Your mixes have carried me through the last 1-2 years of med school. You have no idea how many nights have been made bearable because I've had these amazing ambiences droning in the background. I really, really appreciate the good work!
25:50 i love the fact that it kind of sounds like the Relic theme, just Songbird-ified. Really goes to show just how similar her situation and V's were
omg yes, thank you, I haven't even noticed it before! The leitmotifs are something else in 2077. Btw do I remember correctly, is it the song that plays during the train ride?
If ypu notice song birds music theme becomes more and more simple and haubting but more and more empty. Like a traped bird who slowly loses its will to sing until buy the end you onyl hear distant remains of the core melody.
Yes! Songbird’s apartment is another perfect example too, it’s the last time we hear her theme and it’s completely stripped down, so much emptier than the previous versions
haven't heard music with progression like that since Halo and its reworking of iconic themes to match vibe of the game and/or mission...@@SlowWalkthroughs
I imagine it is simply the Blackwall stripping it down, same as it does with her memories, her personality, if not even with her physical body. Until only an empty shell remains, as in animated background of the vid itself.
@@Johann_Gambolputty_of_Ulm The whole cyno sure is so well made. The more we advance to her the more we manualy deactivate the facility making it more and more instabile so that black wall ai starts slipping through like the cerebus ai. At the end the black wall Ai Finaly is able to spot the breach aka cyno and Song and strats removing the breaching vector while it allows Song to shut the robot down,it also cant differentiate between her and her breach Protokol she used to cross the blackwall. So it all gets deleted also Song is full of rouge ais already.Alot of reasons for the Blackwall AI to neutralize the threat.
12:50 always hits hard. My favorite track. ALSO LETS GO! Songbird hour mix is here! Her music is some of the best. Thanks for the work you put into the vids! I’ve been using them a lot lately and loving them
@@SlowWalkthroughs You as well Slow! Always appreciate your work choom and happy to see how far you’ve come. It’s been fun getting back into the game especially with the surprise of this awesome expansion that I still haven’t gotten over 😭
Probably one of, if not the best game score i've ever heard. Cyberpunks score was absolutely phenomenal and make me feel stuff no other soundtrack does. It's so good, and your mixes elevate whatever thing i'm doing - well done.
Free songbird - once you played this path, heard this song... it will stick to your mind like superglue. You may not remember it's notes or be able to humm it from your memory, but once you hear it again - you can recall all or the emotions it gave you, when you went inside Cynosure core for the first time. And it... hurts... so good to hear it again.
Thank you for this. It's difficult to describe the feelings this dlc gave me. This music is superbly put together given how much I love the ost. I've wanted a comp like this ever since. Thank you, my pain subsides and I can rest ❤
Damn...as much as I like to stand with SoMi, I consider Somewhat Damaged to contain some of the best storytelling in the entire game. It feels canon in a lot of ways, and the fact that it is the more tragic, dark, and less "ideal" ending makes the idea of it being canon even more compelling. The first time I completed PL, this was the ending I got and I'm really glad I went this route. Flying her to the moon is cool, but I feel like it is just not as emotionally/psychologically impactful.
Another wonderful piece you have here Slow. I can relax and let my mind unwind with these tracks... others you can get into the mood with them or drive like a maniac in a Maimai. ;)
I think that we need the ultimate Blackwall mix with the Songbird themes + Alt’s theme, core Mikoshi, rite of passage and the relic theme. All of this combined with the scary rouge Ai Blackwall ambiance. I would love to hear something like this.
I sided with So-Mi because I realized what she was. She was what V is, what V is only good for - a weapon. But she was worn out, used so much, worn down. Either she would keep being used and die eventually, or be thrown out. She had a plan to get away, be recycled, rest. When V is worn out and no longer a capable weapon, what happens to V? Discarded. Forgotten. Given the barest niceties, if that. I could sympathize. I wish the game let me express that more, along with, well, fuck the NUSA-corpse-that-Militech-wears-as-a-cloak state she works for, as well. So we let her rest, pried her out of the hands wielding her. Maybe MBE and so will milk her for info, but hey, it screws over the NUSA anyway.
The best thing about So Mi is that if only she could really help V. She would do that. She is more human than she realizes. Despite everything what happened she was able to keep humanity inside her and she was fightning for her freedom like a true strong girl. Yes So Mi is true strong female character. Not this psychopath Ellie from the last of us 2 and other tomboys. Tomboys thinks that they are strong females because they have short hair and wear male clothes but they are not strong. They are weak. Girl is strong when she is feminime. So Mi had her feminime moments and she doesn't see emotions as weakness. No matter what complex guys and tomboys think about her. So Mi is true strong female character and she is stronger than every Ellie. Abby. Nadine and other disgusting tomboys from Naughty Dog games and Square Enix.
Totally with you. So Mi is not as good of a liar as she thinks and I knew the entire time that there was going to be some kind of betrayal from her. I respected her for being straight up about it at the end, and I just thought...yeah yeah. I know. Let's get you on this spacecraft. Tell Lucy I said hi. No way was I going to give her up to Reed. I know that Reed is also a victim in his own way, but unlike So Mi, despite his big talk, he was never going to break away from his master. Playing the Reed ending definitely enforced my feelings on the matter. The only way out for Reed is if you make a choice that he's literally incapable of making himself. Also, So Mi being a mirror to V is also apt in how you yourself escape. The only way out for you is to give her up and live with the fact that you put her into hell. And you lose everything to be free...including Johnny, including your friends...including your lover. And even your chrome. You're just a nobody, and even though you're "free", you're also prey to anyone with even bootleg tier 1 mods. That's what Cyberpunk is all about. The only way to be free is to give up everything, and everyone. And even then, you'll probably lose.
my first walkthrough was like "you know what, boys and girls? f all of you. take this psychopath, who lied to everyone through all her life and killed thousands of innocent people, and get lost. don't need a crap from you. also wish both of you to suffer at work as hard as you can" it's sad there is no option to kill them all. oh, wait. there is - don't pick up Meyers. The best scenario for V.
