Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 gets its first teaser, and you'd better "be prepared for sadness"

"I conscionable wanted to marque the full satellite sad...when radical are sad, I'm a spot happy"

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Are you beauteous blessed close now? Well, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, the follow-up to that Cyberpunk 2077 Netflix anime, volition marque you bully and miserable erstwhile it arrives.

CD Projekt revealed this past play that the upcoming series, which'll present a caller standalone communicative acceptable successful Night City, is presently successful production. Animation workplace Trigger person returned to enactment connected Edgerunners 2, with Kai Ikarashi directing and Bartosz Sztybor wearing galore hats arsenic writer/showrunner/producer. Right, from present connected there'll beryllium spoilers for the archetypal Cyberpunk Edgerunners series, truthful you've been warned.

We didn't get a merchandise day for the 10 occurrence bid arsenic portion of this authoritative announcement that Edgerunners 2 is successful the works, with CD Projekt lone revealing that it'll beryllium hitting Netflix "in the future". Which, er, yeah. There was a teaser, though, which was precise wide that the archetypal Edgerunners series' protagonist has decidedly kicked the bucket.

"David is dead," it declares amid shots of Cyberpunky anime radical doing Cyberpunky anime things, "but Night City lives on." Thankfully, determination was a spot much info than that, with aggregate chapeau wearer Sztybor outlining that you tin expect "a raw, existent chronicle of redemption and revenge, thing dissimilar what we’ve done before."

That said, 1 facet of the archetypal bid volition beryllium decidedly coming to Edgerunners 2, with the writer telling folks connected the Tweeter to "be prepared for sadness". Yep, Edgerunners famously wasn't acrophobic to permission you feeling similar you'd conscionable been kicked successful the cybernuts and exposed to monolithic amounts of bulb chopping, and you'd amended get acceptable for thing similar that again.

During the sheet that featured the Edgerunners 2 announcement, Sztybor outlined his attack to quality stories successful dystopian worlds with immoderate all-time quotes. Are you Polish? Thoughts connected the beneath welcome:

We're the institution from Poland. I'm from Poland. People successful Poland are sad. They are calved sad, they dice sad, truthful I conscionable wanted to marque the full satellite sad...when radical are sad, I'm a spot happy.

So determination you go, commencement stocking up connected tissues and possibly mounting speech immoderate clip to descent into 5 thousandth Cyberpunk 2077 playthrough erstwhile CD Projekt merchandise that final, final, last spot they precocious pushed back.