Writing anything good about Cyberpunk 2077 can feel a little like defending the indefensible. This game launched as a disaster on last-gen consoles, got pulled from sale, missed some features that were advertised during pre-launch rounds of marketing (do not get me started on this game’s appalling marketing), frequently swerved across the road from mature storytelling to an extremely childish piece of work, and without containing a warning.
It is also, honestly, quite a good game. And those two things can be true at once! This is the nature of big budget video games and Cyberpunk 2077 is, if anything, an exercise in understanding that. Playing around with the latest “next-gen” patch only brings it into sharper focus.
If you haven’t read the patch notes – of which there are many – there are a lot of things it fixes, tweaks and adds. You can have multiple apartments now. You can filter those godforsaken phone calls (I swear, on a tight review deadline, that thing almost put me over the edge). You can change your hair.