This was the most disturbing mission for me until the Phantom Liberty DLC dropped and one of the options turned Cyberpunk 2077 into a horror survival game.
The most interesting element to this mission is you are not hunting Harris. He has already been caught and is lying in a coma with a bullet in his brain. You're frantically working backwards trying to find his missing victims. It's positively cinematic.
This mission was so effed up I had to stop playing and reflect after finishing it, especially because I understood several aspects of it; the childhood trauma part, using cartoons to cope and people taking advantage of you while you're at your most vulnerable. This was the most real mission in this game, for me.
Fun fact: During the Brain dance (the second part) you can notice a silhouette of a female that dissapears once our killer goes through the curtain. Then during the third part of the brain dance once you go outside with the camera before the gate is closed by harris and change the layer to Thermal you need to look at the silos. You can notice there that someone else is watching Tony... again a female character. I like to think it was his mother watching him
@@neonoir__ The wiki lists it as a bug but the fact that it disappears instantly when he opens the curtain makes me feel like it's definitely intentional
@@thefatherinthecave943 I always read it as it was AI’s beyond the blackwall. Since Johnny said that I figured that was the hint the devs were giving us
I feel like CDPR cut a lot of content with River, whole story with him feels uncompleted, we quickly become best friends just through one mission, probably we supposed to do more other detective missions before this one with kidnapped kid.
8:34 that's the death stranding reference I believe, also I'm loving seeing your videos back on my feed especially around cyberpunk one of my favourite games
Reading the chat logs in this mission deadass made me uncomfortable and sick to my stomach, what's worse was how realistic he texted in the messages, trying to be all 'cute' and 'friendly' Bleh 🤢
Me: Goofs around Pacifica. Judy: Calls - Evelyn self deleted. Deal with that. Me: OK.....that was rough.....i need to do something stupid now. Also me: Hey that cop guy called me for help 1000 years ago. Let's go battle some corruption...cause that's what i assumed the quest will be about. Me after finishing this quest: OK bed time it is.............
@@emilleanthonette your definitely not cut out for our worlds future because its going to be almost exactly the same to the game were our planets headed
I agree this mission is one of the darkest, but the mission that wrecked me was when you hunt down Evelyn Parker after Konpeki Plaza. Going through all the despicable dudes who handed her off one after another to even worse people until she arrive at the Death's Head guys who make snuff BDs. After the mission Judy revealed they used her Doll Chip in her brain in order to create dozens maybe even hundreds of snuff BDs. Imagine being in a near catatonic state (Because she was fried by Voodoo Boy Hackers) and being forced to experience endless amounts of torture, abuse, and even death over and over and over. It's heart breaking, I freely admit I was fan boying a little for Evelyn the first time I played the game, and to have her go through that then take her own life was completely fucked up. Especially when you realize that besides Judy, absolutely nobody cared what happened to her. Night City used her up and threw her away like a bag of meat. It still makes me sad just thinking about it. Since my first playthrough I make sure to put a bullet in everyone involved in what happened to her, Woodman, Fingers, and everyone in that Wraith hideout. It will never help or save Evelyn but at least she gets some form of justice even if its a crude one.
This is the kind of writing that makes CDPR so different from other game devs. The Bloody Baron story arc in The Witcher 3 was excellent, too, and my real first experience with the kind of storytelling CDPR is capable of. They aren't afraid to "go there", to tell mature, gut-wrenching stories in their games.
I find that one even worse since apparently it’s widely practiced in the setting and also is even closer to real life than I’d like. Kid’s wanting to get out of poverty, so they break down their bodies to try and make it big, if they get injured or just aren’t good enough they fade back into the crowd with now a whole host of problems with how hard they were pushing themselves.
@@ERBanmech the American education system where athletics are the focus not education that mission is just the natural progression of what we currently do
Same, almost cried from the encounter with Zuleka's mom, and I felt just overall down after crucifying the serial killer. It was a genuine emotional roller coaster, and it also just makes you question morality.
