"But, why is V never suffers from cyberpsychosis?" Me, seeing all the corpses i left behind: "Fool, IT WAS US. We, the players, are his cyberpsychosis"
@@monkeywheel5522 Cyberpsychosis is a one way street. There's even a questline to try and find a cure in the game, but it ends up going nowhere. If V was a psycho the only quest would be "kill everyone you see." More likely, the combination of a second neural network to share the load + most chrome just being standard stuff means V is just tough enough to use what he gets
I love the poetry in this ending. The whole show David runs himself ragged chasing dreams for the people he loves. In the end he does the impossible by slipping in and out of cyberpsychosis, he literally runs on the edge
I remember seeing him magnetize all the guns to himself and shoot them and realized he became the monster made out of a bunch of guns that he kept seeing when he shot those people in the arasaka lab.
The way they did my boy in, when he was already struggling with cyberpsychosis and they force him into a situation where where he has to further mutilate himself breaks my heart.
I'm sure Johnny and Jackie aren't the only guys at The Afterlife that have drinks named after them. Life of a merc in Night City is hard. Even the mightiest are capable of failure. It wasn't for lack of trying though.
I think having David have the same red warning area as MaxTac was a nice touch, the one group of people that never failed to kill now on par with David
The moment David put on those mech parts on him the more he just reminded me of the Warhammer40k dreadnought. It just gets better, that he's literally a dead man/corpse on borrowed time the moment he put those on. Even in death he still serves.
Makes me think, if David's able to take that much cyberware strain, if he'd be a shoe in for a Titan Princep. Admech would grease themselves over that thought
@@Gwilherm that's why episode 6 is my favorite it highlights the REAL dangers of the edgerunning lifestyle. Its not getting shot at cause at least you die human, its when you live too long and you die a monster
@@almalone3282 what bothers me is that why does everyone think that they will be special and not go psycho if they keep chroming but its said constantly what will happen but they keep ignoring it.
"The power it generates in the short term...is unlike anything devised on this side of sanity." As dark as the implications in this scene are, what a line.
Oh yeah, like cyberpunk gets real dark when you see some of the implications. Like for 1, the events of edgerunners take place about a year before we start playing the game, meaning that rig David's using is not only still out there but probably back in the hands of arasaka, and now they have a feild test for what it can do because of David's actions. Other dark things include the Black Wall, as a single AI obtained from beyond it can be used to create an extremely powerful gun or the most powerful program, and to even get the AI in the first place is a stealth section, because the robot it's taken over absolutely will kill you and you can't fight back, it's also stated that the only reason AI like that one haven't destroyed everything yet is because the world is too primitive for them to be able to cone through.
The way Kiwi coldly says that line while David is raining down havoc and annihilation, like some sort of god of destruction ... I got goosebumps. Still do. Something about the combination of dialogue, music, and on-screen action - it's like we're there with Rebecca, Falco and Kiwi - just in complete awe.
air superiority, eliminating enemy "eyes", boxing them in, eradicating means of retreat/cover/supply/defense, eliminating command structure, mop up. all in seconds. everyone has a very specific job and timing. like a symphony. the moment someone effs up, the other side wipes em out. the time to reposition or improvise is gone. it probably goes closer to a duel really, unless both "lose internet" and have to carpet bomb like we do today.
The game suggests that cyberpyschosis was a myth created by the corporations, and it's just people going normal psychosis due to how much horror and suffering goes on in NightCity.
@@gamemaster1608 Also V has a much shorter timespan where they get any Cyberware, meaning if they would ever get Cyberpsychosis we might not see it, since they would die earlier either way
Its really well crafted. There isnt really a doubt about wether or not david can take on militech with the exoskeleton so the drama comes from rebeca's and falco's reaction to what this means intercut with an inhuman david
Captain here: So the reason V, was able to chrome out so excessively and not fall victim to Cyberpsyhosis like our boy David, was due to Relic device, for the exact same reason it was killing them. Due to the Relic re-writing parts of the brain it viewed as problematic, it never allowed a chance for the Cyberpsyhosis to set in. So at the cost of their life-span, V was granted immunity to the problems and issues that lead to the symptoms of Cyberpsyhosis. Edit: This really blew up. Thanks for everyone's input
It's why when Alt said that his body wasn't his anymore due to JS taking over, V was doomed to die in 6 months, didn't matter on the Psuedo or Blockers were taken.
this scene made me sad but also happy for david. the whole show he was trying to help others achieve their dream, even died for it.. but THIS was his dream. he wanted to be an edgerunner and find a family and experience love. he was able to do all those things and ultimately died a legend. that final smile on his face before he is killed showed a man who truly was at peace with himself. he wasnt on the edge at all like maine was when he snapped. if you look closely at the closing montage of him walking through night city alone, he walks and stops right in the middle. perfectly centered.
@@tc105 Yeah, people are spoiled by all the popular shounen anime. They think the character has to turn into a God at the end, otherwise they're a trash character. Legends exist for a reason; I'm glad Edgerunners drove that point home. It gives the struggle so much more meaning, and the stakes are so much higher when your characters are fighting while outclassed.
I wonder if v having the construct of silver hand allowed v’s body to take implants without the threat cyberphycosis even though johnny is killing v. Because late game v can have all the implants similar to David and Adam smasher’s but never deals with psychosis
@@user-sj5pt4tm4r I don’t think he did or he wouldn’t have saved Lucy and valued love I meant in the sense she wanted him to make something of himself the right way and live a good life, but once she passed he had no choice no one was going to pay for school let alone bills he had to turn to the street lifestyle
Yeah, David destroyed her mother's dreams for him in the worst way possible, not to mention he lost himself so much he failed to realize he "reaching the top of Arasaka" was nothing like what his mother wanted for him.
I am still sad. I finished it yesterday. I can't bring myself to re-watch or listen to the song other wise I will cry and get depressed again. Also gimme the pfp sauce.
Yeah... there are no happy endings in Night City, so I wasn't expecting one. The bittersweet shit mess we ended up with was the best you could hope for, and my soul aches nonetheless. Almost didn't finish the series because on some level if I don't see the bad shit go down I can pretend everyone had a happy ending, but that's silly... *sigh*
Even funnier? This man was like 18 ah yes let me give the 18 year old boy the ability to move at basically the speed of light and overpowered magnets surely this will end up exactly how I planned! 20 seconds Later: *launching cars into the air like it’s an average Tuesday*
From a gameplay stand point, I consider this impossible. Like changing your entire player model to a massive cyborg is a lil crazy. But it certainly would be cool.
@@Amoogus I have some experience with RED engine. I thought it was impossible for them to make working police AI and vehicle combat, but they did that. I can’t believe they’re actually going to fix this game. It only took 3 years, but it’s totally worth playing now
Everyone saying V was stronger because they chromed out with no psychosis, but they also had Relic fixing the "damaged" parts of their brain constantly. The moment part of their mind starts to slip, it's replaced. David managed to do everything he did without anything like that. He's just that good.
