It's been a nice adventure, full of ups and downs as far as my experience with this game is concerned, but after a long road, we finally reached the end. To recap a bit; Our goal is to infiltrate Mikoshi, a secret and extremely valuable database of the Arasaka corporation. To achieve this we will have the help of Panam and his entire nomadic family.
The plan will be to take control of an Arasaka excavation plant and use its drill to dig a tunnel and access the central base, where there is an access point to Mikoshi. We will set off with all the nomads, we will control a kind of technological tank that I already talked about in previous chapters. Curious fact: It was in this tank that we had relations with Panam the first time.
When we arrive at the excavation, the combat will begin. We will encounter dozens of Arasaka soldiers who will try to stop us. Something I have not mentioned is that, for this mission I decided to make a change. I modified my body and removed all the smart hacks to integrate an upgrade that allows me to slow down time in combat. The result is pretty cool.
When we manage to defeat all the soldiers in the plant, we will access the excavator controls and start digging straight down until we reach an entrance to the main Arasaka plant. We will use this entrance to stealthily infiltrate the facility.
We will see that the facilities are full of soldiers, as expected. However, when we manage to reach the indicated point, we will connect a USB that will give Alt, the AI, access to the Arasaka system. When we do this we will see how Alt will control everything and everyone in the facilities, making the enemies fall dead and controlling the drones so that they kill each other.
Alt will lead us to the access point to Mikoshi. But just as we are about to enter, we will see Adam Smasher appear out of nowhere, the one who in the past was the cause of Jhonny's death. As Smasher is not connected to the system of this facility, Alt's abilities will have no effect on him. Sadly Smasher will end up killing Simon, the leader of Panam's nomadic family. We will see how he crushes his head with his foot.
Here the combat against Smasher will begin, who will have a mixture of movements that go from launching rockets to approaching us to hit us or making powerful jumps that will make us lose our balance. At a certain point in the combat Smasher will summon soldiers to complicate things even more. The combat was hard, maybe because I'm playing on hard, but it's the first time a boss kills me. Anyway, at the second attempt I managed to defeat him. We will leave him motionless in the middle of the room and we will tell him the truth about Jhonny, we will tell him that that night in 2023 Jhonny didn't die at all and that he is now part of us. Then we'll blow his head off.
Smasher was the last obstacle in our way, with the dead now we can access the server room, where we can connect to Mikoshi. We will enter the room and walk slowly towards the access point, we will see how we have almost no time left. When we arrive at the indicated point we will connect directly to the server.
When we connect we will have a kind of hallucination. We will see Jackie sitting in that place that Misty showed us. We will try to talk to him, but being a simple illusion or representation of our memories, we will see that he speaks strangely. Finally we will end up saying goodbye to him, telling him that we will see him on the other side.
As we say goodbye to Jackie we will move on to be in cyberspace once again. We will hear Alt talking in the background and walk in a straight line towards a light. In the center of this light will be Jhonny, we will tap him on the shoulder with a happy tone and tell him that we have made it, however, he will tell us that there is still a decision to be made.
Very sadly, things will not be as good as we thought. Alt will tell us that he has already separated our consciousness, however, our human body is not made to support what it would mean to eradicate Jhonny's presence from our brain and introduce ours in solitary, so we will have 2 options: Return to our body and expose it to this process, which would give us a hope of 6 months of life at most or, give our body to Jhonny and leave with Alt to the black wall, a place beyond cyberspace. Depending on which decision we make, we will get one ending or another.
Although it is only 6 months of life, I decided to return to my human body, I felt it was the right decision, I did not want to abandon Panam after all the sacrifice she and her nomadic family made for me. When we make this decision we will see how we begin to disappear from cyberspace, but just before leaving, Jhonny will tap us on the shoulder and smiling will tell us: "Goodbye V, never stop fighting".
Here there will be a jump in time, we do not know how much time has passed since that day, but we will see that we have made the decision to leave Night City and live with the nomadic family of Panam, of which we are also part. We will take a last look at the city, say goodbye to it and leave.