@@vendetta3941 I went through with the whole thing and I couldnt help but sympathize with the guy. I understood he did bad things and wanted to atone for his misdeeds. And I wanted to help him with it no matter what. I was so torn between doing it to help him and not do it to stick it to the dumb media wh*** (The only time you will see me use that word and its in context to them being in it only for the money, not because they are female). Its such a messed up storyline overall. Another one that personally got to me was the XBD pushers. Father and Son. To this day I cannot kill either of them. Not only cause I understand that pushing XBDs is literally just a job at that stage even if its sick but there are 2 other reasons. If I were to kill them Id have to kill David from the Anime just as much. And David was into the same sick stuff they were producing and pushing. Not only that, he helped push the same stuff. And David wasnt a bad kid. But the second reason is the genuine level of love that was poured into the acting. Killing the son and hearing the Father cry out in pain. Killing the Father and hearing the Son in Panic and confusion. Not knowing what he is supposed to do now. His father gone, him probably about to die. No one there to protect him? Nah. I killed many people in the game. From cops to maxtac to gang members to even for the hell of it random passersby because I needed energy for my Sandevistan as I was enjoying the Maxtac fights. But I cannot for the life of me pull the trigger on either of them. Confrontation in this game is like Pandoras Box. Once you open it, it changes you.
@@GikamesShadowDavid was pushing regular XBD’s, the father and son duo had multiple snuff movies to their name. Many of them involving kids, which is why the father has a unique reaction if you kill the son first.
@@abisnail4888 I personally dont see the difference, especially when David was also very much enjoying seeing the carnage of it. We saw the XBD he watched. Cyberpsycho taking on Cops and Maxtac. He loved seeing the Psycho killing people. As for the XBDs they pushed, werent they pushing mainly and primarily that of killings? Which I guess can be seen as Snuff yea. Unless I missed something. Like yea its still sick but if it didnt involve sexual stuff I really dont see the difference in it all.
Ngl especially the cow masks disturbed me so mich i will mever play throught this mission again, sorry to river bit i hated every second those masks where visible
@@tzimiscelord8483the children wearing the mask are actually different every time you reset the BD, like by reloading the save or just restarting the BD itself.
@@tzimiscelord8483the first time i noticed the kids wearing the masks i actually had to reset a couple times to make sure i hadn’t just forgot who was wearing it.
The dead men we find with Ward are dead because Anthony didn't take care of them for days. Since his arrest he couldn't control what and how many chemicals were pumped into them, so they died either from hunger, thirst or overdose. At least that is how I see it. If he cared for them, he wouldn't let them just die there on a table.
I’ve had a little theory since launch that Anthony Harris killed his father. In that first dream BD we watch where Harris is arguing with his teacher, towards the very end of it, he says something like, “He was sick- weak! I just wanted to help him!” It could just be his dialogue looping back to the beginning when he was talking about Liam’s turtle, which wouldn’t be odd for a dream, but it gave me pause that he says it right after he yells at the teacher for talking about his dad killing himself. I think it adds an extra messed up layer that his father was his first kill.
I think the reason some of the boys are dead on the table by the time V and River get there is because the killer hadn't been there in almost a week by that point. Keep in mind, River starts this quest because the guy had already been apprehended a few days earlier. We were just trying to find where he hid his victims.
two corrections 1. the bds were dreams induced to mirror memories. So he might not have hallucinated the cow irl 2. He was caught a few days before you visit his farm. so the kids didn't die that way on purpose. There's would've died the way started by the in-game article if he wasn't caught... it could've been saved if the ncpd caught up with him by themselves
Also among the shards in his house are one to do with manipulation and one about how to talk to your rebellious teen. This guy was studying an d planning this the whole way through.
Thanks for the great video. To add to the disturbing information - Harris attended a school in Laguna Bend where a mass shooting took place. The game doesn't say whether he witnessed it (he went to school "in the mid-40s", the shooting took place in 2044), but he probably did. I'm waiting for your thoughts on the Sinnerman quest. There are many poignant quests in the game, like Evelyn Parker's story (after her disappearance), Talent Academy (from the DLC), Happy Together, Project Nightingale (Guinea Pigs quest).
It really is one of the most disturbing missions out there, depending on your choices you can even go out of your way to mess up the ending and let River die or come to late to save his nephew. Regardless, fantastic video and analysis Reed!
7:40 is that a BB unit? Of all places they could make a Death Stranding reference, they choose the most effed up mission to do it, maybe that's some meta context for how BBs are made in Death Stranding, kind of makes that game more effed up now but I may be looking too deep into it. Still this mission is existential as hell, Cyberpunk is such an interesting world, I remember when I read the original rulebook for Cyberpunk 2020, which came out in the 80's, I swear the way it describes how everyone in Night City thinks "they're special" felt like a literal prophecy of our modern day manifesting before my very eyes, I don't know how Mike Pondsmith is so insightful, the man is a national treasure.