@@unfortunatecircumstances8870 David only lost because he wasn't prepared, they even say that exo skeleton was originally for Adam Smasher, not david. Smasher had better gear/cyberware and more experience, but both had the same potential, the story would be different if the anime would've been longer.
@@distortion1167 David would need years of experience and skill to match Smasher. He was a kid. Smasher is a war veteran. The only advantage David has is his cyber skeleton, which Adam made short work of. V is just plainly a better edgerunner.
@@unfortunatecircumstances8870 True but I wouldnt say that the cyber skeleton was weak in any way. The cyberpyschosis really set him back and the fight between David and smasher made zero sense. Smasher should have atleast taken a lot of damage but they legit just showed him get antigraved for one second and then he rips david apart. The way he destroyed millitech -- david should have been more than a match for smasher.
Interesting how Cyberpunk's "special people" keep getting better and more resilent each time someone new enters the ring. Wayland, Silverhand, Smasher, Blackhand, ROUGE, Martinez and Victor/Valerie. Each one of these people become stronger and stronger with each iteration. Martinez was the "special one" before the legend herself entered the round. V. The more who sacrifice, the closer the new kids get to riding that edge of total fucking anarchy. Night City will burn one day, without a doubt.
Well first, there's the issue that cyberware, software, and ability to make the 1.0 meat adapt is being refined over time. Given it a couple of decades, and even this might not make you Cyber Psycho after days worth of battle time. Night City won't be the only ashen ruins if this trend continues.
I think why David went fully cyberpsycho was every time he killed someone I noticed he slowed time down either by instinct or to get the kill so he really takes it all in mentally..plus his mom passing early on
I mean the Sandivistan *did* kick in the nanosecond he saw Pilar get his chin blown out the top of his skull. Seeing that happen in slo-mo would fuck anyone up.
No, it's just because he's less human and using the stuff makes his body & mind react negatively more than just having it on him, that's all Cyberpsyhosis is.
I find it silly though how the operator's torso there has zero armor around it, also those troopers are worefull underarmed to begin with carrying SMGs shooting pistol ammo rather than something firing rifle rounds.
V had Relic making him immune to cyberpsychosis(so he's just as OP as Adam Jensen in Deus Ex setting, being completely immune to drawbacks of implants), meanwhile Smasher was a psycho BEFORE he was rebuild. In his case it's like pumping Joker full of Venom, he won't be aggressive because of Venom, he'd be aggressive because he's the Joker. And V likely will face full consequences in new DLC since Relic is no longer shielding them...
Mike Pondsmith said that cyberpsychosis isn't caused by cybernetics. People who under go cyberpsychosis already had underlying metal issues, the cybernetics just accelerate and amplify them to ridiculous extents hence the name "cyberpsychosis"
This whole scene and then Adam Smasher's beatdown of David just makes the disparity between the anime and the video game fight against Adam even more absurd.
David was definitely "special"...but he wasn't immortal. He had extremely high tolerance for cyberware but taking on all of Maine's implants was probably his limit, he added Sandy to that+more and finally capped it with the Cyber Armor. If he had been a bit more steady and cautious I feel like he would have been able to live longer and eventually reached or even exceeded Smasher's level....but he is an edgerunner for a reason I guess.
Literalmente por su edad hizo demasiado si tan solo no se hubiese empeñado tanto en colocarse demasiados implantes hasta seguro hubiese logrado un mejor nivel superando a smasher
Nah smasher is the special one because he'd had no humanity to lose. The rpg makes that clear he could handle implants because his mindset was already unhinged.
@@zachburskey8868 I don't think that makes him special since he was already deranged that puts him below normal people since he was crazy even with 0 implants. Smasher gave David an offer to join him if David accepted he would have been just like Smasher so personally don't think Smasher was that special. What made David special was he could keep his humanity even with so much cyber ware which obv Smasher can't do.
@@roslolian11 thing is he had no mercy or sympathy but wasn't deranged, he was perfectly "sane", basically he had control over his own decisions and didn't require any immuno suppresants to handle cyberware, cyberpsychosis is much worse than smasher's condition, because it makes you loose control of yourself, when "YOURSELF" IS the crazy one, you're immune tothat and can power up as much as you need with 0 worry for cyberpsychosis. The thing where u say david could keep his humanity, smasher never had one to loose in the first place, so he didn't really loose it. when normal people loose their humanity, they end up mutilating themselve's an others with no aim, smasher instead never had that problem, he could just do what he wants
David’s basically a miniaturized version of the Gundam Barbatos from Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans with all that tech! He’s as savage as Mikazuki when he’s in the Barbatos’s cockpit. A wolf from Hell itself!
I remember one of the explanations for cyberpsychosis is due to the sheer power one gains from excessive modification. See, a cybernetic arm that's a 1-to-1 for a human arm with no frills is no problem. It's just replacing a lost part. But as you go above that, it starts to have a psychological impact. You start losing your human perspective the further above human capabilities you go. Why care anything about slow, squishy, weak little humans when you can kill them by the dozens in a heartbeat?
Near as I can tell its basically the same thing that happens to people who get into car crashes and get brain damage that causes them to see their limbs as alien. Body sometimes can't cope with the new parts or 'weird' parts, even if it looks exactly like the original, people with prosthetics that are made to look like the original go into mental breakdowns all the time. Power or no, imagine what would happen to people if they took on a bunch of these extreme modifications seen in cyberpunk where you barely look human? Beyond that all examples of cyberpsychosis are from people who were either forced through excessive body modding, were mentally ill before hand, or experienced a extreme amount of stress in a short time. Cyberpsychosis is basically a cyberpunk word for someone having a mental breakdown while having deadly weapons strapped to them.
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me, I craved the strength and sanctity of steel" - adeptus mechanicus, warhammer 40k
Cyberpsychos stems from one’s soul. V died and so his soul left him before he reanimated and he become an empty vessel which is why he can augment without becoming a psycho
He is special, he was able to handle that THING without immediately succumbing to cyberpsychosis. The problem is that he wasn't as special as he thought, In short, he fought Adam smasher who was even more special than David. In the end though he was able to make lucy achieve her dream of going and living on the moon, so his life wasn't in vain and he ended up having a better, more meaningful impact than anyone else in the entire series.
"The power it generates in the short term, is unlike anything devised in this side of sanity" Holy shit. That line. That fucking line is one of the best in the anime
Reminds me of RoboCain, those armored cyborgs from Predator: Concrete Jungle, Dreadnoughts from W40K, District 9's "prawn" exo-skeleton, and a whole lot more... Jeez, he really put the "post" in post-human.
Man you can hear the distress in Rebecca's voice. The person she truly considered a friend and one she was secretly in love with was slowly deteriorating in front of her.
The interesting thing about cyberpsychosis: the way it works on tabletop, is it's risk is inversely related to your characters level of humanity. The lower your humanity score is, the less chrome your body can handle. So a person with already sociopathic tendencies can only take a few augs before they risk going psycho, and those would hardly amount to more than a miniboss-level threat. While someone like Mister Rogers could have an entire armory's worth of chrome installed and get turned into a walking Apocalypse.
