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Every ending Takemura has made me happy that I abandoned him. I didn't think to go back to save him. I felt terrible about it later. But after seeing how every remotely happy ending you could have ended him bitter, alone, and hated, I think him dying in that ratty hotel room is the best ending he can have.

I think the way the Valentinos are portrayed is how eventually Mexican culture could end. For example, the Cult of the Santa Muerte is not exclusive to Cartels (Just how Cartels are not necessarily connected to the Valentinos per sé, in the Streetkid Lifepath, there's an angle being played, Kirk pressures Pepe to pay what he's owed by suggesting he's in bed with the Cartels, Jackie eventually scoffs at that idea because he knows Cartel people wouldn't associate with people like Kirk, guy has a loose mouth and would bring them unnecessary heat), and despite how Valentinos operate (In many way resembling cartels by pushing drugs, girls, and other services, not to mention the fashion) they are still treated as a gang, a very big gang of course, but still a gang, whereas Cartels are more of an International thing that would definitely get the attention of the NCPD, Militech, and maybe even Arasaka. Not saying that a cartel wouldn't operate in Night City, but they would be more discrete if they do so, and Valentinos are not discrete at all (Like modern day cartels). Catholicism and Christianity in Latinamerica is an interesting topic, because it's its own kind of Christianity, there's a lot of prehispanic customs that were adapted into Catholicism so it would be more readily accepted. In Mexico for example, during religious holidays you can still see pagan rituals and dances as part of the celebrations, as such, oftentimes Priests also behave differently. It's not unusual to see Priests more than just members of the Clergy, they are community leaders, they get deeply involved with their flock, and it's not rare to see them get invited to have breakfast or lunch to someone's home while they deal with more private matters. Sebastian Ibarra in that way, resembles a lot of these priests. He could just be a Fixer who happens to operate in Heywood and Vista del Rey, and who happens to have been a Valentino and left it at that. Instead, he does treat the Valentinos like his own people (Even if some of his gigs are against Valentinos), checking in different gig-related computers or notes around the gig areas you can oftentimes read communications between him and several people where either people reach out to him for guidance, or he tries to guide and advise them. He's a stern father who loves his children but won't hesitate to become strict and punish unruly children if there's a need for discipline. A relationship like the one he has with Valentinos and Heywood and Vista would benefit a Fixer enormously, Padre becoming a Fixer was a logical move. There's also an interesting way Religion is portrayed in 2077, Padre is kind of a dying breed. If you check the Serenity Bible Church in Pacifica, you can confess your sins and receive penitence for Eddies. A lot of people who claim to feel remorse for their actions would rather just get penitence this way, and then claim they are a better person now, and get back to it. Joshua Stephenson sustains correspondence with Zuleikha, seeks her mother's forgiveness for what he did, and he ultimately fails and a very morally complex quest, Sinnerman, get deeper. Until its culmination, there are no Priests involved. Depending on your perspective, in Mexican culture, Priests are seen as people who know the best interpretation of the teachings from the bible and advise people the best they can based on these teachings. But in the hypersexualised, hypermaterialistic society of 2077, there's little to no room for morality, get in, pay, get out, alleluia. As for his downfall, I really think it was a matter of time. As you mentioned before, at the very beginning of the Streetkid Lifepath, Sam Carter draws a gun on him and V's reaction is an astonished one. V had been gone a couple of years from Night City, to them, seeing someone, anyone draw a gun on him was unthinkable. This should have been a very big red flag: 6th Street no longer feared him. In Phantom Liberty (If we side with Reed) we learn why: Militech is in bed with 6th Street, they are providing the gang with everything and they are taking advantage of their anticorporate sentiment to push the corpo agenda. They are clearly looking to expand, and both Padre and Valentinos are in the way. I can see Militech pushing their relationship to the next level by supplying them with more weapons, more tech, and maybe even more people. I think that, no matter how you look at it, Padre's downfall was just a matter of time. There's no big corporation backing Valentinos (One could argue that maybe Arasaka is, when we do the Tight On A Leash gig to deal with José Luis, but it's more like Arasaka conducted a transaction with the gang for a false flag attack, and is demanding that José keeps his end of the bargain), there's no steady flow of high-end weaponry and tech, and more importantly, 6th Street has a bunch of veterans and they are constantly becoming more militaristic in their approach. I really love the video, and the way you interpret the lore, and I apologize for the wall of text, I thought I'd chime in a bit!