This was one of those missions that made the whole game a lot more real. I put the controller down, playing that third tape. A stand out mission that tackles the whole subject very carefully. I think the only thing that didnt really work for me was the baby in the liquid. I'm pretty sure it's a death stranding reference which could have worked somewhere else. I haven't played that game and unless those stories overlap somehow, I don't think this was an appropriate time for member berries
this, sinner man, and the gig about the father & son duo editing xbds killed me. but this takes the cake as the most fucked up. im autistic, and those kids could stand up for themselves, but nobody listened, as usual. from the grooming, to the human experiments, to the child abuse, to the treating humans like cattle is.. sad. the cycle of abuse just keeps going, and i honestly visit river and his family sometimes bc i feel awful for the guy. i felt sick doing this mission, but imagine what randys family felt. i can also absolutely see my v visiting randy in the hospital, if river and his family allow it, to provide comfort and finally give randy that safe person he believed anthony was.
the cartoon videos are simply disturbing bruh. Like do you ever watch some kind of disney satanic cartoons or cute but graphic cartoons like Happy Tree Friends?
It's as much the context we're seeing the cartoon under. If you've ever watched 20s and 30s cartoon (which this one mimics), they had comparable scenes, but they weren't explicitly linked to horror like this one was.
I found this, disasterpiece and Sinnerman to be the most memorable missions for me, with disasterpiece being the most messed up IMO. There's actually another similar to disasterpiece about a Tyger Claw guy who was basically running a red room where he would torture and mutilate his victims for views. But disasterpiece was especially chilling for me seeing a character you had interacted with before who was so full of life being reduced to a vegetative state because of all the trauma and abuse she was subjected to. It was really heart wrenching, something about actually seeing a familiar face one could even consider a companion be reduced to such a state really brings it home how messed up night city is, with the really sad thing being that it really isn't such a huge stretch terrible things that some people have to go through in reality.
I surprisingly did better with this than the “talent academy” mission for phantom liberty. At least this guy is a vile fringe circumstance rather than the talent academy which is done on a world level and is surprisingly something I could easily see done IRL.
Ye fun fact about the scribbles on the walls, it's references to the voodoo boys and demons. The monsters are specifically the way they depict demons even.
The best horror is when you least suspect it - from dunwich building in Fallout 3 to Santa Monica hotel in Vampire: Bloodlines and finally here, the most memorable moments of fear is when you get hit with it, not intentionally go into it like an average horror game.
This mission, the snuff film one and sinnerman all just broke my brain a wee bit (not to mention countless others like the Cyberpsycho voodoo event was serious Chaos God stuff.. like a Bret E.E. novel I will never forget what I saw/read. Cyberpunk and warhammer are some of the 2 most mind F's of lore
I love this whole quest because it puts into perspective how fucked up people (both in universe, and irl) can be. And, I get a cool baton named after my fav Disney character
Not to mention that the previous quest also starts the quest Dream On. Which is about the Perarelz couple having their memories edited and realities warped for sinister purposes. Very much reminiscent of the Manchurian Candidate.
After the Joshua Stephenson crucifixion gig, Nothing surprised me in Cyberpunk 2077 anymore. Both missions were really messed up but still the game was awesome.
Bro what the F was this mission. I remember being part way through the school BD and just thinking what the f am I playing, when did this turn into a horror game...
This mission reminded me of a school trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and it was probably one of inspirations for this mission. In short Auschwitz-Birkenau was literal hell, and you need to see it with your own eyes to understand.
So my experience was was worse.. since i kinda was trying to finish ncpd scanners and i got bored and decided to do one last mission before bed..... it was like 2 am and got sent down that gut wrenching story and in the dead of night it made it felt so much more wrong. Late at night... dark night... and eerily quiet
It has been almost two years since i last played this mission, since then, that damm music never left my head, not a single week has passed without it playing in my mind, it stuck more than any movie, i think playing makes it more real...
This mission genuinely made me sick and feel absolutely uneasy at even turn of this mission. And it sadly and horribly reminded me of a something that happened in the city a while ago and this mission just sent me chills down my spine.
The fetus baby in the jar is bb unit a reference to death stranding it helps people see the weird ghost monsters and you walk around with it on your chest and take care of it
The baby is death strandling easter egg. Just like Ciri easter egg, don't lean too much into it. The most chilling mission is mind reading and a back to history from 2004 involving a child.
Remember that the brain dance isn't necessarily his memories. But rather his dreams recorded. They're not what happened 100%, but how his subconscious chooses to remember it. The artificial womb is a Death Stranding easter egg.