@@bitchesandbastards Nah; he was a special case. Smasher was the solution for GM's with a problem, that being their players getting too murder hobo-y. He was the in-game equivalent of "fuck around and find out."
@@chesterstevens8870 No you're just talking complete nonsense. The opposite of what you said is true - The more sociopathic you are the less likely you are to go cyberpsycho.
If David was this dangerous at this level, he would've been a major menace if he lived on and became consumed by the cyberpsychosis. Even Adam had to acknowledge his talent. The most vile monsters are not the ones in front of us but inside of us.
The cyberpsycosis is apparently either controllable or focusable, even in game some characters are reformatted in some way, I know the chick from the first trailers is now a max tac member who still loves the sight of blood... Would make sense that the most deadly enforcers would be salvaged from them.
Within the lore of the games and series: Cyberpsychosis can be treated with appropriate medical care, but that only delays the progression. The only cure is to remove the implants and replace them with more basic ones that are closer to natural in function, but this is something few people are willing to do - it'll usually mean giving up their successful career at the very least. Occasionally someone is apprehended alive after going on a full-on rampage and will receive involuntary downgrade and treatment, which allows for a partial recovery - they'll still have PTSD and they won't ever be able to use enhancements again, but they can recover most of their sanity. Given how violent many careers in the cyberpunk setting are though, there's always that temptation to get just a little bit more enhancement, even when the signs of a break are getting harder to dismiss. Surely just one more implant can't hurt, right? Just need to be a little faster, a little tougher. One more.
it must be truly terrifying to see a 7 ton mechanized person of mass destruction move at ungodly speeds and wipe out an entire convoy of people in less than 3 minutes
You know how biblical angels are discribed as multi eyed multi winged monstrosities that can drive a man mad just by looking at them this is what i immagine a cyberpunk angel looks like
He wasn't **quite** pshyco in this scene. He was riding the line. It's when they get into NC primary when he really loses it. And the only anime to have a fight this badass that made me sad as fuck
I figure that V had two things working in his favor that allowed him to chrome up so much. He had the relic itself, something overwriting parts of his brain and allowing him to get an abnormal mind. The relic overwriting him probably saw the cyberpsychosis as a difference between Johnny's head, meaning it was clearing out the gunk AS V got it. Second, Johnny himself was also likely helping take on the mental load from the cyberware, making it harder for V to go psycho. Both combined meant that V could essentially get to 100% cyborg and he'd still be sane. ***Looking at the trail of bodies though, just put "Sane" in huge quotations.***
Cyberpsychosis is portrayed differently in the game and anime. In anime it feels like inevitability of augmentation. However in the game very few actually had it. There were the Maelstroms that were straight up full borgs and most of them were fine. Relatively speaking
The thing about Maelstrom is they are like Adam Smasher, they have cyberpsychosis but they are already so far gone from humanity that they can function normally.
You all can say that Vincent aka V was a prodigy of Night City,but David was the one who surpassed his own mental and physical limits,destroying a whole platoon of Militech weaponry whilst getting decimated by rockets and Basilisks. No matter the fact that he needed to technically jug down loads of immunosuppressants,he STILL made it out alive.
I think people for get the entire show happen within a year. David went from broke Arasaka dropout with no parents to single handily taking on the whole militia that Smasher was needed to take him out, in a year. And he’s only 18.
They did David so dirty. He mutilated himself. He sacrificed himself. In the name if love. He became the strongest cyborg ever. He kept enough sanity not to kill his friends. And when he was half dead, faced Adam Smasher. He died a Legend. Poor dude. It was so sad.
I wonder what would’ve happened if David wasn’t lucid? Like he’d be aware of everything I think even maybe by a small fraction of a chance he could defeat Adam.
Never forget cyber punk has no real villian. The world is the bad guy, Davids story is about how self destructive living for someone or something other then yourself can be. In the end his dream for someone else was just that, HIS dream. No one really forced David too keep going but himself. Infact your favorite characters almost definitely begged him to stop.
@@Pinkus_ I think smasher's chrome was technically less powerful and sophisticated than David's exoskeleton. But Smasher had more experience using is implants, and frankly was used to fighting people closer to his league. David's early kills boiled down to a lot of surprise or the Sandivistan. By the time he was killing higher level goons, he had far more cyberwar than them, which meant they were physically below his weight class. Smasher though, was borged out sure, but he didn't necessarily have the crushing advantage David did over his contemporaries due to the limits of the technology of his time. This means that Smasher is not only highly cyberized but he was actually SKILLED in his use of cyberware. It's why smasher won handily despite supposedly using older hardware. It's also (I like to think) why V won their fight with Smasher.
After playing the game and doing the Panam questline and using the Basilisk to easily shred through dozens if not hundreds of enemies and raiders with still being able to use the basilisk. Seeing David dismantle entire militech squads and tear through trucks and cars and multiple basilisks in just a few minutes was crazy.
He just kinda replaced all his blood with immunosuppressants while in the cyberskeleton. This fight was total grimdark, like a combo of Warhammer 40K and the machine war segments from Animatrix
It’s secret tech wasn’t it. Definitely not accessible to civilians. Militech was even going on with the spying shit just to get the skeleton. I do agree how people who came from night city and chromed up work on the outside world. Maybe it was touched on on the game but haven’t played it.
Or, they was a cyberpsycho when you take into account the body count V has, when they don't actually have to live the life they're living. In the lore, most cyberpsychos aren't actually going on rampages and becoming incoherent, they mostly function in the setting of Cyberpunk they're just one bad day away from ending up on MaxTechs hitlist.
I like how in the anime David had the sandevistan, the arm cannon and the super jump cyberwares but that was already enough enough to begin pushing him towards psychosis but that's nothing compared to the ludicrious amount of cyberware most players shove into their V's.
A sandevistan was a fairly standard thing in 2020. It gave you +3 Initiative. Unlike kerenzikov boosters who were always on, sandevistan are activated in bursts. They are easier on your Humanity Cost than permanently watching the world in slow motion. A bare-bones cyberarm is dehumanizing and becomes more so when you pack it with stuff. People can pack small holdout pistols in them. It's not a powerful gun, but it's a gun you can pop out when necessary. Some people hide microgrenades in their toes or fingers. Two barebones cyberlegs work the same way, the more dehumanizing stuff you fit in them the more HC you get. I can't recall what assisted jump cost you. You could get dang rollerskate feet instead.
+3 Initiative from a sandevistan isn't as huge as it sounds. An experienced solo probably has +5 or +7 just from their experience and skill. No cybernetics can beat instinct and skill. But when solos compare against other solos, every edge they can get counts. +3 can mean you're a tenth of a second faster to pull the trigger in a standoff. Eurosolos scoff at american hardware fixation. They are all about skill, often broad skillsets no one expects a solo to have.
"But, why is V never suffers from cyberpsychosis?"
