When you’ve spent any time on the web this previous weekend, whether or not Reddit or Twitter or YouTube, you’ve undoubtedly seen Cyberpunk 2077 everywhere in the timeline once more—and for good motive. With the latest debut of Studio Set off’s wonderful anime adaptation, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, followers the web over have flocked back to CDPR’s Night City in the literal millions to walk the neon streets and shoot some goons. And a shocking quantity are gunning for one asshole specifically.
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Huge spoilers for Edgerunners observe
Set a couple of 12 months earlier than Cyberpunk 2077, Edgerunners follows a reckless but gifted road child named David “Dee” Martinez who finds himself in possession of some super-advanced army tech after shedding every thing in a drive-by taking pictures. To outlive the tough streets of Night time Metropolis, David turns into an edgerunner, a black-market mercenary for rent. Whereas he makes strong pals alongside the best way to fame and fortune within the 10-episode sequence, David’s journey can also be plagued by blood and bullets. Some homies make it out alive. Others get crushed below the load of Adam Smasher, an Arasaka worker and private bodyguard to one in every of Cyberpunk 2077‘s major villains. Adam Smasher can also be the flamboyant of the web for killing a beloved character.
Hinted at in episode seven (“Stronger”) and launched as Edgerunners’ large dangerous by episode 10 (“My Moon My Man”), Adam Smasher is the principle throughline connecting the anime and sport. And followers completely hate his guts. Within the anime’s finale, Smasher drops his big-ass physique on high of greatest woman—and fan fave—Rebecca throughout a young second between the gang. Rebecca is killed, her physique bloodied and mangled. I suppose he lives as much as his final title, huh? Effectively, the web needs to smash him too, particularly since he additionally killed David on the finish of Edgerunners.
With the revelation that Adam Smasher is a callous dick who, like Rebecca stated earlier than getting flattened within the anime, would interrupt of us “having a second” by slaughtering them, Cyberpunk 2077 followers couldn’t let that ruthlessness slide. So, everywhere in the web are memes of individuals plotting their revenge. Redditor AlterRecords posted a picture of Doomguy warding off demons in hell, with a caption plainly asking “the place the fuck is Adam Smasher.” Twitter person DeadByRainbows shared a short clip of Jujutsu Kaisen’s Satoru Gojo reshaping Miguel’s face together with his fists, intimating that Smasher’s subsequent in line. YouTuber Pink Smasher’s meme video imagines Christian Bale’s American Psycho character Patrick Bateman in search of, killing, and in the end teabagging the augmented heavy. It’s what he deserves.
Even CDPR and Studio Set off are encouraging of us to enact their revenge. After the sport’s official Twitter posted a couple of sale (that runs on PlayStation till September 28), the anime’s official Twitter account retweeted it, saying Adam Smasher is yours for the killing for those who personal the sport. And that’s true. You encounter him throughout Cyberpunk 2077‘s prologue, after he calls your V a “lower of fuckable meat.” (Ew.) Whilst you have to cheat to kill him that early, you get an opportunity to place a legit bullet in his mecha-skull towards the sport’s last act. That struggle isn’t as wonderful as David’s bout with the cybernetic bodyguard, however hey! Revenge all the time tastes candy.
Now that Edgerunners is streaming on Netflix, Cyberpunk 2077 is seeing a renewed lease on life. Gamers are returning to Night time Metropolis in droves, with roughly 100,000 people taking part in at any given time. On the time of this writing, for instance, SteamCharts information suggests some 105,439 gamers are driving round Night time Metropolis, some seemingly nursing a recent vendetta. I do know I’ve been.
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Cyberpunk 2077 could also be in higher form now that CDPR has launched its newest replace. Dubbed Patch 1.6, the Edgerunners replace provides new side-quests, extra clothes choices, gear from Edgerunners, and copious fixes to stabilize efficiency. It’s a welcome patch, one which primes the sport for when its solely deliberate growth, Phantom Liberty, drops someday subsequent 12 months.