I watched the tv shows true blood IT and game of thrones when i was younger.Therefore i’m pretty much forever immune to scary scenes in movies tv shows or games
I've been gaming for a long time but this mission and Both Sides Now are the only missions that I've ever played that made me want to take a break and just lie down for a bit after playing them. They legitimately fucked me up. I think the scenario that you'll get if you decide to betray Songbird in the expansion would have probably had the same effect on me, but in my first playthrough of the expansion, I chose to side with her, and that became my head canon.
This mission made me say “whoa!”, & nothing more. As disturbing as it was, I wasn’t stopped dead in my tracks. And that’s because I read stories even darker stories than Cyberpunk 2077.
Yeah... this mission felt so real because it was very close to reality. If you've seen some real cases before in RL and you are also a parent it will get you even more. And because of all that... it is one of the best missions for me in the game or I've ever played in 40 years of gaming. When a game forces you to rethink and reflect on all of this it has done it's job very well. And if you played this mission and not even felt something wrong about it, you should consider a deep and long check at your doc. 😵💫 7:52 is a hint of death stranding...
This mission was so messed up! Did you have the same reaction or did a different mission get to you in cyberpunk 2077?
This was the most disturbing mission for me until the Phantom Liberty DLC dropped and one of the options turned Cyberpunk 2077 into a horror survival game.
sinnerman is also pretty fucked up
The crucifixion mission is pretty messed.
theres an even worse one in Fallout london. one thatt will chill you to the bone
@@chaost4544what exact mission do you mean? I can only think about that damn robot in that underground bunker that scared the shit out of me
The most interesting element to this mission is you are not hunting Harris. He has already been caught and is lying in a coma with a bullet in his brain. You're frantically working backwards trying to find his missing victims. It's positively cinematic.
Yes it was cinematic. It was done in the 2000 movie "The Cell" with Jennifer Lopez.
The baby is just a death stranding Easter egg lol. That's the BB unit.
i was about to say this exactly
That's a relief. I was about to star worrying that I didn't look into any deeper meaning.
Easter egg or not, it's pretty disturbing.
@@juanpabloflores8179not that disturbing if youve played Death stranding
@@juanpabloflores8179 BB is cute if you played death stranding
try that masterpiece
This mission was so effed up I had to stop playing and reflect after finishing it, especially because I understood several aspects of it; the childhood trauma part, using cartoons to cope and people taking advantage of you while you're at your most vulnerable. This was the most real mission in this game, for me.
But that deep
It ain't that deep bruh
@@Jodio-Joestaras if you'd ever understand obv 😒
@@SylvieAurora 🤓
how do I find this mission? do I just progress the story? I still haven't met up with Judy after the arasaka incident 😅
Fun fact:
During the Brain dance (the second part) you can notice a silhouette of a female that dissapears once our killer goes through the curtain.
Then during the third part of the brain dance once you go outside with the camera before the gate is closed by harris and change the layer to Thermal you need to look at the silos. You can notice there that someone else is watching Tony... again a female character.
I like to think it was his mother watching him
i thought that was a bug from an npc spawning next to the curtain 💀
I like to think that was his mother watching over him
Yeah, I almost forgot this one, really creepy. I think is his mother too.
Do we have evidence that brain dances be influenced by mental delusion, so an extra person might be evidence of mental illness?
@@neonoir__ The wiki lists it as a bug but the fact that it disappears instantly when he opens the curtain makes me feel like it's definitely intentional
For me it was the mission where you find out the Peralez’s are having their memories erased and replaced by forces beyond your understanding
The “forces beyond your understanding” corporations. It’s corporations. Its so so so obvious its a company doing.
@@thefatherinthecave943I'm just saying, my end game V could totally destroy all the corpos lol
@@thefatherinthecave943nah bro it rogue ai it bigger than matrix for sure
Oh, agreed! River’s quest is disturbing but the Peralez’s quest was down right chilling. Literally made my spine tingle when I finished it.
@@thefatherinthecave943 I always read it as it was AI’s beyond the blackwall. Since Johnny said that I figured that was the hint the devs were giving us
I feel like CDPR cut a lot of content with River, whole story with him feels uncompleted, we quickly become best friends just through one mission, probably we supposed to do more other detective missions before this one with kidnapped kid.
Yeah it felt really fast lol
no totally, i wish there was more w river because he has the potential to be really interesting
8:34 that's the death stranding reference I believe, also I'm loving seeing your videos back on my feed especially around cyberpunk one of my favourite games
Yes, there's a creator of the game in Konpeki Plaza during that mission around the bar.
@@RudolfKlusal Not A Creator! That's Hideo Kojima Himself
@@Meme_spice Yes, I know 🙂
Reading the chat logs in this mission deadass made me uncomfortable and sick to my stomach, what's worse was how realistic he texted in the messages, trying to be all 'cute' and 'friendly'
Bleh 🤢
Me: Goofs around Pacifica.