Me, seeing all the corpses i left behind: "Fool, IT WAS US. We, the players, are his cyberpsychosis"
This is now my religion
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This is genuinely one of my favorite theories
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@@monkeywheel5522 Cyberpsychosis is a one way street. There's even a questline to try and find a cure in the game, but it ends up going nowhere. If V was a psycho the only quest would be "kill everyone you see." More likely, the combination of a second neural network to share the load + most chrome just being standard stuff means V is just tough enough to use what he gets
I love the poetry in this ending. The whole show David runs himself ragged chasing dreams for the people he loves. In the end he does the impossible by slipping in and out of cyberpsychosis, he literally runs on the edge
He's a Cyberpunk Edgerunner
A true Edgerunner
@@crisgetcrucified6972 DAVID IT’S YOU, YOU’RE THE CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS!
@@The_Funniest_Cut 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@The_Funniest_CutSure if that lets you sleep at night!
-Bruno Buchelati The Golden Wind.
I remember seeing him magnetize all the guns to himself and shoot them and realized he became the monster made out of a bunch of guns that he kept seeing when he shot those people in the arasaka lab.
its great foreshadowing
that had me fucced up as well bro. This anime was way too much of a psychological thriller for me
And on top of that he never even wanted to use guns
woah, i didnt even recognize that!!!
Good call. I didn't even realize that
The way they did my boy in, when he was already struggling with cyberpsychosis and they force him into a situation where where he has to further mutilate himself breaks my heart.
True, so sad they did him dirty!
Still though, he gives it all a certain macho flair, no?
I'm sure Johnny and Jackie aren't the only guys at The Afterlife that have drinks named after them.
Life of a merc in Night City is hard. Even the mightiest are capable of failure. It wasn't for lack of trying though.
@@MarineButt after edgerunners came out they added "The David Martinez" as a drink in the afterlife too
@@saintsrowisntcancelledanym7099 The drink's been there since day one
I think having David have the same red warning area as MaxTac was a nice touch, the one group of people that never failed to kill now on par with David
He basically was max tac without the discipline to control himself. All the max tac agents are either psycho or on the edge
@@ismjason everyone in night city is
Yet he can't stop V xd
@@BlueBlacy you can compliment somebody without having to compare them to literally the strongest dude in their verse 😭
@@robertwesley7332fr v solos everyone cause theyre literally the main character
He definitely went out in a blaze of glory. That's what legends are made of.
there's a reason you can order a David Martinez at the Afterlife
It either that or die of old age smelling slightly like urine -DD
@@amythistxue1 huh. Never paid much attention to it.
Hence the name edgerunner after you die your named Legend
No,he went out fighting for those dear to him,a far more noble end
The moment David put on those mech parts on him the more he just reminded me of the Warhammer40k dreadnought. It just gets better, that he's literally a dead man/corpse on borrowed time the moment he put those on.
Even in death he still serves.
And then they get recycled and even in death they're still served.
A Dreadnought
Its better to die for your emperor than live for yourself
Makes me think, if David's able to take that much cyberware strain, if he'd be a shoe in for a Titan Princep.
Admech would grease themselves over that thought
As is the word
Bro, David is a litteral monster in this, he looks inhuman, it's scary and sad.
That's the point of cyberpsysosis too much metal eats at your soul and you lose your humanity
@@almalone3282 yes and they perfectly display it I think
@@Gwilherm that's why episode 6 is my favorite it highlights the REAL dangers of the edgerunning lifestyle. Its not getting shot at cause at least you die human, its when you live too long and you die a monster
because he was bullied, he has a bright future in arasaka, too bad life fucks him up and dropout in the academy
@@almalone3282 what bothers me is that why does everyone think that they will be special and not go psycho if they keep chroming but its said constantly what will happen but they keep ignoring it.
"The power it generates in the short term...is unlike anything devised on this side of sanity."
As dark as the implications in this scene are, what a line.
Glad someone else felt that
This line still gives me shivers
And stellar voice acting, too.
Oh yeah, like cyberpunk gets real dark when you see some of the implications.
Like for 1, the events of edgerunners take place about a year before we start playing the game, meaning that rig David's using is not only still out there but probably back in the hands of arasaka, and now they have a feild test for what it can do because of David's actions.
Other dark things include the Black Wall, as a single AI obtained from beyond it can be used to create an extremely powerful gun or the most powerful program, and to even get the AI in the first place is a stealth section, because the robot it's taken over absolutely will kill you and you can't fight back,
it's also stated that the only reason AI like that one haven't destroyed everything yet is because the world is too primitive for them to be able to cone through.
The way Kiwi coldly says that line while David is raining down havoc and annihilation, like some sort of god of destruction ... I got goosebumps. Still do. Something about the combination of dialogue, music, and on-screen action - it's like we're there with Rebecca, Falco and Kiwi - just in complete awe.
And to think… THAT was meant to be used by Adam fucking smasher
I don’t think he needed it 😂
@@jackrobinson1073
He really fucking didn't, considering he still kicked David's ass without breaking a sweat.
And he calls it a toy!
So does that make v the strongest cyborg
@@jakobnance5277 V had something nobody else had.
Video game protagonist plot armor.
God forbid what actual wars would look like in cyberpunk, jesus
Corporate warfare involves mechs sabotage and nuclear warfare it ain’t fun
*Jesus
air superiority, eliminating enemy "eyes", boxing them in, eradicating means of retreat/cover/supply/defense, eliminating command structure, mop up. all in seconds. everyone has a very specific job and timing. like a symphony. the moment someone effs up, the other side wipes em out. the time to reposition or improvise is gone. it probably goes closer to a duel really, unless both "lose internet" and have to carpet bomb like we do today.
They had four of them already in lore with a fifth in the cards as of '77. I'm not sure I'm ready to play through number five.
Imagine actual wars in armored core lmfao
Brutal installation of that exoskeleton. He’s just a torso now lol.
I mean, he was pretty much that before. He had arms and legs both artificial.
Well if he install exoskeleton on his torso he is just become 2nd of adam smasher
Dreadnought... But no
The torso was artificial too 😂 dude was asking about muscle implant upgrades and remember he already removed his lungs.
He’s barely a head. Brain and teeth only I think. Torso is also fake. Really creepy but I love it
I like how they went in more depth for cyber pyschosis because its basically non-existent for V in the game if you fully mod him out
Maybe because V had actually 2 minds inside him, like the same system of the Jaegers of Pacific Rim: 2 minds to share the technologic overload
The game suggests that cyberpyschosis was a myth created by the corporations, and it's just people going normal psychosis due to how much horror and suffering goes on in NightCity.
@@gamemaster1608 Also V has a much shorter timespan where they get any Cyberware, meaning if they would ever get Cyberpsychosis we might not see it, since they would die earlier either way
Arguably, the Relic activating like it did, seeing Johnny and coming back from the dead? Sounds like cyberpsychosis to me.
@@OmegaGregar Higher functioning Cyberpsychosis. Basically Johhny kept him relatively sane.
they managed to make this fight so thrilling considering a lot of it is shown on that tablet
Like a fleet fight in EVE Online. Never kicked so much butt in a spreadsheet.