The game will end with us crossing the Night City border with Panam. A bittersweet ending in my opinion, because we know that this new life won't last long because we are destined to die. But well, even though the ending left me a bit depressed, since I genuinely thought we would get some salvation, I really enjoyed this whole adventure and I'm glad I shared it here.
All images/gifs shown in this publication have been taken and created by me
Ha sido una bonita aventura, llena de altos y bajos en lo que respecta a mi experiencia con este juego, pero luego de un largo camino, finalmente llegamos al final. Para recapitular un poco; Nuestro objetivo es infiltrarnos en Mikoshi, una base de datos secreta y extremadamente valiosa de la corporación Arasaka. Para lograr esto contaremos con la ayuda de Panam y toda su familia nómada.
El plan consistirá en tomar el control de una planta de excavación de Arasaka y usar su taladradora para cavar un túnel y acceder a la base central, donde se encuentra un punto de acceso hacia Mikoshi. Nos pondremos en marcha con todos los nómadas, nosotros controlaremos una especie de tanque tecnológico del que ya hablé en capítulos anteriores. Dato curioso: En este tanque fue donde tuvimos relaciones con Panam la primera vez.
Al llegar a la excavación comenzará el combate. Nos encontraremos con decenas de soldados de Arasaka que intentarán frenarnos. Algo que no he mencionado es que, para esta misión decidí hacerme un cambio. Modifiqué mi cuerpo y eliminé todos los hackeos inteligentes para integrarme una mejora que me permite ralentizar el tiempo en combate. El resultado es bastante genial.
Cuando logremos derrotar a todos los soldados de la planta, accederemos a los controles de la excavadora y comenzaremos a excavar en línea recta hacia abajo hasta llegar a una entrada de la planta principal de Arasaka. Usaremos esta entrada para infiltrarnos sigilosamente en las instalaciones.
Veremos que las instalaciones están llenas de soldados, como era de esperarse. Sin embargo, cuando logremos llegar al punto indicado, conectaremos un USB que le dará acceso a Alt, la IA, al sistema de Arasaka. Al hacer esto veremos como Alt pasa a controlar todo y a todos en las instalaciones, haciendo que los enemigos caigan muertos y controlando a los drones para que se maten entre ellos.
Alt nos facilitará el camino hacia el punto de acceso a Mikoshi. Pero justo cuando estamos a punto de entrar, veremos como de la nada aparece Adam Smasher, ese que en el pasado fue el causante de la muerte de Jhonny. Como Smasher no está conectado al sistema de estas instalaciones, las habilidades de Alt no tendrán efecto en él. Tristemente Smasher terminará matando a Simon, el líder de la familia nómada de Panam. Veremos cómo le aplasta la cabeza con su pie.
Aquí comenzará el combate contra Smasher, que tendrá una mezcla de movimientos que van desde lanzarnos cohetes hasta acercarse a golpearnos o dar saltos poderosos que nos harán perder el equilibrio. En un determinado punto del combate Smasher invocará soldados para complicarnos más las cosas. El combate fue duro, quizás porque estoy jugando en dificil, pero es la primera vez que un jefe me mata. Sea como sea, al segundo intento logré vencerlo. Lo dejaremos inmóvil en mitad de la sala y le contaremos la verdad sobre Jhonny, le diremos que aquella noche del 2023 Jhonny no murió del todo y que ahora forma parte de nosotros. Luego le volaremos la cabeza.
Smasher era el último obstáculo en nuestro camino, con el muerto ahora podemos acceder a la sala de servidores, donde podremos conectarnos a Mikoshi. Entraremos a la sala y caminaremos lentamente hacia el punto de acceso, veremos como ya casi no nos queda tiempo. Al llegar al punto indicado nos conectaremos directamente al servidor.
Al conectarnos tendremos una especie de alucinación. Veremos a Jackie sentado en aquel lugar que nos mostró Misty. Intentaremos hablar con él, pero al ser una simple ilusión o representación de nuestros recuerdos, veremos que habla de forma extraña. Finalmente terminaremos despidiéndonos de él, diciéndole que lo veremos del otro lado.