Judy: Calls - Evelyn self deleted. Deal with that.
Me: OK.....that was rough.....i need to do something stupid now.
Also me: Hey that cop guy called me for help 1000 years ago. Let's go battle some corruption...cause that's what i assumed the quest will be about.
Me after finishing this quest: OK bed time it is.............
The sad bit about this mission is that it's not even as dark as Cyberpunk gets. It's just as dark as Cyberpunk 2077 *gets.*
Evelyn’s story is a pretty bad one, same as Joshua mission.
The one with the father and son XBD editors is horribly fucked too. God, that mission...
@@player_566-1 literally had to take a few days break after completing evelyn's questline. it's so messed up, but unfortunately a reality for some.
@@emilleanthonette damn youre that weak? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@emilleanthonette your definitely not cut out for our worlds future because its going to be almost exactly the same to the game were our planets headed
That Watson gig with the father & son XBD editors still haunts me to this day
I agree this mission is one of the darkest, but the mission that wrecked me was when you hunt down Evelyn Parker after Konpeki Plaza. Going through all the despicable dudes who handed her off one after another to even worse people until she arrive at the Death's Head guys who make snuff BDs. After the mission Judy revealed they used her Doll Chip in her brain in order to create dozens maybe even hundreds of snuff BDs. Imagine being in a near catatonic state (Because she was fried by Voodoo Boy Hackers) and being forced to experience endless amounts of torture, abuse, and even death over and over and over. It's heart breaking, I freely admit I was fan boying a little for Evelyn the first time I played the game, and to have her go through that then take her own life was completely fucked up. Especially when you realize that besides Judy, absolutely nobody cared what happened to her. Night City used her up and threw her away like a bag of meat. It still makes me sad just thinking about it. Since my first playthrough I make sure to put a bullet in everyone involved in what happened to her, Woodman, Fingers, and everyone in that Wraith hideout. It will never help or save Evelyn but at least she gets some form of justice even if its a crude one.
This is the kind of writing that makes CDPR so different from other game devs. The Bloody Baron story arc in The Witcher 3 was excellent, too, and my real first experience with the kind of storytelling CDPR is capable of. They aren't afraid to "go there", to tell mature, gut-wrenching stories in their games.
Sports Academy is another really messed up mission involving kids.
I find that one even worse since apparently it’s widely practiced in the setting and also is even closer to real life than I’d like. Kid’s wanting to get out of poverty, so they break down their bodies to try and make it big, if they get injured or just aren’t good enough they fade back into the crowd with now a whole host of problems with how hard they were pushing themselves.
Is that from the DLC? I don't remember playing it in the main game.
@@juanpabloflores8179 yep it’s from the DLC.
@@ERBanmech the American education system where athletics are the focus not education that mission is just the natural progression of what we currently do
@@CaligulatheEmperor exactly why it chills me a bit more.
This mission and the Jesus mission physically hurt my gut
Same, almost cried from the encounter with Zuleka's mom, and I felt just overall down after crucifying the serial killer. It was a genuine emotional roller coaster, and it also just makes you question morality.
It was genuinely disturbing nailing bro like jesus christ
@@vendetta3941 I went through with the whole thing and I couldnt help but sympathize with the guy. I understood he did bad things and wanted to atone for his misdeeds. And I wanted to help him with it no matter what. I was so torn between doing it to help him and not do it to stick it to the dumb media wh*** (The only time you will see me use that word and its in context to them being in it only for the money, not because they are female). Its such a messed up storyline overall.
Another one that personally got to me was the XBD pushers. Father and Son. To this day I cannot kill either of them. Not only cause I understand that pushing XBDs is literally just a job at that stage even if its sick but there are 2 other reasons. If I were to kill them Id have to kill David from the Anime just as much. And David was into the same sick stuff they were producing and pushing. Not only that, he helped push the same stuff. And David wasnt a bad kid.
But the second reason is the genuine level of love that was poured into the acting. Killing the son and hearing the Father cry out in pain. Killing the Father and hearing the Son in Panic and confusion. Not knowing what he is supposed to do now. His father gone, him probably about to die. No one there to protect him? Nah. I killed many people in the game. From cops to maxtac to gang members to even for the hell of it random passersby because I needed energy for my Sandevistan as I was enjoying the Maxtac fights. But I cannot for the life of me pull the trigger on either of them. Confrontation in this game is like Pandoras Box. Once you open it, it changes you.