Its really well crafted. There isnt really a doubt about wether or not david can take on militech with the exoskeleton so the drama comes from rebeca's and falco's reaction to what this means intercut with an inhuman david
Finally made 1k, you're welcome choom😂
@@Solkre82 boredom simulator
@@HamasAreTerrorists a second job you have to pay for, simulator.
Captain here: So the reason V, was able to chrome out so excessively and not fall victim to Cyberpsyhosis like our boy David, was due to Relic device, for the exact same reason it was killing them.
Due to the Relic re-writing parts of the brain it viewed as problematic, it never allowed a chance for the Cyberpsyhosis to set in.
So at the cost of their life-span, V was granted immunity to the problems and issues that lead to the symptoms of Cyberpsyhosis.
Edit: This really blew up.
Thanks for everyone's input
Great analysis. Thanks.
@@Kopie0830 problem is, her own mind was being replaced with Jhonny Silverhand mind...
It's why when Alt said that his body wasn't his anymore due to JS taking over, V was doomed to die in 6 months, didn't matter on the Psuedo or Blockers were taken.
That's a lame cop out, and either way by the end of the game with either Johnny or V in full control of their body, cyberpsychosis will set in anyway
NANOMACHINES SON
"Unlike anything devised on this side of sanity"
Why does that line sound so bad ass yet also so bloody terrifying
this scene made me sad but also happy for david. the whole show he was trying to help others achieve their dream, even died for it.. but THIS was his dream. he wanted to be an edgerunner and find a family and experience love. he was able to do all those things and ultimately died a legend. that final smile on his face before he is killed showed a man who truly was at peace with himself. he wasnt on the edge at all like maine was when he snapped. if you look closely at the closing montage of him walking through night city alone, he walks and stops right in the middle. perfectly centered.
yes a lot of people were saying he was shit, but he and lucy were great characters, people always think they can do better
@@tc105 Yeah, people are spoiled by all the popular shounen anime. They think the character has to turn into a God at the end, otherwise they're a trash character. Legends exist for a reason; I'm glad Edgerunners drove that point home. It gives the struggle so much more meaning, and the stakes are so much higher when your characters are fighting while outclassed.
As all things should be.
He asked them how he did…his friends were terrified beyond all rational thought.
Dude died for a lame piece of ass lmfao.
As amazing at this display was, shows how extraordinary V really is. V surpassed David AND Smasher, the only one who was “special”.
johnny helped.
I wonder if v having the construct of silver hand allowed v’s body to take implants without the threat cyberphycosis even though johnny is killing v. Because late game v can have all the implants similar to David and Adam smasher’s but never deals with psychosis
@@jakobnance5277 v died already remember?
v is literally 2 guys in single body so 2 brains
@@jakobnance5277 The thing is that V is still have less implants than Smasher for sure . -.
Man that part about David’s mom crying about her wanting better for him hits so different now 😢
Reminds me of this world. In the process he lost his humanity.
@@user-sj5pt4tm4r I don’t think he did or he wouldn’t have saved Lucy and valued love I meant in the sense she wanted him to make something of himself the right way and live a good life, but once she passed he had no choice no one was going to pay for school let alone bills he had to turn to the street lifestyle
Yeah, David destroyed her mother's dreams for him in the worst way possible, not to mention he lost himself so much he failed to realize he "reaching the top of Arasaka" was nothing like what his mother wanted for him.
@@johnhendrix28 he still becoe paid killer. his mom didnt want that for her kid
@@yutro213 That's the irony of it.
Edgerunners broke my heart
Even though i expected the ending it still hit so hard and the songs also stuck in my head too 😭😭
I am still sad. I finished it yesterday.
I can't bring myself to re-watch or listen to the song other wise I will cry and get depressed again.
Also gimme the pfp sauce.
BIH'CUZ EH MYISS U ALL THEH THYYYYMMMEEEE. 🎵🎵🎵 🎵!
same with me
So watchuu wanna dooo
Yeah... there are no happy endings in Night City, so I wasn't expecting one. The bittersweet shit mess we ended up with was the best you could hope for, and my soul aches nonetheless. Almost didn't finish the series because on some level if I don't see the bad shit go down I can pretend everyone had a happy ending, but that's silly... *sigh*
It all started with a car accident
Not exactly.
It all started by one bitter Japanese soldier who refused to commit seppuku.
Except this time it didn't transport him to a generic game like fantasy world like a lot of anime 🤣
More like malfunctioning vr headset.
@@orwellmushaikwa2591 LMAO our trusty isekai
@@azazel166 Dude I wish Saburos lore got explored more, such an overlooked thing
Never expect anyone in the cyberpunk setting to get a happy ending.
I love the fact that they thought it was a good idea to give their test subject GOD LIKE POWER.
They honestly didn't think he would survive it
Even funnier? This man was like 18 ah yes let me give the 18 year old boy the ability to move at basically the speed of light and overpowered magnets surely this will end up exactly how I planned!
20 seconds
Later: *launching cars into the air like it’s an average Tuesday*
holy shit you can really hear the sadness in becca’s voice when she both realizes he’s using his sandy, and when she thinks the missiles hit him
THIS is what I imagined Cyberpunk 2077 would let you be near the end.
Bruh same
From a gameplay stand point, I consider this impossible. Like changing your entire player model to a massive cyborg is a lil crazy. But it certainly would be cool.
@@Amoogus I have some experience with RED engine. I thought it was impossible for them to make working police AI and vehicle combat, but they did that. I can’t believe they’re actually going to fix this game. It only took 3 years, but it’s totally worth playing now
@@Technicallyaddicted it would still only hit 2yrs this december
@@MisakaMikoto1069 sorry. I’m from the future.
Everyone saying V was stronger because they chromed out with no psychosis, but they also had Relic fixing the "damaged" parts of their brain constantly. The moment part of their mind starts to slip, it's replaced. David managed to do everything he did without anything like that. He's just that good.
Except kill Smasher lol
@@unfortunatecircumstances8870 David only lost because he wasn't prepared, they even say that exo skeleton was originally for Adam Smasher, not david. Smasher had better gear/cyberware and more experience, but both had the same potential, the story would be different if the anime would've been longer.
@@distortion1167 David would need years of experience and skill to match Smasher. He was a kid. Smasher is a war veteran. The only advantage David has is his cyber skeleton, which Adam made short work of. V is just plainly a better edgerunner.
@@unfortunatecircumstances8870 True but I wouldnt say that the cyber skeleton was weak in any way. The cyberpyschosis really set him back and the fight between David and smasher made zero sense. Smasher should have atleast taken a lot of damage but they legit just showed him get antigraved for one second and then he rips david apart. The way he destroyed millitech -- david should have been more than a match for smasher.
@@stronecrone4178 he was tired mans fought a whole army saved his girl jumped out and still had to fight smasher and say goodbye 😂
That ost is absolutely a banger
I’m still trying to find it!
