, the SmartFrames are far and away what I appreciate the most. The mounted digital screens allow you to display your screenshots in any one of V's various abodes, along with an overhauled photo mode that lets you add in NPCs, I've fallen in love with the way the Kiroshi frames let me make V's homes feel as personal as my own place in real life.
