The upcoming release of the Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty expansion has motivated me to once again hit the streets of Night City and start over fresh. But instead of simply repeating my way through another playthrough, I'm doing things a little differently. Phantom Liberty promises to be a "spy-thriller" in a new district, with Idris Elba's Reed Solomon in tow. Previously, I expressed my desire to see the upcoming DLC fill the LA Noire-shaped hole in my life, but not long after I had a revelation: why wait, when I can turn V into a hardboiled detective of my own making in Cyberpunk 2077 already?
After waxing lyrical about the fact that I like to think of myself as a detective in CD Projekt Red's neon tinted open-world, I started to wonder why I didn't just go all in on this idea and do it for real. With so many gigs and side jobs that set the scene for me to role-play as a no nonsense private investigator, I set out to turn Cyberpunk 2077 into the detective game I've been pining for since I put on Cole's brogues in Rockstar's crime thriller.