@@Jmoney10000 found this comment from another vid
It's “Run to the Edge” by Marcin Przybylowicz and P.T. Adamczyk, but i can't find it anywhere...
@@darknesswing1994 Hellow. 👋
@@darknesswing1994 thanks muchly. 🙏
@@Jmoney10000 th-cam.com/video/FaN9j0tm7lE/w-d-xo.html
Its only a cover, the song has not yet been released
Interesting how Cyberpunk's "special people" keep getting better and more resilent each time someone new enters the ring. Wayland, Silverhand, Smasher, Blackhand, ROUGE, Martinez and Victor/Valerie. Each one of these people become stronger and stronger with each iteration. Martinez was the "special one" before the legend herself entered the round. V. The more who sacrifice, the closer the new kids get to riding that edge of total fucking anarchy. Night City will burn one day, without a doubt.
Well first, there's the issue that cyberware, software, and ability to make the 1.0 meat adapt is being refined over time. Given it a couple of decades, and even this might not make you Cyber Psycho after days worth of battle time.
Night City won't be the only ashen ruins if this trend continues.
@@bthsr7113 Totally believe if Arasaka ever pissed smasher off enough he wouldn't want just NC to burn, but the whole damn world too. So, agreed.
Would NC burning really be that much of a loss, though?
Ahem Himself my dude lol
@@jtho8937 we never said it was a bad thing :)
I think why David went fully cyberpsycho was every time he killed someone I noticed he slowed time down either by instinct or to get the kill so he really takes it all in mentally..plus his mom passing early on
I mean the Sandivistan *did* kick in the nanosecond he saw Pilar get his chin blown out the top of his skull.
Seeing that happen in slo-mo would fuck anyone up.
@@jtlego1 funny enough his chin was all that was left of his head
@@jtlego1 I... thought that was just for the audience?
@@mikethespike056 you can see the sandy's visual effects on the edge of david, he did seem to unintentionally activate it
No, it's just because he's less human and using the stuff makes his body & mind react negatively more than just having it on him, that's all Cyberpsyhosis is.
I like how the mechsuit wasnt the generic giant suit with miniguns and missiles but something unique with freakin gravity generators
Why come pre-equipped with guns when your mech can just _steal the enemy's?_
If you think thats unique wait till you see the windmill gundam
I find it silly though how the operator's torso there has zero armor around it, also those troopers are worefull underarmed to begin with carrying SMGs shooting pistol ammo rather than something firing rifle rounds.
@@jeffumbach
_I never knew the Ecclesiarchy had Penitent Engines as early as the late 2050's...!_
@@jeffumbach because that skeleton was for Adam Smasher, and that guy is already a walking armor himself
V had Relic making him immune to cyberpsychosis(so he's just as OP as Adam Jensen in Deus Ex setting, being completely immune to drawbacks of implants), meanwhile Smasher was a psycho BEFORE he was rebuild. In his case it's like pumping Joker full of Venom, he won't be aggressive because of Venom, he'd be aggressive because he's the Joker. And V likely will face full consequences in new DLC since Relic is no longer shielding them...
I'm pretty sure the dlc takes place before the ending.
Dlc isnt post ending content
Where in the game does it state that the relic is preventing V from going kooky?
As others have pointed out V probably already suffers from it a bit. The players being that influence of crazy
Mike Pondsmith said that cyberpsychosis isn't caused by cybernetics. People who under go cyberpsychosis already had underlying metal issues, the cybernetics just accelerate and amplify them to ridiculous extents hence the name "cyberpsychosis"
everyone dies....
but not everyone dies to Adam Smasher as a cyberpsycho
Falco was amused
But rebecca was horrified
David: *slaughters entire Army unit*
Adam Smasher: "That's rookie numbers. Here's how it's done." *stomps David in*
This whole scene and then Adam Smasher's beatdown of David just makes the disparity between the anime and the video game fight against Adam even more absurd.
After episode 7 it was hard to watch. So sad to see David slowly losing himself to cyberpsychosis. This anime broke me.
David was definitely "special"...but he wasn't immortal. He had extremely high tolerance for cyberware but taking on all of Maine's implants was probably his limit, he added Sandy to that+more and finally capped it with the Cyber Armor. If he had been a bit more steady and cautious I feel like he would have been able to live longer and eventually reached or even exceeded Smasher's level....but he is an edgerunner for a reason I guess.
Literalmente por su edad hizo demasiado si tan solo no se hubiese empeñado tanto en colocarse demasiados implantes hasta seguro hubiese logrado un mejor nivel superando a smasher
Nah smasher is the special one because he'd had no humanity to lose. The rpg makes that clear he could handle implants because his mindset was already unhinged.
@@zachburskey8868 I don't think that makes him special since he was already deranged that puts him below normal people since he was crazy even with 0 implants. Smasher gave David an offer to join him if David accepted he would have been just like Smasher so personally don't think Smasher was that special. What made David special was he could keep his humanity even with so much cyber ware which obv Smasher can't do.
@@roslolian11 special depends on the environment his mentality deff allowed him to be be special in the cyberpunk world.
@@roslolian11 thing is he had no mercy or sympathy but wasn't deranged, he was perfectly "sane", basically he had control over his own decisions and didn't require any immuno suppresants to handle cyberware, cyberpsychosis is much worse than smasher's condition, because it makes you loose control of yourself, when "YOURSELF" IS the crazy one, you're immune tothat and can power up as much as you need with 0 worry for cyberpsychosis.
The thing where u say david could keep his humanity, smasher never had one to loose in the first place, so he didn't really loose it. when normal people loose their humanity, they end up mutilating themselve's an others with no aim, smasher instead never had that problem, he could just do what he wants
I love how they sound genuinely scared for him like Rebecca genuinely sounds terrified
David’s basically a miniaturized version of the Gundam Barbatos from Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans with all that tech! He’s as savage as Mikazuki when he’s in the Barbatos’s cockpit. A wolf from Hell itself!
YESSSSS that was such a great series. And mikazuki died just like David.
@@Boganok u could say that Studio Trigger was probably inspired by what Sunrise did in that case.
@@Boganok we need a new Gundam series!
@@MatrixJockey witch from mercury?
That's exactly what I was thinking and saying.
I remember one of the explanations for cyberpsychosis is due to the sheer power one gains from excessive modification. See, a cybernetic arm that's a 1-to-1 for a human arm with no frills is no problem. It's just replacing a lost part. But as you go above that, it starts to have a psychological impact. You start losing your human perspective the further above human capabilities you go. Why care anything about slow, squishy, weak little humans when you can kill them by the dozens in a heartbeat?
Near as I can tell its basically the same thing that happens to people who get into car crashes and get brain damage that causes them to see their limbs as alien. Body sometimes can't cope with the new parts or 'weird' parts, even if it looks exactly like the original, people with prosthetics that are made to look like the original go into mental breakdowns all the time.
Power or no, imagine what would happen to people if they took on a bunch of these extreme modifications seen in cyberpunk where you barely look human?
