the inherent tragedy that this story was the idea that David was never going to achieve his mom's dream for him, nor could he conceive of a goal for himself beyond finding a way to help Lucy achieve her dream.
Well, he was void in that regard since the beginning of the story. He didn't have dreams of his own, but he actually never tried to find one. I think that the reason for that is that he always thought of himself as a nobody without possibilities... even when he said repeatedly that he was special because of the lack of Sandevistan's secondary effects, he never used those powers for his own direct benefit but for the benefit of someone else: he was a pleaser. And at the end, I think that is confirmed when Adam Smasher tells him that he could be a good Contruct, but David responded with "I don't care". Also, he was not a hero, he never cared about others, but just for the people that apparently cared about him, and even that said, he urged them to put their lives in danger... like he did with Lucy that retired from being a cyberpunk but he wanted to do heists with her. Why would he want to do that if his goal was to protect her? That's because he was very selfish. I think that David was a very interesting character but the reason for that is because he was just a tool for the story to progress. He was a chosen one for the plot's sake. He lived, progressed and died the same way as many other secondary characters. As if the moral of the story is that it doesn't matter how special you feel you are, life will be harsh and unfair for everyone without exception in Night City.
He could have easily gotten to the top he just reached above his station before he was ready Adam Smasher is the gatekeeper that separates the upper level mercs from the peasants
@@cristianestrada708 I agree with many of your points, but not all, for one, the way David is depicted is really resembling of the sort of society boys in the third world like south America (David's Origin) are raised. Precisely a mother who works hard for them to study, imparting in them wills that aren't days, leading them to live a life that's not their own, for the majority of their life, it is just 'cope'. Your placed in this shitty environment and you have to find a way to cope... David did everything he could with what he was presented, there was an enhancement, he could have sold it cheap but choose to implant it, choose to follow Lucy, was betrayed and choose to be of use to them and become a criminal, choose to use a gun despite his mother's teachings to survive, he did whatever he could to cope... until that became his reality. The scene with Lucy in which he says that a ticket to the moon is cheaper than he expected was a clear indication that he could have retired, but the city had already engulfed him and corrupted him, he didn't want to leave the city with Lucy (her desire), he wanted her to live that reality with him, in the end, they were just opposite sides, she wanted to leave (take him to the moon with her), he wanted to stay (be an edgerunner with her, he even said verbally that he preferred her over Kiwi). But none of the two wanted it without the other... Lucy knew she couldn't convince him to leave, so she protected him from the dark; David also stopped inviting her to participate in their crimes until he was asked to do so... they were in a stalemate of not moving forward but David was getting worse and worse and Lucy knew this but couldn't do anything, when she finally thought it was enough David was long gone and wouldn't stop using the implants. The whole shit is too tragic, in the end, the one to blame is the city, if CDPR ever makes an expansion in which you can nuke the whole damn place, I'll buy the console, game and expansion just to do that.
@@cristianestrada708 We could even go as far as to place most of us in similar shoes, for us that live in cities, why not go to the country side? leave a peaceful life away from the fast pace and hassle of the capitals, the consumism, the drugs, always having the best phone and feeling bad if you don't, having the best shoes, looking the best physically... it is the same, not at the same scale, but the same, the city's corruption has already engulfed most and we just won't leave.
The thing that I noticed is how much foreshadowing this show had about his death which makes it more sad” his mother wanted him to be at the top of the tower in a high position and well respected yet he died at the very bottom of the tower with all the trash and rubble getting his head blown off. But one thing reminded that actually happened and that was he was respected by everyone that came across him even the person who killed him and the city he hated so much
It's not always "being at the top makes you respected by others", but instead, "being at the bottom always mean you'll be respected at the top".....something like that, maybe
@@riv2052 TF do you mean. He says he actually enjoyed it. Then tells him he would make a good construct. You don't say that to someone you have 0 respect for.
I can’t get over how cool the portrayal of this ability was in the anime. They could have gone with just the green filter and slowmo but they decided to also give it the after images,so it drives home how absurdly fast he is while using it.
Yeah it really hits different when you do the science and realize David is more or less mimicking the effects you would have if you were moving near the speed of light.
A tale of hubris, and immaturity. Young David is what Lucy fell in love with, but it's also what drove him to death. The scene looking up at the stars. "You're still fighting for other people's dreams". (Not to mention he has a warped view of his mother's dream for him). But it goes for all these cyber guys. The itch to keep improving and getting more and more. Even though they know that it's not a matter of if but when, for cyberpsychosis. But David believed he was special on top of it all, too. Poor guy. Lucy couldn't save him. But at least his dream was for Lucy at the end.
It's a tale of a man with a simple, and understandable dream. To live up to everyone's expectations of him, and to give the ones he loves a chance to fulfill their dreams. The fact that he's called "special" is no coincidence, the thing about wanting to live up to people's expectations for you is something that's highly relatable, and super common in people with unique talents, or "special" people. You feel that you're special and that you NEED to live up to everyone's expectations no matter the cost. It's something that I have personal experience with. And yeah, while I love Rebecca and support the meme of "Rebecca is the best character in all of Edgerunners". At the end of the day, David's story and motivations hit too close to home for him NOT to be my favorite character in the show.
David took himself having a high tolerance as a sign he was just outright immune- that he was special. And while in the end he very well may have been special, being special doesn't mean you can just ignore all the warning signs and expect nothing to happen.
There's something darkly humorous about the Sandevistan being David's get out of jail free card for most the series, only for Adam to go "lol that's basic stuff" and shitstomp David at the end when David tries to use it against him. While it was a powerful implant, it ultimately proved to just be a crutch for David that couldn't hold up against the real big boys.
Yup given time and actual experience he might have stood a chance. Smashers basically just human tank so his sandevistan, more of a focus on heavy bore weapons, experience and he might've had a real chance.
It doesn't make it very clear in the show but he is only 18 at the end of the series. He was still very much a kid risking his life facing down an (at minimum) roughly 50 year old legend of night city. Edited to add: if you read this and decide to try correcting me on Smashers age- firstly, you're wrong. He was a street punk in the 00s. He is *not* more than 80 at *max* and I've had this discussion at least 3 times in this comment chain alone.
@@Shadow-gc6le Nah, David stood no chance no matter what. The only people that can defeat adam are Morgan Blackhand and V, David is like a cyberpunk 2077 npc fighting against V for comparison
@@Georgefloydthesneedster he wouldn’t be a random npc, he was the leader of a famous group that every youth in night city wanted to join at one point. He’s a night city legend, but not on the level of V or smasher. Definitely not a random fodder.
In 2020, cyberware worked by knocking off one Empathy point after another, the CP2020 equivalent to Charisma. People with higher starting Empathy obviously had a longer way to go before hitting 0. On your way down, you experienced losing one point of Empathy after another, each time making human interaction a tiny bit harder.