@@GikamesShadowDavid was pushing regular XBD’s, the father and son duo had multiple snuff movies to their name. Many of them involving kids, which is why the father has a unique reaction if you kill the son first.
@@abisnail4888 I personally dont see the difference, especially when David was also very much enjoying seeing the carnage of it. We saw the XBD he watched. Cyberpsycho taking on Cops and Maxtac. He loved seeing the Psycho killing people. As for the XBDs they pushed, werent they pushing mainly and primarily that of killings? Which I guess can be seen as Snuff yea. Unless I missed something. Like yea its still sick but if it didnt involve sexual stuff I really dont see the difference in it all.
Ngl especially the cow masks disturbed me so mich i will mever play throught this mission again, sorry to river bit i hated every second those masks where visible
100%! Those masks were so unsettling
@@Radaustin27 Did you notice the kid in the cafeteria wearing one in the periphery? 5:09
@@tzimiscelord8483the children wearing the mask are actually different every time you reset the BD, like by reloading the save or just restarting the BD itself.
@@thefatherinthecave943 So it's probably just one of the items on a set list of the clothing they can be randomly generated with, makes it more neat.
@@tzimiscelord8483the first time i noticed the kids wearing the masks i actually had to reset a couple times to make sure i hadn’t just forgot who was wearing it.
The dead men we find with Ward are dead because Anthony didn't take care of them for days. Since his arrest he couldn't control what and how many chemicals were pumped into them, so they died either from hunger, thirst or overdose. At least that is how I see it. If he cared for them, he wouldn't let them just die there on a table.
"I am the Meatman. My meat is delicious"
- Meatman (probably)
I wish you could throw the little door on someone's forehead and float inside to watch their memories through similarly to how braindances work.
I’ve had a little theory since launch that Anthony Harris killed his father.
In that first dream BD we watch where Harris is arguing with his teacher, towards the very end of it, he says something like, “He was sick- weak! I just wanted to help him!” It could just be his dialogue looping back to the beginning when he was talking about Liam’s turtle, which wouldn’t be odd for a dream, but it gave me pause that he says it right after he yells at the teacher for talking about his dad killing himself. I think it adds an extra messed up layer that his father was his first kill.
That's definitely how it read to me.
I think the reason some of the boys are dead on the table by the time V and River get there is because the killer hadn't been there in almost a week by that point. Keep in mind, River starts this quest because the guy had already been apprehended a few days earlier. We were just trying to find where he hid his victims.
two corrections
1. the bds were dreams induced to mirror memories. So he might not have hallucinated the cow irl
2. He was caught a few days before you visit his farm. so the kids didn't die that way on purpose. There's would've died the way started by the in-game article if he wasn't caught... it could've been saved if the ncpd caught up with him by themselves
Also among the shards in his house are one to do with manipulation and one about how to talk to your rebellious teen. This guy was studying an d planning this the whole way through.
Thanks for the great video. To add to the disturbing information - Harris attended a school in Laguna Bend where a mass shooting took place. The game doesn't say whether he witnessed it (he went to school "in the mid-40s", the shooting took place in 2044), but he probably did.
I'm waiting for your thoughts on the Sinnerman quest. There are many poignant quests in the game, like Evelyn Parker's story (after her disappearance), Talent Academy (from the DLC), Happy Together, Project Nightingale (Guinea Pigs quest).
Thank you for letting me know! That's horrible! but adds even more to this story.
It really is one of the most disturbing missions out there, depending on your choices you can even go out of your way to mess up the ending and let River die or come to late to save his nephew. Regardless, fantastic video and analysis Reed!
7:40 is that a BB unit? Of all places they could make a Death Stranding reference, they choose the most effed up mission to do it, maybe that's some meta context for how BBs are made in Death Stranding, kind of makes that game more effed up now but I may be looking too deep into it. Still this mission is existential as hell, Cyberpunk is such an interesting world, I remember when I read the original rulebook for Cyberpunk 2020, which came out in the 80's, I swear the way it describes how everyone in Night City thinks "they're special" felt like a literal prophecy of our modern day manifesting before my very eyes, I don't know how Mike Pondsmith is so insightful, the man is a national treasure.