Beyond that all examples of cyberpsychosis are from people who were either forced through excessive body modding, were mentally ill before hand, or experienced a extreme amount of stress in a short time. Cyberpsychosis is basically a cyberpunk word for someone having a mental breakdown while having deadly weapons strapped to them.
"From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me, I craved the strength and sanctity of steel" - adeptus mechanicus, warhammer 40k
@Lex Bright Raven or MAGA
Cyberpsychos stems from one’s soul. V died and so his soul left him before he reanimated and he become an empty vessel which is why he can augment without becoming a psycho
By that logic children would be killed in the dozens that makes no fucking sense
The one thing I love about this series is that Dave *Is Not* Special and he pays for it at the end!
He is special, he was able to handle that THING without immediately succumbing to cyberpsychosis.
The problem is that he wasn't as special as he thought, In short, he fought Adam smasher who was even more special than David.
In the end though he was able to make lucy achieve her dream of going and living on the moon, so his life wasn't in vain and he ended up having a better, more meaningful impact than anyone else in the entire series.
He was a little bit special special just enough to shake everyone up until some much more special *Adam smasher*
Just finish watching the show and my god. This good depiction of cybernetic body horror really drills it in into you.
Power comes with a price.
"The power it generates in the short term, is unlike anything devised in this side of sanity"
Holy shit. That line. That fucking line is one of the best in the anime
This is LITERALLY the 2.0 version of when WIKUS,from DISTRICT 9,used the MECH suit,to fight those soldiers.
That immediately came into my mind as well.
Reminds me of RoboCain, those armored cyborgs from Predator: Concrete Jungle, Dreadnoughts from W40K, District 9's "prawn" exo-skeleton, and a whole lot more...
Jeez, he really put the "post" in post-human.
The fact that he vomits blood everytime he gets a vial injected. Damn.
Man you can hear the distress in Rebecca's voice. The person she truly considered a friend and one she was secretly in love with was slowly deteriorating in front of her.
The interesting thing about cyberpsychosis: the way it works on tabletop, is it's risk is inversely related to your characters level of humanity. The lower your humanity score is, the less chrome your body can handle. So a person with already sociopathic tendencies can only take a few augs before they risk going psycho, and those would hardly amount to more than a miniboss-level threat. While someone like Mister Rogers could have an entire armory's worth of chrome installed and get turned into a walking Apocalypse.
Dear God
The Mister Rogers Gundam
Would this mean the Adam Smasher at one point was a saint?
@@bitchesandbastards
Nah; he was a special case. Smasher was the solution for GM's with a problem, that being their players getting too murder hobo-y. He was the in-game equivalent of "fuck around and find out."
@@chesterstevens8870 No you're just talking complete nonsense. The opposite of what you said is true - The more sociopathic you are the less likely you are to go cyberpsycho.
@@bitchesandbastards nah, Adam smasher stack overflow
Props to this show having the balls to kill off good characters and our main character makes the story hit wayyy harder
Man, the last chapter was so hard to watch...There was no safe for him, just waiting for the moment of his death was painfull.
If David was this dangerous at this level, he would've been a major menace if he lived on and became consumed by the cyberpsychosis. Even Adam had to acknowledge his talent. The most vile monsters are not the ones in front of us but inside of us.
What V would say if David was alive
"What is cyberpsychosis?"
One of the best series ive ever watched no one can convince me of the opposite
The cyberpsycosis is apparently either controllable or focusable, even in game some characters are reformatted in some way, I know the chick from the first trailers is now a max tac member who still loves the sight of blood...
Would make sense that the most deadly enforcers would be salvaged from them.
You need full legendary mods in order to meet her
Within the lore of the games and series: Cyberpsychosis can be treated with appropriate medical care, but that only delays the progression. The only cure is to remove the implants and replace them with more basic ones that are closer to natural in function, but this is something few people are willing to do - it'll usually mean giving up their successful career at the very least. Occasionally someone is apprehended alive after going on a full-on rampage and will receive involuntary downgrade and treatment, which allows for a partial recovery - they'll still have PTSD and they won't ever be able to use enhancements again, but they can recover most of their sanity.
Given how violent many careers in the cyberpunk setting are though, there's always that temptation to get just a little bit more enhancement, even when the signs of a break are getting harder to dismiss. Surely just one more implant can't hurt, right? Just need to be a little faster, a little tougher. One more.
This gives me the vibe from the last battle of District 9.
it must be truly terrifying to see a 7 ton mechanized person of mass destruction move at ungodly speeds and wipe out an entire convoy of people in less than 3 minutes
You know how biblical angels are discribed as multi eyed multi winged monstrosities that can drive a man mad just by looking at them this is what i immagine a cyberpunk angel looks like
The anime imitates the car physics from the game as well. 11/10 anime.
He wasn't **quite** pshyco in this scene. He was riding the line. It's when they get into NC primary when he really loses it. And the only anime to have a fight this badass that made me sad as fuck
David just nearly become the second adam smasher
I love how the only exposed parts are literally his vitals
i just pray for a single happy ending in Night City
Cyberpunk world? Nah forget about it. There is no happy ending at all.
Wrong city
Wrong people
Fuckin even GOT had a relatively happy ending.
I mean that's why I go the Aldecados ending, at least there's a glimmer of hope.
Judie's is fine. She moves forward with her life. Although it can go back to bad if V dies/suicides
And yet with all that, Adam crushed him like a bug.
Imagine what Smasher was capable of before V got hold of him.
This scene has vibes so similar to Asuka vs JSDF battle. Masterpiece.
No joke he'd be an interesting boss in the game.
He even has MMO-esque AoE fields when he weaponizes the gravity fields!
He's a perfect fit.
Maybe at the start of the game, as he's infinitely weaker than Smasher lol
I figure that V had two things working in his favor that allowed him to chrome up so much.
He had the relic itself, something overwriting parts of his brain and allowing him to get an abnormal mind. The relic overwriting him probably saw the cyberpsychosis as a difference between Johnny's head, meaning it was clearing out the gunk AS V got it.
Second, Johnny himself was also likely helping take on the mental load from the cyberware, making it harder for V to go psycho.
Both combined meant that V could essentially get to 100% cyborg and he'd still be sane.
***Looking at the trail of bodies though, just put "Sane" in huge quotations.***
Gotta love the amount of body horror, it's truly dehumanizing in a good way.
THE HOT WIND BLOWING
Cyberpsychosis is portrayed differently in the game and anime. In anime it feels like inevitability of augmentation. However in the game very few actually had it. There were the Maelstroms that were straight up full borgs and most of them were fine. Relatively speaking
The thing about Maelstrom is they are like Adam Smasher, they have cyberpsychosis but they are already so far gone from humanity that they can function normally.
The Maelstroms intentionally make themselves look fucked up and scary. I don't think they are actually all that chromed out.
You all can say that Vincent aka V was a prodigy of Night City,but David was the one who surpassed his own mental and physical limits,destroying a whole platoon of Militech weaponry whilst getting decimated by rockets and Basilisks. No matter the fact that he needed to technically jug down loads of immunosuppressants,he STILL made it out alive.
