Cyberpunk 2077 wasn't always an easy game to love, but one thing I appreciated from day one was that V leaves a relatively small mark on the world. Sure, you help down a transport ship and briefly snoop for a mayoral candidate, but the movers and shakers of Night City always (rightly) treat V like a dispensable street punk—a barrel to be aimed in the direction of your nearest problem.
Well, this punk's next mission is to save the president, and my partner-in-cybercrime is Idris Elba. OK technically he's a superspy named Solomon Reed, but in the same way that I exclusively called Johnny Silverhand "Keanu" in my first two playthroughs, I plan to play Phantom Liberty like it's a buddy cop movie with my best pal Idris. It's an Escape From New York situation that lands V in the middle this mess—my demo jumped around through the early parts of the story, but the gist is that the local leader of Phantom Liberty's new district, Dogtown, shoots down Space Force One and V is the most capable mercenary around to help.