I'll never forget how my V was scared and yet collected and brave to face this man and putting him down with a shotgun point blank range
This was one of those missions that made the whole game a lot more real. I put the controller down, playing that third tape. A stand out mission that tackles the whole subject very carefully. I think the only thing that didnt really work for me was the baby in the liquid. I'm pretty sure it's a death stranding reference which could have worked somewhere else. I haven't played that game and unless those stories overlap somehow, I don't think this was an appropriate time for member berries
this, sinner man, and the gig about the father & son duo editing xbds killed me. but this takes the cake as the most fucked up. im autistic, and those kids could stand up for themselves, but nobody listened, as usual. from the grooming, to the human experiments, to the child abuse, to the treating humans like cattle is.. sad. the cycle of abuse just keeps going, and i honestly visit river and his family sometimes bc i feel awful for the guy. i felt sick doing this mission, but imagine what randys family felt.
i can also absolutely see my v visiting randy in the hospital, if river and his family allow it, to provide comfort and finally give randy that safe person he believed anthony was.
the cartoon videos are simply disturbing bruh. Like do you ever watch some kind of disney satanic cartoons or cute but graphic cartoons like Happy Tree Friends?
It's as much the context we're seeing the cartoon under. If you've ever watched 20s and 30s cartoon (which this one mimics), they had comparable scenes, but they weren't explicitly linked to horror like this one was.
I found this, disasterpiece and Sinnerman to be the most memorable missions for me, with disasterpiece being the most messed up IMO. There's actually another similar to disasterpiece about a Tyger Claw guy who was basically running a red room where he would torture and mutilate his victims for views. But disasterpiece was especially chilling for me seeing a character you had interacted with before who was so full of life being reduced to a vegetative state because of all the trauma and abuse she was subjected to. It was really heart wrenching, something about actually seeing a familiar face one could even consider a companion be reduced to such a state really brings it home how messed up night city is, with the really sad thing being that it really isn't such a huge stretch terrible things that some people have to go through in reality.
7:40 that is a death stranding refrence.
The whole black market XBD world disturbs me deeply
I surprisingly did better with this than the “talent academy” mission for phantom liberty. At least this guy is a vile fringe circumstance rather than the talent academy which is done on a world level and is surprisingly something I could easily see done IRL.
That was so gross too! I couldn’t believe that mission either
This quest makes me so ill man. The farm, the grooming, the cartoons, everything makes me sick
The repeating song bothered my so much I almost had to mute my tv.
7:42 That's a Death Stranding easter egg. Hideo Kojima is also in the game as an NPC. Kojima loves CP2077.
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DONT ABBREIVATE CYBERPUNK!
HAAAAAAAANK!
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Ye fun fact about the scribbles on the walls, it's references to the voodoo boys and demons. The monsters are specifically the way they depict demons even.
I remember playing this and was thrown completely off guard lol
Same. That third tape was pure chills
this mission is how all of the other NCPD scanner missions should have been structured where we investigate them in steps just like the Hunt mission
The best horror is when you least suspect it - from dunwich building in Fallout 3 to Santa Monica hotel in Vampire: Bloodlines and finally here, the most memorable moments of fear is when you get hit with it, not intentionally go into it like an average horror game.
Loving all these cyberpunk videos u been making lately.. it’s probably my all time favorite game, so please sir, keep em coming
You mentioned it at the end...Sinnerman. I found that one deeply messed up, and so unpleasant that I've only followed it to the end once.
"And Harris is based on one of the most evil serial killers of all time"
I dunno man, I feel like a fictional serial killer is one of the least evil
This mission, the snuff film one and sinnerman all just broke my brain a wee bit (not to mention countless others like the Cyberpsycho voodoo event was serious Chaos God stuff.. like a Bret E.E. novel I will never forget what I saw/read. Cyberpunk and warhammer are some of the 2 most mind F's of lore
07:42 - Please note that this is an Easter egg.
There is no hidden meaning or significance to this.
this is something that would happen in reality, feeds into the fact that night city is dystopian
the incubation tank is a reference to death stranding
This quest made me sick to my stomach, but damn was it memorable
I love this whole quest because it puts into perspective how fucked up people (both in universe, and irl) can be. And, I get a cool baton named after my fav Disney character
Not to mention that the previous quest also starts the quest Dream On. Which is about the Perarelz couple having their memories edited and realities warped for sinister purposes. Very much reminiscent of the Manchurian Candidate.
As soon as i saw the thumbnail, memories came back of this mission
There is so much of this game I missed in my first play through
Its messed because it happens wayyyy more often than anyone would care to admit. the lacation, to way the dude talks...
After the Joshua Stephenson crucifixion gig, Nothing surprised me in Cyberpunk 2077 anymore. Both missions were really messed up but still the game was awesome.
The child in an artificial woumb is a nod(Easter egg) ti Death stranding.
The Artificial Womb is an Easter Egg referencing the Hideo Kajima game Death Stranding.
why are people just now talking about this mission
this mission gave me genuine fear. i had actual goosebumps i’ve never felt that way before it was terrifying
7:49 That’s a reference to Death Stranding.