Dex is one of my favorite characters. Love the analysis, have a like and sub.

Rest video , Shame you didn’t do these videos 4 years ago when lore was booming

From Yorinobu's perspective, V is collateral damage in his crusade against Arasaka. But from V's perspective, Yorinobu killed Jackie and tried to have V killed.

Have you made a video about the nomad fixer

While I do feel the Hermit is supposed to be Alt, by the place where you find the mural, I always felt the card was also pointing towards being Jackie. From Misty's reading: "in solitude, he discovers the truth about himself and the world, and from this he draws strength" and "could be you... or someone who shows you kindness". That's pretty much 1:1 to Jackie moving out to his garage to have his own space, and taking V into his home at the beginning of the game

Hahaha. Was he daddy? Lmao Dude, hilarious. Love your humor. Great video man.

Man, what I would give to see Wakako and el Padre talk and interact. Both imo are probably the oldest and most connected fixers, with dark pasts.

Something about her is so appealing. Like dam i wouldn't mind being a future dead husband of her. She's fine. Anyways, she always struck me as someone dangerous and yes definitely a black widow but against evil business men. She may have some corruption or selfish, but may still have some morals. These people she takes out, usually are bad but yeah no such thing as good fixers. Anyways great video boss.

Mmm... Marmalade 🤤

19:12 ao3 time

If Jackie were a little bit selfish at the end, he could have been the one waking up from the dead instead of V. Misty told him to avoid red, and the man wore red around his neck.

weird question but are you mormon

What I find very interesting is, that as nomad V, after Evelyn ends herself, you can pick a dialog option in wich V says something like "Welcome to Night City, where your adress tells everything about you." and Judy answeres "We should have never come here in the first place." Her answer feels a bit of. Who is we? Maybe she and her grandparents, but she says it so personal at you. Was Judy originally planed as a nomad, who was supposed to come with you to NC in the intro? The scraping or cutting of Rivers story gave place for her as she is now in the finished game, but it is quite sad to see the lost potential on Rivers part to the story as a whole.

11:00 i kinda threatened her this playthrough when i was with goro and the moment she said was that a threat i was like NONONONO NO NO NONONONO

From the minute Wako mentioned she had five husbands, and they all died, I was like, she’s a black widow! And then once it’s revealed she turned Evelyn over to the Scavs, I was disgusted by her. Which is a shame because I really liked her character before learning this. However, when you were talking about how she commissioned V to kill off Claws who have gotten themselves into bad situations, one could argue Evie got herself into the mess she was in, and Wako didn’t discriminate just because Evie is a woman and not affiliated with a gang. But still, the ruthlessness is unsettling to say the least.

I believe it , one thing im liking is how the devs have added some much more closure to a lot of the quests compared to how the game was when it 1st came out. More dialog options and outcomes like that Sandra Dorsett chick for instance, after you save her in the beginning of the game theirs a quest later on where you talk to her again and even another quest where shes an option to call to help you with a quest. I really wish they would let us get to the bottom of who it is messing with /trying to control the Peralezs lol

Padre betraying Gustavo I think is his attempt at de-escalating the gang war. If Gustavo is the war leader of the Tinos, his death would be a valuable bargaining chip when negotiating with 6th Street. Of course the Tinos would want revenge for Gustavo, so Padre might have asked Frakes for a 6th street lieutenant in return.

Sigh, thanks for reminding me that my dommy mommy will never ever get a chance to be fully fleshed out ever again after Phantom Liberty. Well, I guess it's time to go and look for long ass Romance Fanfiction about V and Meredith, if I would ever find one. Great video by the way. I wish it was longer. Cyberpunk 2077 Lore is super fascinating. ❤

It makes sense that the Valentinos would eventually get sick of him. He was the least insulated of any Fixer from backlash off the streets, and he did treat them pretty badly considering he relies on them for protection. When he said getting back at the Tinos wasn't part of the van theft gig I knew he stabbed them right in the back, and just to intimidate some hicks who probably wouldn't come back anyway.