V took down arasaka
@@mrpopo5097 David didn't even care about taking out Arasaka
I think people for get the entire show happen within a year. David went from broke Arasaka dropout with no parents to single handily taking on the whole militia that Smasher was needed to take him out, in a year. And he’s only 18.
@@dr.tacophd1239 Talk about impressive
@@ddbs9415 David couldn’t even take down arasaka. Dude got stomped by Adam smasher.
"an edge runner doesnt make a name by how they live, they make a name for themselves by how they die."
That skeleton probably pumped David with more immunoblockers than he has fluids in his entire body.
At that point, David was gone
They did David so dirty. He mutilated himself. He sacrificed himself. In the name if love. He became the strongest cyborg ever. He kept enough sanity not to kill his friends.
And when he was half dead, faced Adam Smasher.
He died a Legend.
Poor dude. It was so sad.
I wonder what would’ve happened if David wasn’t lucid? Like he’d be aware of everything I think even maybe by a small fraction of a chance he could defeat Adam.
Literally reloading his sanity
Me: Can we get this in the game?
Devs: No.
Me: Well can we now get flying cars in the game?
Devs: No.
@@beefueater4586 flying cars are not a thing in the cyberpunk universe though
@@beefueater4586 flying cars don’t exist in this world. But flying ships exist thought
In the game u gotta take down Cyberpychos without killing them to help save them.
the track is fire
My guy really looks like Kamsin from MG Rising.
“HERE I AM, DIRTY AND FACELESS WAITING TO HEAR YOUR INSTRUCTIONS”
On my own, invisible warrior
I AM A WIND OF DESTRUCTION!!!
Never forget cyber punk has no real villian. The world is the bad guy, Davids story is about how self destructive living for someone or something other then yourself can be.
In the end his dream for someone else was just that, HIS dream.
No one really forced David too keep going but himself. Infact your favorite characters almost definitely begged him to stop.
Damn too bad didn’t have any suppressants against smasher
He might have won
Doubt it. Smasher has much better chromes and experiences.
nah not even close
Idk Smasher’s specs are insane, David might have had experimental tech but Smashers was made for him
By the end the meds were barely having an effect as each shot was needed in shorter durations.
@@Pinkus_ I think smasher's chrome was technically less powerful and sophisticated than David's exoskeleton. But Smasher had more experience using is implants, and frankly was used to fighting people closer to his league. David's early kills boiled down to a lot of surprise or the Sandivistan. By the time he was killing higher level goons, he had far more cyberwar than them, which meant they were physically below his weight class. Smasher though, was borged out sure, but he didn't necessarily have the crushing advantage David did over his contemporaries due to the limits of the technology of his time. This means that Smasher is not only highly cyberized but he was actually SKILLED in his use of cyberware. It's why smasher won handily despite supposedly using older hardware. It's also (I like to think) why V won their fight with Smasher.
Ma man casually having multiple aneurysms and he’s wiping out an entire battle group
This army here is just a small percent of Militech power, they have powerful experimental weapons as well
This show was so awesome it felt like an extended story from love death and robots!
😂
Perfectly put
I find it hilarious after the injection he practically passes out then raises his head smiling.
After playing the game and doing the Panam questline and using the Basilisk to easily shred through dozens if not hundreds of enemies and raiders with still being able to use the basilisk. Seeing David dismantle entire militech squads and tear through trucks and cars and multiple basilisks in just a few minutes was crazy.
The techno music is epic!, partially at this scene 0:44
Militech is actually pretty competent. Them trying to crush him between two 18 wheelers was probably the smartest thing for them
yeah. had it not been for his antigrav, they would have likely been able to pin him for a little while.
Militech personnel*
That’s not the police
@@tragictwo1029 militech mb
Became the jesus of the show, knows hes going to die so decides to go all out.
David said: its mine guns now
This has big "Brad vs The Rando Army" energy
He just kinda replaced all his blood with immunosuppressants while in the cyberskeleton. This fight was total grimdark, like a combo of Warhammer 40K and the machine war segments from Animatrix
God damn the music when David is just obliterating everything gets me so fucking pumped. Gives me frisson every time
Remember, the fact that Smasher curbstomped a David that can do all this shows how strong V is
i love how david thought hes all special until adam showed up being basically a brain in the most advanced high tech body lmao
How humanity has not brought an end to itself in this world where this kind of weapons are available to regular civilians is beyond me.
the same kind of weapons available for those who put the world on life support
This is a prototype stolen from a megacorp though. Not something the average civilian or even fighter can readily get.
Mutual destruction. Literally what stops us from nuking each other even when we are very much capable of doing so.
Isn't more than half the planet a complete shithole in this universe? I think they almost did already
It’s secret tech wasn’t it. Definitely not accessible to civilians. Militech was even going on with the spying shit just to get the skeleton. I do agree how people who came from night city and chromed up work on the outside world. Maybe it was touched on on the game but haven’t played it.
The detail of seeing David’s cyberware capacity max out and drain so rapidly sells the scene for me, such amazing attention to detail
This is proof that V is either lucky af or the relic might have cured Cyberpsychosis as a side effect while overwriting V´s brain.
Or, they was a cyberpsycho when you take into account the body count V has, when they don't actually have to live the life they're living. In the lore, most cyberpsychos aren't actually going on rampages and becoming incoherent, they mostly function in the setting of Cyberpunk they're just one bad day away from ending up on MaxTechs hitlist.
I like how in the anime David had the sandevistan, the arm cannon and the super jump cyberwares but that was already enough enough to begin pushing him towards psychosis but that's nothing compared to the ludicrious amount of cyberware most players shove into their V's.
We've got a big chip with another mind on it. No room for the psychosis to set in.
A sandevistan was a fairly standard thing in 2020. It gave you +3 Initiative. Unlike kerenzikov boosters who were always on, sandevistan are activated in bursts. They are easier on your Humanity Cost than permanently watching the world in slow motion.
A bare-bones cyberarm is dehumanizing and becomes more so when you pack it with stuff. People can pack small holdout pistols in them. It's not a powerful gun, but it's a gun you can pop out when necessary. Some people hide microgrenades in their toes or fingers.
Two barebones cyberlegs work the same way, the more dehumanizing stuff you fit in them the more HC you get. I can't recall what assisted jump cost you. You could get dang rollerskate feet instead.
+3 Initiative from a sandevistan isn't as huge as it sounds. An experienced solo probably has +5 or +7 just from their experience and skill. No cybernetics can beat instinct and skill. But when solos compare against other solos, every edge they can get counts. +3 can mean you're a tenth of a second faster to pull the trigger in a standoff.
Eurosolos scoff at american hardware fixation. They are all about skill, often broad skillsets no one expects a solo to have.
You can’t drive a construct insane. V’s brain already jello by the time he got dug up by Takemura.
Zach Aguilar did such a good job throughout this whole anime
The series broke me
I wished it was longer but I also loved how short it was
OH MY GOD
THE HOT WIND BLOWIN'