@@TipoIrritable There was no difference in cyberpsychosis resistance between characters. If you install a Mr. Studd it will give you 2 six-sided dice of Humanity Cost. So between 2 and 12 points. It's just luck. The more dehumanizing the chrome was, the harder it hit. One of the most HC-intense things you could install was a metal face mask. A necessity for complete protection of your brain if you wanted to be entirely coated in metal, but you were ripping your own face out and replacing it with inarticulate metal. 10 full HC means you knocked one point of Empathy off. Having high starting Empathy meant you had a longer way to fall until you hit 0. Each point knocked off made human interaction just a little harder though. People who have low Empathy to start with have less to give before 0.
Fun Fact: In the original Cyberpunk 2020 Sandevistan "Speedware" exists alongside Kerenzikov "Boostware", which is pretty much the same except for a few major differences. Kerenzikov operates slower than Sandevistan, but is always active, and cannot be turned off.
@@dustinjones7458 not really, you just have to recondition yourself to a slower moving world. Silverhand had a Kerenzikov, it was mentioned in the 2020 book iirc
If David had stuck to some leg implants, a monowire or mantis blade and maybe some reflex boosters, he'd be as effective and alive. It's pretty sad what powercreep does to you.
Yupppp. David thought a high tolerance for cyberware meant he had an immunity to cyberpsychosis, but the reality is that he only had a high tolerance. He eventually broke that tolerance, and it led to his death.
The first hint that the Sandevistan is more common than believed amongst higher ups is when we first see the bearded cyber psycho at the beginning use one. If anything, after the opening, we were WAITING to see how many people were in use of it just because of how cool it looked.
@@smugcu3073 my point is that when he’s using it, one of the soldiers says he’s sporting “military grade ice” and the older soldier says “so? So are we.” My point isn’t that the cyber psycho is central to David’s Sandevistan. I’m saying the fact the soldiers weren’t intimated by the Sandevistan must mean it’s more common amongst the rich and elite. It’s like when a young adult discovers “whiskey culture” but to a weed smoker, it’s just another booze. Beneath them, possibly even.
@@Blast2224 Not really the rich, but the Military. The Cyberpsycho at the start was Ex-Military hence his Sandevistan. But then again, Maine was trying to buy that one via David's Mom. So very hard to get hold off and very expensive for Common People
For context with people not familiar with the game, a lot of npc’s and yourself could use the Sandy but only to vaguely dodge for brief moments. David and Adam’s bursts were literal speedster movements. Loved their depiction of the speed movements.
Not really, as the player using a Sandevistan you can do the same as David and if you improve it with heatsinks you get unlimited sandevistan uptime without going cyberpsycho or receiving health damage, the latter happens to David because he installed the Sandevistan without proper training, meanwhile the ripperdocs in the game won't install you the sandevistan if you don't meet the minimum requirements unlike David's shady ripperdoc who in fact wanted him to go mad or die from using it. V from the game would wipe the floor with David even worse than Adam Smasher did. Besides David's sandevistan is probably the mk2 at best.
@@Deevious. The mk2 is the military version within game, it's the one max tac uses, I think this is also most likely the same version that David is using, the legendary and purple sandevistans are probably custom made and even better than military hardware.
@@abstractfactory8068 I feel like it’s not that simple though, it seems established that excessive cyberware usage will drive anyone insane eventually. by this logic some of the people involved in the cyberpsycho sightings probably shouldn’t have snapped, and in the tabletop game no one is immune from it, just a matter of time based on character stats. but I do think V is uniquely resistant to cyberpsychosis somehow, maybe because of how the Relic affects his brain. realistically though it’s probably mainly a gameplay decision that I can’t blame CDPR for
@@goku8621 well in Max payne 2 it's basically as if you're using the sandevistan since max literally can run faster than everyone and can break the laws of physics
@@goku8621 In 2020, they worked the same way. Both were neural co-processors that improved your Initiative. A kerenzikov gives you +1 or +2, gives more Humanity Cost and was active all the time so you always felt like wading through mud. Sandevistan was activated in bursts of 5 rounds, had a lower HC since it wasn't always on and could give +3 instead. By comparison, the top of the line eurosolos have +10 Initiative from pure skills and instinct. The wits and experience of a solo is always faster than metal.
5:43 is my absolute favorite. 1) It’s so smooth. 2) It was at the height of a dramatic-yet-cliche villain speech which made it cool AND hilarious 3) It’s so smooth
The fact that militech didn’t even want david dead but just wanted the cyber skeleton and lucy herself even told david to not get in the cyber skeleton because it’s a trap but he still got in just makes me sad.. like he could’ve saved her just with his sandevistan..
He was already going cyberpsycho, without the suit Adam would've curbed stomped him, assuming he even would have gotten there in time since there was a Militech blockade and she was in an aircraft.
nope, cyberpsychosis were already killing david, in the last mission david said to rebecca that he needed that rebecca inject in him the drug to stay alive, but the doc say to him that when he uses the last dose of antipsycho drug, he will became psycho forever, so david take the big work to pay the future of lucy and the others, it was his final work so he wanted to be a job with a pretty good payment to do it, and david almost were psycho because he had changed too many parts of his body to cyberware, he had legs with charged jump, sandevistan, mini launcher in one hand, and several upgrades in his body, in one time the doc said to him that he need to update his cyberware to a more recent and optimized versions because he were in options to develop cyberpsychosis earlier because usually older cyberware stress more the body, in the game is stated that V has minimalistic cyberware even if you put something on every part of your body, but he/she had not mixed cyberware, and he/she is used to have major upgrades because his/her brain were rebuild by nanomachines to let the brain be used by the engram of johnny silverhand, and to can upgrade him in more ways, it was the relic developed by arasaka for rich and powerful people so it was put in mind that those people were going to get more cyberware than any other people to live more time, that is why V did not develop cyberpsychosis when even chippin all his/her body, because his/her brain were able to support those changes because of the relic implant.
Not really cause it was arasaka he was going up against,remember those guys had militech sandevistans like he did and even more implants to counter david so more then Lively he would have died anyway
The sad thing is that if he just stopped at the Sandevistan he might have loved a actual life and he kept going. Maybe the cyber ankles were nessasary because I bet that thing would fuck up your ankles moving so fast… but if he stopped and used his wit and stuff instead of relying on getting more and more parts he could have not died like that Also if he went back to a school he would have enddd up in that thing and probably became a human solider. He would have had so much more resistance and they would have probably experimented on him more and turned him into something like smasher. He was doomed from the moment he put that spine on… and if he didn’t do that he would have been doomed too
Heck.. even with all of the upgrades. If he took a break and had some mental health counseling. He could have easily prevented onset of cyberpsychosis. There are even dedicated psychiatrists to cyberpsychosis in cyberpunk universe
@Ajit Adonis Manilal the psychosis was due to trauma, the creator said that having trauma and being heavily augmented is an easy was to become a cyberpsycho, like the ex marine at the start of the show or the homeless war vet half way in that kills Pilar
I'm assuming the dude with the hammer ( 3.30 ) has a kerenzikov instead of a sandevistan, because he was able to keep up with David but just barely, given that it only lasted a couple seconds before David became faster than him
@@Ramsey276one kerenzikov is like for a few seconds and it is activated automatically as a defensive chrome Whilst Sandevistan has different degrees and rarities,with unique extras to them additionally and it needs to be activated manually and lasts much longer.
