Memory is a funny thing. Two people can have different recollections of the same occasion thanks to personal perspective, and the passage of time may influence how you interpret your own past experiences. But what would happen if someone could get inside your head and deliberately tamper with your memories? Poking and prodding until they fundamentally changed who you are? How could you handle your day-to-day life when you start questioning everything you ever thought you knew about yourself and your history? These are questions that come to the surface during the most unsettling quest in Cyberpunk 2077 – which happens to also be my personal favorite.
While there are plenty of memorable quests and gigs in CD Projekt Red's RPG, the side job Dream On refuses to leave my mind. Each time I replay it, I find it just as disquieting as the first time I experienced it. What begins as a simple break-in investigation soon unravels into a dark web of shady politics and mind-altering manipulation. It steadily becomes apparent that something much bigger and far more sinister is going on than first meets the eye, and the way it all unfolds always hooks me right in. Even now, after trying out each possible solution at the end of the quest, I'm still not sure what the best course of action is, which only makes me appreciate it more.
