Forum - View topic

NEWS: Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Gets New 10-Episode Anime Series on Netflix

Kai Ikarashi (who was a storyboard artist, animation director, animator, and prop designer for the first series) is directing the new series as his directorial debut

Makes sense considering they're still doing patches for the game (probably because Edgerunners managed to salvage its reputation)

EmeraldSaucer wrote:

Makes sense considering they're still doing patches for the game (probably because Edgerunners managed to salvage its reputation)

It don't know if Edgerunners managed to salvage 2077's reputation, while I never played the game myself, I remember when it came out that it sold millions of copies, but the Xbox One and PS4 versions were practically unplayable, but I never knew if they managed to fix those versions, kind of what happened with No Man's Sky. I do remember that after Edgerunners came out, they added some content based on the anime to 2077. But yeah, 2077 is still popular and it still receives new content, even the Nintendo Switch 2 port is one of the few third-party games that managed to sell well.

I do know, and it did. The conversation around the game prior to Edgerunners was about how buggy and incomplete the game was (even ignoring the versions of the game that had to be refunded), with the developers even talking extensively about how they begged for more time because the game wasn't going to be done when executives wanted. And we're not talking about them wanting a couple months for polish, they said they needed a couple years to actually get the game feature complete. But then Edgerunners came out and convinced people that maybe the game was okay

The original was fine but not my favorite Trigger work but I’m not sure we really need more. It was a self-contained story and everything felt resolved. This feels like they’re only making more anime because it helped save the game.