She was such a waste for fem V relationship. Same goes for River and male V

Panam is the goat she was my favourite character when I finished my first play through

I hate that this guy has my first name.

7:25 For Mitchiko's sake, I hope it never actually becomes canon... Blegh

Neverwinter Nights 2 really got me hard and pulled me into the story. Same for DA Origins. Sadly..., that Bioware does not exist anymore. The original Bioware set several milestones for RPG´s. And along came F you, this is not your story, it´s mine - Failguard...

I really liked her character, sad to see her go so soon but I understand it was meant to showcase how dangerous the commission really was

After laying this game, whenever I hear the word "Militech" I expect to hear "gonks" next hehe!!

It was fun watching, and its very possible you have a point there. :)

I figure that maybe she’s hanging around Dex because he owes her. She wants to collect on what she’s owed so it makes sense to stay close

Hi, I come from a Greek Orthodox background and from my perspective I see that Padre definitely believes himself to be avenging those who had wrong done to them. If you ever read the Bible you’ll see many instances of God, who is considered as the epitome of goodness, to cast down horrible retribution on those who have done his people wrong. Flooding the earth, the plagues of Egypt, and what he did to Gomorrah being the best examples. Padre reads this and sees what he is doing as wrong but necessary in the end. There’s also points where you say instead of being properly faithful that he is instead scared of god but that’s not something that’s separate from proper belief. “‘Twas grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears relieved” -Amazing Grace. Fear comes with repentance but soon after comes penance and the light. He knows w he how he does things is bad and he knows he profits from it, but he still gets satisfaction from the fact that he believes he is doing good in the end. Some other comments covered the more physical aspects of Padre’s time in cyberpunk but yeah.

Please I NEED a deep dive on El Capitan!

Padre weakness is shown from the internal issues in the Valentinos, as others stated. As several of his missions are getting rid of his own, be it they were getting rid of his contacts or courting an enemy's as a lover. Mind Wakako is similar as we do missions where she has us get rid of Tiger Claws even though she is very connected with them. He has power and weaknesses the other fixers connected to gangs don't have. Be it he is more out publicly when others stay in more protected places. Padre needed to get rid of that 6th street punk who threatened him, for example, as others stated or it be worse later on for him. Mind as others also stated the fact it even happens shows issues in his power base to it happening at all. The DLC ending where we find out Padre is gone between the 2 year coma isn't surprising. As there was evidence his time was almost up, be it from new upcoming Valentinos internally or 6th Street, which was going through massive changes as well. I was more sad about hearing possibly Mama Welles and Pepe might be dead or at best left night city and aren't reachable given the shop is closed. In two years, a lot changed to the point that some nobody punks, who knows some things, can just openly attack a weak V who has been away. Some of the changes feel a bit too radical for just two years. Given V from the Heywood path did leave before for x years before coming back. Padre is axed after said 2 years, and even Viktor giving in after what has happened, I can see. The random punks, though, going for V right where it happened, and conversation, though, regardless of choices, was pretty forced, though, in my view. Given that the punk had knowledge on things he had to know, Viktor used to be non corporate owned. Given this, nobody knows Padre, the shop situation, etc, depending on life path dialogue.

Sixth street😂....that never gets old..classic. Curious,would you ever consider playing Cyberpunk in a live stream?🔥

Not technically on topic but definitely adjacent. Isn't it odd that Christianity co opted many concepts from other faith traditions. What ever a Man soweth is very much like and it harm none do what thou will or the concept of karma. I personally keep a small santa muerte shrine on my dresser....i need to change out her libations come to think of it

In Catholicism it's not as easy to become priest as in protestantism. Even though i am orthodox and don't know roman schism as well, i don't think Padre is catholic at all. Maybe Anglican lol

All fixers would kill somebody that threatens them , that argument doesn't make sense.