@@universetrigger2316 nah The choom did not had Sandevistan as his reaction only last for a few seconds then his time dilutation changed back to normal.
Most folks don’t realize that the implant affixed to David’s spine is the neural processor. The Sandevistan itself is the small coprocessor that the Doc drops into the main processor at the end - you see it open-up and close.
@@pinkliongaming8769so basically the sandevistan is a small processor that fits in the palm of your hand. the thing is it won't work on most people because they have a civilian grade neuralink. The thing on David's spine is a top grade neuralink that makes david able to operate a sandevistan. A neuralink is a cyberware that connects it and other cyberware to your brain so you can control it mentally.
I like the mirror between Simon from Gurren Lagann and David from Edgerunners. Simon in his character arc, wanted to live up to people's expectations and worked so hard for it to the point where he couldn't fight anymore. What ended up happening is that he had an awakening where he realized, he doesn't have to live up to people's expectations of him to become the new Kamina, just fulfill his own expectations of himself and embrace himself as Simon the Digger. David is like if Simon never had that awakening of him realizing that he doesn't need to fulfill other people's expectations of him. He thought himself as someone "special", and as someone "special", you feel the need to fulfill everyone's expectations for you. He never had that awakening Simon got, and instead of listening to his body that told him he couldn't fight anymore, he just kept moving forwards, in an attempt to please Maine, his mom, and Lucy's expectations for him. And eventually, it leads to his death. And although, tragic, he did end up fulfilling everyone's wishes at the end. One is a Tragic Hero, about a man who found himself, and saved the world, but ended up losing the love of his life for it. While the other is a Heroic Tragedy, about someone "special" who got too caught up fulfilling everyone's expectations, that it ended up with his brains scattered across the pavement. But at the end of the day, both their stories ended with them smiling, one had fulfilled himself, while one had fulfilled everyone's expectations that they had for him. Both will be remembered as legends til the end of time.
@@kiril10 They might have used the formula as a basis for their story. But far from copied. It's like sharing a movie genre, but being even more closely related. Yet they're distinct stories overall. As OP nicely pointed out, there are parallels - but very deliberate differences that make it play out in a different way to make a point. The writers knew precisely what they were doing and why, which is the opposite of blindly copying stuff.
PGR lasted only for few seconds but bosses can overcome it Shame it can't be upgraded like Nier Automata where perfect dodge + time stop chips works like Sandevistan
I never thought of that tbh but if we talking about technicalities David’s hand would also explode and the floor would also explode from the amount of force he would need to move that fast
Its more about efficency i guess. David had limit-breaking expierience, his last effort to fulfill his love's dreams and pushing himself knowing, he isnt going to make it. For Smasher it was just a bit unusual day at work.
You know, when the crew was all alive, David always managed to grab Becca with his sandy, whether it's for her safety or for as simple as getting through the club. If only David was fast enough to grab her before the "smash", or stomp
I love the sort of death note Light dynamic they did with david at the end. Showing flashbacks of the early episodes when david was more innocent and wasn't a full cyborg then returning to the weapon david has become not even having limbs anymore being fully integrated into a mech suit. His life could've been so much more if he had just stuck to the sandevistan and maybe a couple other upgrades instead of going full chrome
I really hope if they ever make another cyberpunk game, they make cyberpsychosis an actual game mechanic. Like you can choose to go through the game without any implants and it has an actual effect on the story
@@kimshi2002 Jetstream Sam had a legit Nano-suit enhancing his already nano-machine infused blood. Not AS bad as Raiden, but a normal human would have no chance of using standard reaction speeds to even fight, much less equal, Raiden during their first and second conflicts.
5:50 around here, no one talks about this, the most mind boggling part about this anime, David hits the Sandevistan so hard or maybe all the adrenaline of being shot in the gut hits him mixed with it he splits into 4 afterimage/clone things, Which is insane to me.
Remember that if they have this in real life then only the rich could afford it, and this have heavy strand on your body, normally you only suppose to use this about 2 time a day if you don't want your brain to explode
@2 minutes and 31 seconds - I never realize Cyber Psychosis started affecting David as early as a few episodes into the series. Damn, such a subtle detail that's easy to miss if you're not paying attention. But it's their.
That wasn't actual cyberpsychosis, that was just David experiencing an XBD where it makes it seem like he's a cyber psycho, hence the entire military and even Max Tac raining down on his ass
During the chase in episode 3, and judging by all the fast moves David made and us seeing him use it, my best guess is that he used his Sandevistan 15 times. At that with the times before and after the chase, David used it 17 times, which is almost 6 times more than what his ripperdoc's recommended limit.
Sandevistan and mantis blade could have made a perfect pair. I don't get why he put on so much fire power (for long range) and speed enchantment (for close range), while still using sandesvistan. It baffling me.
From what I remember of 2020, the sandevistan implant didn't make you faster. It improved your Initative by +3, making you react faster than the world around you. You experience the world in slow motion, but you are not moving in super-speed apart from other objects in it. You activated it for bursts of five rounds or so. There was another model as well, kerenzikov boosters. They were a lot harder on your Humanity Cost since they were always on and you lived permanently in a weird time distortion. Their bonus was +1 or +2. On the plus side, they were always on. Both were neuralware, so you got to have a neuralware system to plug them into. And you couldn't have both kerenzikov and sandevistan, they are doing the same thing but placing the strain slightly differently. As a comparison, an experienced solo could get a skill that increased their Initiative. Solos with +5 or +7 were easily playable or encountered on the street, even +10 Initiative from pure skill and street experience existed in the world. But when solos face other solos, they value every edge they can get. Winning Initiative often determined entire firefights, you get to be just a fraction of a second faster when rolling into cover or lining up a shot on the other bloke. You could get an adrenal booster on top of those. +1 Reflexes (and therefore Initiative) a few times a day so not all that often compared to the pure neuralware.
The "Sandevistan." The name supposedly derived from the word "Devastation," and rightfully so. If this existed in real life, so many people could do so many terrifying things in the blink of an eye
Taking in account it's price and problems with installation, it's still less devastating than a supersonic rocket. Although if the odds come across its real dread is that it can be used in nonmilitary situations, as a weapon of some cyberpsycho. But still, it's a really rare chrome in cyberpunk universe, according to series. So not so many people.
I'd hate to imagine what war looks like in the world of cyberpunk. With everyone's sandevistan or kerenziko, the battlefield must look almost rehearsed
If he minimized his cyberization and took up using a bladed weapon and trained together with his sandevistan, David could have been another Jetstream Sam or a raiden. Or both. Except he would not be from a lusophone nation.
Oh, David... Dear David... My sweet, charming David... Have you so easily forgotten that I bestowed you with part of King Crimson's power? Now's your chance to apply your unique talents.
I wonder how long he would have lasted if he just kept with his original mod? Maybe do a couple of light body reinforcements such as the bones or muscle, just enough to handle a little more than normal and call it good. Dude probably could've lived for awhile that way.