Al despedirnos de Jackie pasaremos a estar en el ciber espacio una vez más. Escucharemos a Alt hablar de fondo y caminaremos en línea recta hacia una luz. En el centro de esta luz estará Jhonny, le tocaremos el hombro con un tono de felicidad y le diremos que lo hemos logrado, sin embargo, el nos dirá que aún queda una decisión por tomar.
Muy tristemente, las cosas no estarán tan bien como creíamos. Alt nos dirá que ya separó nuestras conciencias, sin embargo, nuestro cuerpo humano no está hecho para soportar lo que significaría erradicar la presencia de Jhonny de nuestro cerebro e introducir la nuestra en solitaria, por lo que pasaremos a tener 2 opciones: Volver a nuestro cuerpo y exponerlo a dicho proceso, lo que nos daría una esperanza de 6 meses de vida como máximo o, cederle nuestro cuerpo a Jhonny y marcharnos con Alt al muro negro, un lugar más allá del ciber espacio. Dependiendo de que decisión tomemos, obtendremos un final u otro.
Aunque sean solo 6 meses de vida, decidí volver a mi cuerpo humano, sentí que era la decisión correcta, no quería abandonar a Panam despues de todo el sacrificio que hizo ella y su familia nómada por mí. Al tomar esta decisión veremos como comenzamos a desaparecer del ciber espacio, pero justo antes de marcharnos, Jhonny nos tocará el hombro y sonriendo nos dirá: “Adiós V, nunca dejes de luchar”.
Aquí habrá un salto en el tiempo, no sabemos cuanto a pasado desde aquel día, pero veremos que hemos tomado la decisión de abandonar Night City y vivir con la familia nómada de Panam, de la cual también formamos parte. Le daremos una ultima mirada a la ciudad, nos despediremos de ella y nos marcharemos.
El juego acabará con nosotros, cruzando la frontera de Night City junto a Panam. Un final agridulce en mi opinión, porque sabemos que esta nueva vida no durará mucho porque estamos destinados a morir. Pero bueno, a pesar de que el final me dejó un poco deprimido, ya que genuinamente pensaba que obtendríamos alguna salvación, disfruté mucho de toda esta aventura y me alegra haberla compartido acá.
The detailed recap makes it clear how much effort and emotional weight went into this final mission. Thanks for sharing such a heartfelt reflection on your journey.
I've been following Cyberpunk for a long time, from the beginning and its glaring mistakes to its improved evolution along with its expansions. I didn't dare to buy it because of the PC I had before, now that I can give it everything to the maximum, I'm too eager to buy Cyberpunk on a good offer with the other add-ons I can! It looks simply brutal.
It is very good and recommended. And although it's not perfect it's certainly a great game today and worth giving it a try. I've been playing the expansion after finishing the game and, although I won't talk about it, I can tell you that I think it's an absolute marvel what they did.
Thanks for clarify me this, I'm really interesting in buy cyberpunk in a good offer on steam. Yes, i see is one of the good games of this times for sure!
Jaja ese Jhonny tiene algo de parentesco al John Wick
Woooow this post is amazing!!!
10/10
Smasher is literally the smasher of heads? That poor guy got crushed. Love the graphics and animations this game have.
Yes, that moment disturbed me but because I didn't expect that to happen or that it would be so graphic haha.
Fantastic content! 🌟
Sweet, it has been a facinating journey and i cant wait to see the ending of this game.
I love the Smasher fight. This was one of the best games I've ever played.
Good job mate
Sadly all endings are sad, night city is so consumes people and does not allow them to have a happy ending at least with what is left of life you will do what you want and hopefully enjoy every minute until the end. Excellent adventure, battles, story and way of showing all this in your posts, I really admire you. Have a good year
Es un buen final el morir siendo tú mismo, aun cuando sea por solo unos meses, ha sido una buena aventura en este juego.