Edgerunners 2 showrunner Bartosz Sztybor says the show is not locking in a single canon ending for Cyberpunk 2077.
The team worked with CDPR’s lore team to find a version of the world that could “satisfy all the endings” instead of picking one.
The only firm post-game detail is that Arasaka is weakened, which gives them more room to show Night City differently.
A possible image of female V in the show is “left for interpretation,” Sztybor said.
Edgerunners 2 is set in 2078, one year after the game.
Edgerunners 2 is a 7/10 for me
First season was 9/10 because it made me feel more depressed 😅
But the best cyberpunk story is the Phantom Liberty expansion with Idris Elba, highly recommend playing it.
Probably my favorite solo gaming experience in its genre.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners creator Bartosz Sztybor says Season 1 actually had a “happy ending”, at least from his perspective.
The finale is obviously bruta, but Sztybor says things could have ended much worse for David, he could have survived only to become an unwilling tool of Arasaka.
“I mean, in a way, because it could end so much worse,”
He also believes some of the characters were simply too tragic for their stories to end differently.
Edgerunners Season 1 broke everyone’s hearts,
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Season 2 will have a completely new cast and story, but it will still connect closely to Season 1.
Creator Bartosz Sztybor says the idea for one of the new characters, Weak Kingsley, came from a “what if?” thought he had while writing Season 1:
“What if David made it? What if he didn’t die?”
Sztybor imagined David becoming a famous Edgerunner, but felt that his tragic personality would eventually lead to his downfall.
That idea helped inspire Weak, a veteran Edgerunner who was once at the top but now lives in the shadow of his past success.
“Season 1 is zero to hero. Season 2 is hero to zero.”
The new season won’t continue David’s story directly and will explore new characters and more stories from Night City.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners almost featured a different and "even worse" ending than the one it got, according to writer Bartosz Sztybor.
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