3:34 he probably had lesser model of one of the Sandies probably one that only slows time down to 50% but notice have a caught David off guard and nearly hit him
By the end David never forgot what his mum wanted for him. But by this point he was no longer David. He was only known as the Sandevistan of Santo Domingo
Missed the most iconic one which is where he came back to lucy with Maine's severed arm. That's the moment he start degrading mentally. Great video man
my favorite bit is when we get to see the real time after, like you usually only get one or the other. its like the show goes "and thats what happened, got it? good, now, here it is again"
the inherent tragedy that this story was the idea that David was never going to achieve his mom's dream for him, nor could he conceive of a goal for himself beyond finding a way to help Lucy achieve her dream.
He did, he was on the top like Adam Smasher was. Your death defines you
Well, he was void in that regard since the beginning of the story. He didn't have dreams of his own, but he actually never tried to find one. I think that the reason for that is that he always thought of himself as a nobody without possibilities... even when he said repeatedly that he was special because of the lack of Sandevistan's secondary effects, he never used those powers for his own direct benefit but for the benefit of someone else: he was a pleaser.
And at the end, I think that is confirmed when Adam Smasher tells him that he could be a good Contruct, but David responded with "I don't care".
Also, he was not a hero, he never cared about others, but just for the people that apparently cared about him, and even that said, he urged them to put their lives in danger... like he did with Lucy that retired from being a cyberpunk but he wanted to do heists with her. Why would he want to do that if his goal was to protect her? That's because he was very selfish.
I think that David was a very interesting character but the reason for that is because he was just a tool for the story to progress. He was a chosen one for the plot's sake. He lived, progressed and died the same way as many other secondary characters.
As if the moral of the story is that it doesn't matter how special you feel you are, life will be harsh and unfair for everyone without exception in Night City.
He could have easily gotten to the top he just reached above his station before he was ready Adam Smasher is the gatekeeper that separates the upper level mercs from the peasants
@@cristianestrada708 I agree with many of your points, but not all, for one, the way David is depicted is really resembling of the sort of society boys in the third world like south America (David's Origin) are raised. Precisely a mother who works hard for them to study, imparting in them wills that aren't days, leading them to live a life that's not their own, for the majority of their life, it is just 'cope'. Your placed in this shitty environment and you have to find a way to cope... David did everything he could with what he was presented, there was an enhancement, he could have sold it cheap but choose to implant it, choose to follow Lucy, was betrayed and choose to be of use to them and become a criminal, choose to use a gun despite his mother's teachings to survive, he did whatever he could to cope... until that became his reality. The scene with Lucy in which he says that a ticket to the moon is cheaper than he expected was a clear indication that he could have retired, but the city had already engulfed him and corrupted him, he didn't want to leave the city with Lucy (her desire), he wanted her to live that reality with him, in the end, they were just opposite sides, she wanted to leave (take him to the moon with her), he wanted to stay (be an edgerunner with her, he even said verbally that he preferred her over Kiwi). But none of the two wanted it without the other... Lucy knew she couldn't convince him to leave, so she protected him from the dark; David also stopped inviting her to participate in their crimes until he was asked to do so... they were in a stalemate of not moving forward but David was getting worse and worse and Lucy knew this but couldn't do anything, when she finally thought it was enough David was long gone and wouldn't stop using the implants. The whole shit is too tragic, in the end, the one to blame is the city, if CDPR ever makes an expansion in which you can nuke the whole damn place, I'll buy the console, game and expansion just to do that.
@@cristianestrada708 We could even go as far as to place most of us in similar shoes, for us that live in cities, why not go to the country side? leave a peaceful life away from the fast pace and hassle of the capitals, the consumism, the drugs, always having the best phone and feeling bad if you don't, having the best shoes, looking the best physically... it is the same, not at the same scale, but the same, the city's corruption has already engulfed most and we just won't leave.
Its a fitting name for something so shrouded in shock and awe.
"The Sandevistan" is truly something to behold.
It sounds cool…
Not really when you have to implant that shit in your spine
Also kerenzikov for when your sandevistan is on cooldown 😂
@@RyukoKiryuin510 that too
I dont get it
The thing that I noticed is how much foreshadowing this show had about his death which makes it more sad” his mother wanted him to be at the top of the tower in a high position and well respected yet he died at the very bottom of the tower with all the trash and rubble getting his head blown off. But one thing reminded that actually happened and that was he was respected by everyone that came across him even the person who killed him and the city he hated so much
It's not always "being at the top makes you respected by others", but instead, "being at the bottom always mean you'll be respected at the top".....something like that, maybe
his killer did not respect him at all, he even tells him that as he does it
@@riv2052 TF do you mean. He says he actually enjoyed it. Then tells him he would make a good construct. You don't say that to someone you have 0 respect for.
@@Dijitz23 I was just about to comment that to him but you did it for me😂
At the end of the opening you can see him being shot in the head lol
The fact that Adam could do the same thing was fucking terrifying. No wonder he's considered an unstoppable killing machine.
They really could have used more enemies with it
Adam said it himself, to a Full Borg like him, the Sandivistan is just a "Rudimentary Implant", even one as Military Grade as David's.
my v disagree
Worst is that he considers it baby shit
@@realhumanbean7915 because it is in the world of high level mercs it's one of the most basic implants you have
I can’t get over how cool the portrayal of this ability was in the anime. They could have gone with just the green filter and slowmo but they decided to also give it the after images,so it drives home how absurdly fast he is while using it.
I love the sound effect, sounds like a high tech gear shift.
It’s kind of immature but I imagine there are afterimages in the game as well because it pleases me
Yeah it really hits different when you do the science and realize David is more or less mimicking the effects you would have if you were moving near the speed of light.
A tale of hubris, and immaturity. Young David is what Lucy fell in love with, but it's also what drove him to death. The scene looking up at the stars. "You're still fighting for other people's dreams". (Not to mention he has a warped view of his mother's dream for him). But it goes for all these cyber guys. The itch to keep improving and getting more and more. Even though they know that it's not a matter of if but when, for cyberpsychosis. But David believed he was special on top of it all, too. Poor guy. Lucy couldn't save him. But at least his dream was for Lucy at the end.
It's a tale of a man with a simple, and understandable dream.
To live up to everyone's expectations of him, and to give the ones he loves a chance to fulfill their dreams.
The fact that he's called "special" is no coincidence, the thing about wanting to live up to people's expectations for you is something that's highly relatable, and super common in people with unique talents, or "special" people.
You feel that you're special and that you NEED to live up to everyone's expectations no matter the cost.
It's something that I have personal experience with.
And yeah, while I love Rebecca and support the meme of "Rebecca is the best character in all of Edgerunners".
At the end of the day, David's story and motivations hit too close to home for him NOT to be my favorite character in the show.
Yup. It's the tragedy of Icarus time and time again. Had there ever been a myth more universally applicable to human nature? I don't think so.
@@Hi-Im-Gib David's up there but unironicly Becca is my favorite character and deserved happiness david
he did technically die sane
David took himself having a high tolerance as a sign he was just outright immune- that he was special. And while in the end he very well may have been special, being special doesn't mean you can just ignore all the warning signs and expect nothing to happen.