That cartoon makes me scream internally
Bro what the F was this mission.
I remember being part way through the school BD and just thinking what the f am I playing, when did this turn into a horror game...
This mission reminded me of a school trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and it was probably one of inspirations for this mission. In short Auschwitz-Birkenau was literal hell, and you need to see it with your own eyes to understand.
So my experience was was worse.. since i kinda was trying to finish ncpd scanners and i got bored and decided to do one last mission before bed..... it was like 2 am and got sent down that gut wrenching story and in the dead of night it made it felt so much more wrong. Late at night... dark night... and eerily quiet
THE CARTOON AHHHH
just got done finishing this mission a few hours ago today, left me speechless, and maybe a bit... disgusted? idk.
7:53 that’s just a reference to death stranding.
It has been almost two years since i last played this mission, since then, that damm music never left my head, not a single week has passed without it playing in my mind, it stuck more than any movie, i think playing makes it more real...
FINALLY a video about this. This was right up a true crime fanatics alley!
This mission genuinely made me sick and feel absolutely uneasy at even turn of this mission. And it sadly and horribly reminded me of a something that happened in the city a while ago and this mission just sent me chills down my spine.
The fetus baby in the jar is bb unit a reference to death stranding it helps people see the weird ghost monsters and you walk around with it on your chest and take care of it
This whole mission feels like something from Dexter.
Damn soon as I seen that thumbnail of your video that creepy as music popped in my head😂😢
This is one of the best quests in the game. It had everything, it reminded me of Criminal Minds. It was so well done.
7:38 this is actually a reference to Death Stranding where they use those to detected Beached things
7:48 Wasn't it easter egg for Death Stranding?
Hi : also, you can totally fail the mission. Have it all, THEN fail to save the kiddo.
Tinkerbell is an electric cattle prod, not a branding iron
This one makes you think what it typically was..but oh it's worst it even seems real and freaks you out >;
The baby is death strandling easter egg. Just like Ciri easter egg, don't lean too much into it.
The most chilling mission is mind reading and a back to history from 2004 involving a child.
That part...what they did to the cows bugged me a lot.
Remember that the brain dance isn't necessarily his memories. But rather his dreams recorded. They're not what happened 100%, but how his subconscious chooses to remember it.
The artificial womb is a Death Stranding easter egg.
The mission was really creepy, but also one of the best side quests in the game.
The baby in an incubator is just an easter egg from Death Stranding
started watching thinking this would be just another rant / clickbait / like farming video but no, this was actually damn good
For me, the most messed up one was the Crucifiction mission. This one would definitely be a close second, though.
This mission/quest was wild the first time around
Meat man, take me by the hand
Lead me to the land that you understand.
I watched the tv shows true blood IT and game of thrones when i was younger.Therefore i’m pretty much forever immune to scary scenes in movies tv shows or games
I watched the tv shows true blood IT and game of thrones when i was younger.Therefore i’m pretty much forever immune to scary scenes in movies
This is why i love this game. A mission that's so boring and tedious to me has such an impact on so many others. Great game.
the artificial womb thing is a reference from Death Stranding
I've been gaming for a long time but this mission and Both Sides Now are the only missions that I've ever played that made me want to take a break and just lie down for a bit after playing them. They legitimately fucked me up.
I think the scenario that you'll get if you decide to betray Songbird in the expansion would have probably had the same effect on me, but in my first playthrough of the expansion, I chose to side with her, and that became my head canon.
i love this mission its so fucked up, his weapon tinker bell too which paralysis people fucking OP
When playing through this mission I was feeling like I was in a psychological horror anime
This mission made me say “whoa!”, & nothing more. As disturbing as it was, I wasn’t stopped dead in my tracks. And that’s because I read stories even darker stories than Cyberpunk 2077.
Before I encountered The Hunt, I had thought that the crucifixion mission was the most messed up. But no, The Hunt takes all prizes.
Yeah... this mission felt so real because it was very close to reality. If you've seen some real cases before in RL and you are also a parent it will get you even more.
And because of all that... it is one of the best missions for me in the game or I've ever played in 40 years of gaming.
When a game forces you to rethink and reflect on all of this it has done it's job very well.
And if you played this mission and not even felt something wrong about it, you should consider a deep and long check at your doc. 😵💫
7:52 is a hint of death stranding...
Playing the hunt on a new playthrough was still hard. And I've played through the game 4 times it's still unnerving
7:50 That might be a reference to Death stranding's BB.