I love how cd project red spent more time thinking about shit then doing shit and that ended up with a butchered rushed and bugged game on release and yet people still think witcher 4 or the next cyberpunk will be any different? Like Lool cd project red is now a "launch it broken and just fix it a year or two down the line" company not the guys who put out witcher 3

I wish we got more Militech because Militech is unironically my favourite Corp, another strong contender is Night Corp bc of Operation Carpe Nocturne, but Militech just seems to be this strong powerful presence preparing for something big, and seems to be the one where Merc’s and Solo’s can work with from time to time, like V and Meredith and obvs Morgan Blackhand and Militech as a whole. I wish we got more

i’ll be honest i had no idea that the “Excelsior” package was a metaphor, I heard it and thought it was a cool and cute little Stan Lee reference since his “catchphrase” was Excelsior. or maybe that’s because I grew up a Marvel kid

I actually felt the same but since it as my first play through, I thought the game bugged me out of the bonding quests. Like, as is? The end of the Peter Pan quest could've worked as is, but between that and the romance quest, we could have used more ground.

im glad her story got cut.

I was iffy about Dex the moment Royce and the Maelstrom boys laugh at you for working for Dex. Before that I thought Dex was cool, V’s big break, but when the fucking Maelstrom gang burst out laughing at the mention of his name I was like “tf? is he this bad?”

Wait, Judy a Evelyn weren't dating?

Of all the fixers, Wakako was the one that i had the biggest change of heart about. At the start of the game, she was a badass gangsta Granma doling out gigs and eddies. Obviously lethal and not to be messed with, but holding the special place where you keep your favorite grannie. Then Evie. God, that one story line. Following the fate of Evie. tracing what happened to her. Tracking from one low life scum bag to another as they passed her around like a piece of meat. Doling out vengeance as I went. Until I found out how the scavs ended up with Evie. Just biz. A client came to her. He needed help. She helped him. Just biz. Grow up, V. You have bigger concerns, V. We make good eddies, V. The rage was palpable. As i finally understood what had happened I didn't care that i had a dead rocker boy in my head, i didn't care that i was living on borrowed time, kept alive by the thing that was killing me. All i wanted to do was show Wakako that there were consequences for everything and she couldn't hide behind "just Biz" But, alas, I could not. I still feel the rage when i hear those words. Just biz.

I never liked him lol

Your segway into your book made me want to check it out. Well played.

I don’t know choom. I feel like for this to work you have to ignore so much about Padre it isn’t worth it. For example, in the run in with Sam, V says “he pulled a gun on you!” And Padre answered “ and he will pay for that”. THATS why we find Sam zeroed later in the story. Padre sits in the basketball court in the middle of the hood because it literally is a power move and he walks the path of a Valentino Jesus. Jesus was never holed up in a mansion, he was with the people. You also have to ignore the fact that he may have been seen as more touchable because of this. You had the counter argument for almost everything in the story so I have to agree this is well thought out, I think it comes down to perspective. You call what he was doing sloppy, from a gangers perspective, these are all messages for everyone to see.

Funny enough Oleg Dex's bodyguard is an FIA agent. He was so incompetent that his number 2 was not even on his side.

T Bug was a threat to Madam Brigitte. I believe that Madam Brigitte was willing to sacrifice T Bug. Brigitte, knew Evelyn Parker was a threat to the Voodoo boys plans. Madame Brigitte also knew that Dex de Shawn was a man punching above his intellectual weight. But T Bug wasn’t and she was a threat on all fronts. Extracting the biochip successfully would have strengthened T bugs hand. I believe T bug was betrayed to Arosaka by Madam Brigitte. During the time between Yorinobu’s patricide, and the recall of the bodyguards, in the confusion T Bug was betrayed by Brigitte, and fried. The others Jackie and V were left to deal with the aftermath which resulted in the fatal shot to Jackie. After this the Voodoo boys tracked down Evelyn to remove her as a witness and conspiritor as we find out in Clouds. I always betray the Voodoo boys.