There's something darkly humorous about the Sandevistan being David's get out of jail free card for most the series, only for Adam to go "lol that's basic stuff" and shitstomp David at the end when David tries to use it against him. While it was a powerful implant, it ultimately proved to just be a crutch for David that couldn't hold up against the real big boys.
Yup given time and actual experience he might have stood a chance. Smashers basically just human tank so his sandevistan, more of a focus on heavy bore weapons, experience and he might've had a real chance.
It doesn't make it very clear in the show but he is only 18 at the end of the series. He was still very much a kid risking his life facing down an (at minimum) roughly 50 year old legend of night city.
Edited to add: if you read this and decide to try correcting me on Smashers age- firstly, you're wrong. He was a street punk in the 00s. He is *not* more than 80 at *max* and I've had this discussion at least 3 times in this comment chain alone.
@@Shadow-gc6le Nah, David stood no chance no matter what. The only people that can defeat adam are Morgan Blackhand and V, David is like a cyberpunk 2077 npc fighting against V for comparison
@@Georgefloydthesneedster he wouldn’t be a random npc, he was the leader of a famous group that every youth in night city wanted to join at one point. He’s a night city legend, but not on the level of V or smasher. Definitely not a random fodder.
@@draxelo6192 legend? sure
fodder to V and adam? Also sure
The Sound design the Visuals when this thing gets Activated is fucking phenomenal and fear inducing the first 3 times
I like that a lot of the time it shows it slowed down from David's perspective and then shows what it actually looks like to everyone else.
@@shoobzy3431 yeah and that's so cool
@@shoobzy3431 yup and it shows that he's not stopping or slowing down time , he's just really fast
@@lukky6648 man is given a tool that makes him almost as fast as the flash. That's broken when you think about it.
@@imsentinelprime9279 Not only that, it also lets him break physics.
3:55 I love that they put in the outside perspective replay
It's like the time he used the Sandevistan for the first time in episode 2.
I audibly laughed and shook my head in amazement the first time I saw this
Only that the observer perspective is wrong, he should be upside down and mid landing when he fires the wrist cannon.
@@johnsmith361 na he just built different, he flipped in the split second after shooting.
You can see sweat on him on one of his first usages of it. He wasn’t immune to Cyberpsychosis. Just had a higher tolerance than others.
In 2020, cyberware worked by knocking off one Empathy point after another, the CP2020 equivalent to Charisma. People with higher starting Empathy obviously had a longer way to go before hitting 0. On your way down, you experienced losing one point of Empathy after another, each time making human interaction a tiny bit harder.
@@SusCalvin V is just build different. If’s David tolerance is a 10 and Smaher is a 100, V is like 1000
@@TipoIrritable There was no difference in cyberpsychosis resistance between characters. If you install a Mr. Studd it will give you 2 six-sided dice of Humanity Cost. So between 2 and 12 points. It's just luck.
The more dehumanizing the chrome was, the harder it hit. One of the most HC-intense things you could install was a metal face mask. A necessity for complete protection of your brain if you wanted to be entirely coated in metal, but you were ripping your own face out and replacing it with inarticulate metal.
10 full HC means you knocked one point of Empathy off. Having high starting Empathy meant you had a longer way to fall until you hit 0. Each point knocked off made human interaction just a little harder though. People who have low Empathy to start with have less to give before 0.
@@TipoIrritable Its less so V and more so that Johnny was holding his shit together for him.
@@V-O-V Not that much too. He could canonically resist T-Bug, so that puts him ahead every Net and Merc
Fun Fact: In the original Cyberpunk 2020 Sandevistan "Speedware" exists alongside Kerenzikov "Boostware", which is pretty much the same except for a few major differences. Kerenzikov operates slower than Sandevistan, but is always active, and cannot be turned off.
Kerenikov also drives you cyberpsycho much faster. I think Smasher probably prefers that and considers Sandevistan a 'rudimentary upgrade'.
@@dustinjones7458 not really, you just have to recondition yourself to a slower moving world. Silverhand had a Kerenzikov, it was mentioned in the 2020 book iirc
I would imagine the implant that is on 24/7 would be really mentally draining.
@@Saeiane777 Enough 'reconditioning' and eventually it's just easier to not be human, tho.
Makes me want to think "What If david had a kerenzikov instead of the sandevistan"
If David had stuck to some leg implants, a monowire or mantis blade and maybe some reflex boosters, he'd be as effective and alive. It's pretty sad what powercreep does to you.
Immaturity is a deadly poison
Yupppp. David thought a high tolerance for cyberware meant he had an immunity to cyberpsychosis, but the reality is that he only had a high tolerance. He eventually broke that tolerance, and it led to his death.
The double jump 😤
Would he really still be alive? He’d still have to go up against Adam Smasher in the end
@@somedude3820 also cuz he already had pre-implant symptoms of psychosis so it's a matter of when for him
Ngl, pre-buffed David sandevistan usage was more intriguing to me
How so? The way he used it was always the same, he just got more competent with it with time.
He would've lived longer if he stuck with it only
He should have just got mantis blades or something not turn into a complete machine Maybe he would have lived longer
@@The_House_Always_Wins not maybe he would've bc as soon as he started to go fully mech he start to move towards becoming a cyberpsycho
@@TheUnknown-cz2hp I mean, he obviously had to get some upgrades for his body, since it wouldn't last long if he would continue using sandy
"You have a Sandevistan?!"
*"A rudimentary implant."*
David's signature cyberware was just a basic implant for Smasher. Let that sink in for a moment.
The first hint that the Sandevistan is more common than believed amongst higher ups is when we first see the bearded cyber psycho at the beginning use one. If anything, after the opening, we were WAITING to see how many people were in use of it just because of how cool it looked.
🤓
@@Blast2224 The guy in the opening IS where David's Sandevistan comes from. That's one of the plot points.
@@smugcu3073 my point is that when he’s using it, one of the soldiers says he’s sporting “military grade ice” and the older soldier says “so? So are we.” My point isn’t that the cyber psycho is central to David’s Sandevistan. I’m saying the fact the soldiers weren’t intimated by the Sandevistan must mean it’s more common amongst the rich and elite.
It’s like when a young adult discovers “whiskey culture” but to a weed smoker, it’s just another booze. Beneath them, possibly even.
@@Blast2224 Not really the rich, but the Military. The Cyberpsycho at the start was Ex-Military hence his Sandevistan. But then again, Maine was trying to buy that one via David's Mom. So very hard to get hold off and very expensive for Common People
The fact they added the real time playback at 3:55 for the kill is so fucking raw
How am i just noticing this 😅
For context with people not familiar with the game, a lot of npc’s and yourself could use the Sandy but only to vaguely dodge for brief moments. David and Adam’s bursts were literal speedster movements. Loved their depiction of the speed movements.
Not really, as the player using a Sandevistan you can do the same as David and if you improve it with heatsinks you get unlimited sandevistan uptime without going cyberpsycho or receiving health damage, the latter happens to David because he installed the Sandevistan without proper training, meanwhile the ripperdocs in the game won't install you the sandevistan if you don't meet the minimum requirements unlike David's shady ripperdoc who in fact wanted him to go mad or die from using it. V from the game would wipe the floor with David even worse than Adam Smasher did. Besides David's sandevistan is probably the mk2 at best.
@@abstractfactory8068Dunno about a mk 2 since the way it slowed down time it was more akin to the Warp dancer sandy
@@abstractfactory8068 David literally had a military grade sandy
@@Deevious. The mk2 is the military version within game, it's the one max tac uses, I think this is also most likely the same version that David is using, the legendary and purple sandevistans are probably custom made and even better than military hardware.
@@abstractfactory8068 I feel like it’s not that simple though, it seems established that excessive cyberware usage will drive anyone insane eventually. by this logic some of the people involved in the cyberpsycho sightings probably shouldn’t have snapped, and in the tabletop game no one is immune from it, just a matter of time based on character stats.
but I do think V is uniquely resistant to cyberpsychosis somehow, maybe because of how the Relic affects his brain. realistically though it’s probably mainly a gameplay decision that I can’t blame CDPR for
3:59 I love how after this use he starts spamming it throughout the last 2 episodes. The lead up to this and onward was great
4:00 DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT USING YOUR SANDEVIS-TTTTAAAAAANNNNN(slow-mo)
Seriously, I fucking loved that part.
Guess he's fuckin deaf now
(3:27) The bit where David jumped over the guy and blasted a hole through his head hits DIFFERENTLY!
rip David
my favorite scene of him using the sandy for sure
Such a sick scene
David is basically the next max payne since the sandevidstan is literally like having bullet time built into you.
That’s more like Kerenzikov the Sandevistan basically stops time
@@goku8621 well in Max payne 2 it's basically as if you're using the sandevistan since max literally can run faster than everyone and can break the laws of physics
@@goku8621 plus I uploaded a vid of max payne 2 it's like he's the inventor of the the sandevistan
@@goku8621 In 2020, they worked the same way. Both were neural co-processors that improved your Initiative. A kerenzikov gives you +1 or +2, gives more Humanity Cost and was active all the time so you always felt like wading through mud. Sandevistan was activated in bursts of 5 rounds, had a lower HC since it wasn't always on and could give +3 instead.
By comparison, the top of the line eurosolos have +10 Initiative from pure skills and instinct. The wits and experience of a solo is always faster than metal.
V dogshits everyokeb
5:43 is my absolute favorite.
1) It’s so smooth.
2) It was at the height of a dramatic-yet-cliche villain speech which made it cool AND hilarious
3) It’s so smooth
LOL YEAH i love how he just slid in there
it was unsettling somehow
4) it is just as cool in the game
5) the sound of it in the game is cool
6) it’s so smooth. Gotta agree with that choom
I love this part of episode so much! With his badass intervention and then the song playing... It makes my heart skip a beat every time I rewatch it.
The fact that militech didn’t even want david dead but just wanted the cyber skeleton and lucy herself even told david to not get in the cyber skeleton because it’s a trap but he still got in just makes me sad.. like he could’ve saved her just with his sandevistan..
Adam has it too he would’ve died
He already installed the cyberskeleton sadly way before Lucy called him to tell him the truth. His limbs were all already ripped off too.
He was already going cyberpsycho, without the suit Adam would've curbed stomped him, assuming he even would have gotten there in time since there was a Militech blockade and she was in an aircraft.
nope, cyberpsychosis were already killing david, in the last mission david said to rebecca that he needed that rebecca inject in him the drug to stay alive, but the doc say to him that when he uses the last dose of antipsycho drug, he will became psycho forever, so david take the big work to pay the future of lucy and the others, it was his final work so he wanted to be a job with a pretty good payment to do it, and david almost were psycho because he had changed too many parts of his body to cyberware, he had legs with charged jump, sandevistan, mini launcher in one hand, and several upgrades in his body, in one time the doc said to him that he need to update his cyberware to a more recent and optimized versions because he were in options to develop cyberpsychosis earlier because usually older cyberware stress more the body, in the game is stated that V has minimalistic cyberware even if you put something on every part of your body, but he/she had not mixed cyberware, and he/she is used to have major upgrades because his/her brain were rebuild by nanomachines to let the brain be used by the engram of johnny silverhand, and to can upgrade him in more ways, it was the relic developed by arasaka for rich and powerful people so it was put in mind that those people were going to get more cyberware than any other people to live more time, that is why V did not develop cyberpsychosis when even chippin all his/her body, because his/her brain were able to support those changes because of the relic implant.
Not really cause it was arasaka he was going up against,remember those guys had militech sandevistans like he did and even more implants to counter david so more then Lively he would have died anyway
1:25 me when i first time playing cyberpunk and try to make a turn on a car not realizing how floaty the physics is
Lmao
The part when David "smuggled" Rebecca into Afterlife and you could see Rogue laughing at the scene was just perfect
The sad thing is that if he just stopped at the Sandevistan he might have loved a actual life and he kept going. Maybe the cyber ankles were nessasary because I bet that thing would fuck up your ankles moving so fast… but if he stopped and used his wit and stuff instead of relying on getting more and more parts he could have not died like that
Also if he went back to a school he would have enddd up in that thing and probably became a human solider. He would have had so much more resistance and they would have probably experimented on him more and turned him into something like smasher. He was doomed from the moment he put that spine on… and if he didn’t do that he would have been doomed too
Heck.. even with all of the upgrades.
If he took a break and had some mental health counseling. He could have easily prevented onset of cyberpsychosis.
There are even dedicated psychiatrists to cyberpsychosis in cyberpunk universe
It is also possible that if he went to school, he would have been used as a lab rat.
Yes
@@benfromthesewers1688 Cyberpsychosis has a permanent mark on you even with therapy
@Ajit Adonis Manilal the psychosis was due to trauma, the creator said that having trauma and being heavily augmented is an easy was to become a cyberpsycho, like the ex marine at the start of the show or the homeless war vet half way in that kills Pilar
I really love the replays and how it looks in real time.
I'm assuming the dude with the hammer ( 3.30 ) has a kerenzikov instead of a sandevistan, because he was able to keep up with David but just barely, given that it only lasted a couple seconds before David became faster than him
Figures there’s competing brands
XD
i think they have the same specs honestly , david won cause of the extra foot augment combined while he's in speed mode
@@Ramsey276one kerenzikov is like for a few seconds and it is activated automatically as a defensive chrome
Whilst Sandevistan has different degrees and rarities,with unique extras to them additionally and it needs to be activated manually and lasts much longer.
@@universetrigger2316 nah
The choom did not had Sandevistan as his reaction only last for a few seconds then his time dilutation changed back to normal.
@@attilakovacs5040 I am honestly behind on Cyberpunk, but I don't plan to be for long
XD
1:25 I like they incorporate the bugs into the anime making it like its international
The SFX for this is just perfect
Most folks don’t realize that the implant affixed to David’s spine is the neural processor. The Sandevistan itself is the small coprocessor that the Doc drops into the main processor at the end - you see it open-up and close.
Huh... neat
Wait what? Can you explain more?
@@pinkliongaming8769so basically the sandevistan is a small processor that fits in the palm of your hand. the thing is it won't work on most people because they have a civilian grade neuralink. The thing on David's spine is a top grade neuralink that makes david able to operate a sandevistan.
A neuralink is a cyberware that connects it and other cyberware to your brain so you can control it mentally.
I like the mirror between Simon from Gurren Lagann and David from Edgerunners.
Simon in his character arc, wanted to live up to people's expectations and worked so hard for it to the point where he couldn't fight anymore.
What ended up happening is that he had an awakening where he realized, he doesn't have to live up to people's expectations of him to become the new Kamina, just fulfill his own expectations of himself and embrace himself as Simon the Digger.
David is like if Simon never had that awakening of him realizing that he doesn't need to fulfill other people's expectations of him.
He thought himself as someone "special", and as someone "special", you feel the need to fulfill everyone's expectations for you.
He never had that awakening Simon got, and instead of listening to his body that told him he couldn't fight anymore, he just kept moving forwards, in an attempt to please Maine, his mom, and Lucy's expectations for him.
And eventually, it leads to his death. And although, tragic, he did end up fulfilling everyone's wishes at the end.
One is a Tragic Hero, about a man who found himself, and saved the world, but ended up losing the love of his life for it.
While the other is a Heroic Tragedy, about someone "special" who got too caught up fulfilling everyone's expectations, that it ended up with his brains scattered across the pavement.
But at the end of the day, both their stories ended with them smiling, one had fulfilled himself, while one had fulfilled everyone's expectations that they had for him. Both will be remembered as legends til the end of time.
David's Kamina would've been V but sadly his story doesn't start until a year later
@@icey3495 His Kamina is Maine. Or do you mean like an older siblings type role model?
Even there, Trigger copied Gurenn-Lagann. Sad.
@@kiril10 copied? That's always been trigger's formula even as early as gunbuster.
@@kiril10 They might have used the formula as a basis for their story. But far from copied.
It's like sharing a movie genre, but being even more closely related.
Yet they're distinct stories overall.
As OP nicely pointed out, there are parallels - but very deliberate differences that make it play out in a different way to make a point.
The writers knew precisely what they were doing and why, which is the opposite of blindly copying stuff.
You know, in concept, the Sandevistan reminds of the Matrix mechanic in Punishing Gray Raven, whose playable characters are also cyborgs or androids.
PGR lasted only for few seconds but bosses can overcome it
Shame it can't be upgraded like Nier Automata where perfect dodge + time stop chips works like Sandevistan
And they even have a sort of Cyberpsychosis lore in PGR with the concept of M.I.N.D deviation.
man when I watched the show I knew the sandevistan reminded me of something, just forgot all about PGR after I quit lol
Yeah constructs
The ungodly emount of speed he gets from it is so well communicated by the freeze frames of him with everything being practically frozen
David really let his implant get to his head. It never crossed his mind that someone else would have one. Let alone use it better than he does.
That’s the point of the story the city is plagued with addiction and chrome is one of them
0:15 Since the sandevistan make a person super fast, a single punch should be able to explode his head or broke the neck
I never thought of that tbh but if we talking about technicalities David’s hand would also explode and the floor would also explode from the amount of force he would need to move that fast
@@haywirellamma370 hm, maybe some bone implants will do
So at 5:57 does it mean that David was so much faster than Adam Smasher that by the time he did 3 things Adam was just reacting?
Adam has a Sandevistine too, he just doesn’t use it because it’s below him. Once he realized David is using it he starts to use his too
Its more about efficency i guess. David had limit-breaking expierience, his last effort to fulfill his love's dreams and pushing himself knowing, he isnt going to make it.
For Smasher it was just a bit unusual day at work.
@@TheNorthie Bro I get it and maybe ur right but also don't give Smasher any credit, he sucks.
@@jabe6078 David was just Adam's 9 to 5
David activated his first, so it took a second for Smasher to register this to turn his on.
3:17 he used it to get back to the car as well
True. But it was off screen as it focused on Lucy becoming worried over David following the large detonation Maine caused.
@@manofmercy1500 Very true, but the ones at 5:34 were as well thats why I pointed that one out :)
@@Zalingan Receipts😂🧾
You know, when the crew was all alive, David always managed to grab Becca with his sandy, whether it's for her safety or for as simple as getting through the club. If only David was fast enough to grab her before the "smash", or stomp
He would have if he wasnt anymore fucked up like he was
I like how they sometimes show how it is from Davids Point of view and then how normal people see it
I love the sort of death note Light dynamic they did with david at the end. Showing flashbacks of the early episodes when david was more innocent and wasn't a full cyborg then returning to the weapon david has become not even having limbs anymore being fully integrated into a mech suit. His life could've been so much more if he had just stuck to the sandevistan and maybe a couple other upgrades instead of going full chrome
I really hope if they ever make another cyberpunk game, they make cyberpsychosis an actual game mechanic. Like you can choose to go through the game without any implants and it has an actual effect on the story
“Hmm let me see if I can beat bioshock without using any plasmids”
@Seggs Master but bro, jetstream sam
@Seggs Master Morgan Blackhand be like
@@kimshi2002 Jetstream Sam had a legit Nano-suit enhancing his already nano-machine infused blood. Not AS bad as Raiden, but a normal human would have no chance of using standard reaction speeds to even fight, much less equal, Raiden during their first and second conflicts.
Well kinda, because he had BARELY any cybernetic enhancements. Just enough to keep up with the rest, he let his swordsmanship do the rest
Between 3:26 and 3:27 was missing the scene where Maine blows up everything and David screams while using the Sandevistan.
I absolutely love the sound effects when David uses the Sandevistan. It's so satisfying.
5:50 around here, no one talks about this, the most mind boggling part about this anime, David hits the Sandevistan so hard or maybe all the adrenaline of being shot in the gut hits him mixed with it he splits into 4 afterimage/clone things, Which is insane to me.
Edgerunners broke my heart
Even though i expected the ending it still hit so hard and the songs also stuck in my head too 😭😭
David be like: Sandevistan, Za Warudo
Thank you! I was hoping someone was gonna make a video like this!
5:43 As you can see, they paid homage to the game by not giving cyberskeleton david any walking animations
How many animation frames do we have to put during his Sandaevistan mode?
Animators: YES
You know your going hard when you pull off what would require 3 uses in one go. The end when he splits to slaughter the guards and save Lucy is epic.
I love everything about the Sandy's style. The sound, the colors, and effects look amazing.
this would be amazing to have in real life im just sayying
Honestly most of us wouldn't survive using it for more than few seconds
Remember that if they have this in real life then only the rich could afford it, and this have heavy strand on your body, normally you only suppose to use this about 2 time a day if you don't want your brain to explode
you’d go cyberpyscho 😂
People shouldnt have that kind of power cuz my stuff would go missing from thieving sandevistan users
@@nootnoot3797 sadly it is true
David: "King Crimson!"
Adam Smasher: "Gold Experience Requiem!"
Oh that's Explains why make Sense
I think this is the reason why Rebecca started to fall in love for David because he was always there to help her out.
Rebecca: Don't even think about using your Sandevis-ttttttaaaaaannnnn...
love how the entire power of david was the singular sandevistan, while adam smasher and V from 2077 use it casually like its just another implant
4:04 so basically you can live like Flash
For a while…
In the game the max you can go for is like 30 seconds I think
@@SB-BoiIt’s technically unlimited with the right combo of cyberware
I just love how characters in this can just customize themselves like a pc
@2 minutes and 31 seconds - I never realize Cyber Psychosis started affecting David as early as a few episodes into the series. Damn, such a subtle detail that's easy to miss if you're not paying attention. But it's their.
That wasn't actual cyberpsychosis, that was just David experiencing an XBD where it makes it seem like he's a cyber psycho, hence the entire military and even Max Tac raining down on his ass
That wasn't his psychosis. He was living another psycho in a BD.
@@xyro9115 I think it was an altered BD to make David feel like he did it. Because the way Max Tac shoots him is very similar to how they got Norris.
0:06 David: *"I'M THE TIME LORD NOW."*
During the chase in episode 3, and judging by all the fast moves David made and us seeing him use it, my best guess is that he used his Sandevistan 15 times. At that with the times before and after the chase, David used it 17 times, which is almost 6 times more than what his ripperdoc's recommended limit.
3:28
Epic moment lol love that it showed how fast it is in real time
Not exactly as good, but 2:46 (when he’s zipping around the drone) does a decent job showcasing it as well
love how adam smasher calls it a rudimentary implant
1:27
Watching that reminded me of using Franklin's special on GTA V
By far the best choreography of showing agility levels of characters in anime I have seen
“Show them who you are, What your made of. Your special, member?”
5:49 David having a mental breakdown
BACKGROUND MUSIC:I COULDNT WAIT FOR YOU TO COME AND CLEAR THE CUPBOARD 🗣🗣📢🥰🥰🥰
Man you didn't include the one where he used it before maine died? That was one hell of a moment
3:15
I assume the explosion part was cut out to avoid *completely* spoiling things
Broo the ep6 is the peak of edgerunner
@@gigaturboplusmega But this video shows even the final battle against Adam Smasher, is a lot of spoilers
@@theworldmaker1410 tbh yeah idk what i was thinking
Sandevistan and mantis blade could have made a perfect pair.
I don't get why he put on so much fire power (for long range) and speed enchantment (for close range), while still using sandesvistan. It baffling me.
5:50 when I really want to stay at your house started playing I just couldn't hold it back anymore 😭
From what I remember of 2020, the sandevistan implant didn't make you faster. It improved your Initative by +3, making you react faster than the world around you. You experience the world in slow motion, but you are not moving in super-speed apart from other objects in it. You activated it for bursts of five rounds or so.
There was another model as well, kerenzikov boosters. They were a lot harder on your Humanity Cost since they were always on and you lived permanently in a weird time distortion. Their bonus was +1 or +2. On the plus side, they were always on. Both were neuralware, so you got to have a neuralware system to plug them into. And you couldn't have both kerenzikov and sandevistan, they are doing the same thing but placing the strain slightly differently.
As a comparison, an experienced solo could get a skill that increased their Initiative. Solos with +5 or +7 were easily playable or encountered on the street, even +10 Initiative from pure skill and street experience existed in the world. But when solos face other solos, they value every edge they can get. Winning Initiative often determined entire firefights, you get to be just a fraction of a second faster when rolling into cover or lining up a shot on the other bloke.
You could get an adrenal booster on top of those. +1 Reflexes (and therefore Initiative) a few times a day so not all that often compared to the pure neuralware.
The "Sandevistan." The name supposedly derived from the word "Devastation," and rightfully so. If this existed in real life, so many people could do so many terrifying things in the blink of an eye
Taking in account it's price and problems with installation, it's still less devastating than a supersonic rocket.
Although if the odds come across its real dread is that it can be used in nonmilitary situations, as a weapon of some cyberpsycho.
But still, it's a really rare chrome in cyberpunk universe, according to series. So not so many people.
I'd hate to imagine what war looks like in the world of cyberpunk. With everyone's sandevistan or kerenziko, the battlefield must look almost rehearsed
David: fast af boi
Smasher: imma end this boys whole career
Rebecca: AND DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT USING YOUR SANDEVISTAN
David:
When David said it’s Sandevistan time and he Sandevistaned around truly a Cyberpunk edgerunners moment.
I love how David uses Sandevistan more in a 10 episode anime than Venom Snake speaks in the entire video game.
4:01 David literally stops time
Not quite, you can hear the “sandevi-Staaaaannnnnnnn”very very slow, but not quite a complete time stop
You'd probably break someone's bones just grabbing them from a standstill and moving them this fast. The whiplash.
Wait you’re right
1:01 bro almost has as much autotune in his voice as machine head 💀🙏
Lived how he wanted and went out in a blaze of glory and disobedience david was a true cyberpunk
And now we can actually have his Sandevistan. Its the Militech "Apogee" Sandevistan that slows down to 85% and cam be used in multiple charges
Too bad 2.1 nerfed it so fucking much.
If he minimized his cyberization and took up using a bladed weapon and trained together with his sandevistan, David could have been another Jetstream Sam or a raiden. Or both.
Except he would not be from a lusophone nation.
0:23 So that's how he's supposed to use it. Like for emergencies right ? He was using it too much which drove him crazy ? Pretty dark and coo
He could handle the Sandy it was the rest of his cyberware that was toasting him
bro really carried the anime with a spine attachment
Dio and Diavolo: *So its the Same Stand as The Crimson World*
I love when David brings Lucy to the car and he gives her a blanket, so sweet
What's the name of background song when David helps Lucy for the first time? The one that starts when she says 'showtime'.
Sustain/Decay
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Oh, David... Dear David... My sweet, charming David... Have you so easily forgotten that I bestowed you with part of King Crimson's power? Now's your chance to apply your unique talents.
There was one you missed where after he got expelled he laughed then sanded into his apartmant
Adam's prefire at 6:04 was calculated
I wonder how long he would have lasted if he just kept with his original mod? Maybe do a couple of light body reinforcements such as the bones or muscle, just enough to handle a little more than normal and call it good. Dude probably could've lived for awhile that way.
Could’ve gone for some leg upgrades
i might have to rewatch this cuz its so good and i love the classic anime style
3:34 he probably had lesser model of one of the Sandies probably one that only slows time down to 50% but notice have a caught David off guard and nearly hit him
I like how it's implied that 80% of David's initial usage of the sandy is bailing out Rebecca lmao
By the end David never forgot what his mum wanted for him. But by this point he was no longer David. He was only known as the Sandevistan of Santo Domingo
David 4:33 show me you got this, it's time to cut loose no holding back... show em who you are..! what your special member!
If David minimized his other implants and mastered the versatility of the sandy he could have lived way longer
Oh definitely the only reason he lost to smasher imo is his use of other implants rather than just being a one trick sandevistan pony
Eurosolos disdain chrome. A sandevistan in 2020 gives some punk +3 Initiative while a meat solo with the right skills has +10.
Missed the most iconic one which is where he came back to lucy with Maine's severed arm. That's the moment he start degrading mentally. Great video man
my favorite bit is when we get to see the real time after, like you usually only get one or the other. its like the show goes "and thats what happened, got it? good, now, here it is again"