Hey I don't know if you read all the comments but I want to thank you for making this mix!! I have ptsd flashbacks and simultaneously need to pursue a legal battle while loosing my apartment + my health is f*cked 😂 Not trying to cry about it, but this mix keeps me sane and present in situations, where I'd previously loose my marbles 🫡
I completed 2 ending of PL, betray songbird and betray Reed.. when i choose to side with reed, i saw somi backstory, and thats really... sad.. she's just a slave, alone, desperate. Thats why in my opinion, send somi to the moon is the best ending for her. She just want to be cured, she just wanna live like a normal being not a slave by myers. Maybe she was betray reed, and betray V, but i think most of the people will do the same especially if they had a backstory like somi, cuz they just wanna survive And when you choose to give somi to reed, in the ending johny will appear and said, he felt bad to her. She's just alone and at least V has johnny
At the end of the day it feels like your forced to choose between 2 options and its "what's best for So Mi" and "whats best for not Reed...but yourself" do you help her escape this hell that she has essentially built for herself and absolve her or do you side with Reed and find a way to finally ensure your survival no matter the cost. At the end of the day there truly are no winners for the main cast of CP2077, their fates were decided from the moment you launched the game all thats left is how you as the player will lead them there.
nah fr tho? the ending where you first side with reed made the whole thing feel like a horror game, the whole playthrough that i did the ending on i had felt unstoppable but not being able to damage that robot made me feel so utterly helpless
Such an incredible soundtrack! Theres a song in the van to ncx scene that sounds like a slowed mix of Portishead SOS with some other song. Does anyone know where i can find it?
This was the first ending I picked. I knew So Mi was playing me from the start, so I was never going to trust her, but I knew V was caught up in all this crap - the NUSA, the President, So Mi & the sh*t on the other side of the Blackwall. While So Mi mirrors V, someone whose life has ended as violently as a head on collision in slow motion, I can't get behind someone like her, who'll lie to get what they need to survive. It's not about saving the world, it's about surviving. At least with V, or my V, it was all above board. Everyone knew the stakes, everyone knew the deal. I wasn't unsympathetic though & ended her suffering. This is the only ending where Reed actually grows as a person as well and comes to understand his faults and that hard truths cut both ways and for that, it is my favourite.
Love the live wallpaper. Where did you get it? Also, excellent mix! Edit: Found a very similar one in Wallpaper Engine! For some reason it doesn't have as much of a fog/smoke effect as this video has, but I love how it includes Never Looking Back.
recently i ended this dlc, and i decided to side with reed and then not let her rest, at the moment i thought it was the best, since reed had a guaranteed cure for everyone and songbird wouldn't give up on life, but, now i'm starting to think i made a huge mistake, since well, i made her a prisoner of the NUSA again, but... i don't know, some day this would stop maybe myers dies or something, anyway, love your music videos man, they are incredible
Great mix. Do you happen to know what song plays in the "Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty - Official Trailer" released 5 months ago? I have been trying to find it for hours.
So mi deserved it. She made choices like V did and Silverhand and everyone else. Aint gonna sympathise her. Also lets not forget that she also betrayed us and V shared a similar fate as her.
Songbird use V to achieve her goal, she was lying to him and she was not totally honest with him. In fact V love songbird but his will to survive prevails, this is why I think cannon V will choose Reed's path to maximize his chance to live. V love songbird but he love life more. My corpo V was human, sensitive to songbird's situation but in the end he understand that songbird was going crazy so in pain he set songbird to Myers. I think my V is one of the most realistic V's lore. P.S : Sorry for my English, It's not my native language😅 😅😅
@@Relic2077 "Songbird use V to achieve her goal, she was lying to him" but she told V the truth in the end right before her goal. She did not need to do this. This destroys that argument. For you to give her to myers means that you had to cross a line that song never did which is giving her a chance. You lie to her twice. Out of the very same delusion that reed succumbs to. The idea that as long as she is "alive" its good. Or you become a true monster and get the cure for yourself not even allowing her to die. she tells you the truth and evens the playing field in killing moon. She saves you from the cerberus in somewhat damaged while asking you to kill her. But you do not. You have to be a monster in the cure ending. A perfected songbird who will do anything to survive. The songbird in the game does not desire to live as much as you do.
@@lostvayne9146 I like your reasoning. But we have to admit it, canonically, V would give songbird to Reed for the cure. It is the ultimate goal for V to survive and Reed, Myers, FIA and NUSA... Man, they kept their promise to get the cure for V, not So-mi. It is sad to to sell Songbird to NUSA but she was a threat with blackwall's power. She must be arrested for what she did. But in the end, Reed was the only way to follow for V.
Hey, man. Was playing Cyberpunk yesterday and done the Dirty Biz gig, not sure what track it is, but there was a pretty neat ambient ost when I confronted/after I killed those two BD makers. Wondering if you could point me to it or make that an ambience? Thanks!
She can pay lip service to victimhood as much as she wants: the moment she started exploiting the lives of others, some of which were genuinely attempting to help her out at great risk to themselves, and directly ruined their lives in her attempt to get away from it all, she was playing the exact same game as the people she villainizes. They all deserve one another, and everything coming to them. Just pick your preferred team, even if it's none of them, no big loss either way.
I always deny song bird to the NSU aka always kill hear since they probably just fry her remaining personality after cno and use her body simply as a gute way sever.
Nobody besides V ever attempted to genuinely help her out. How much more has the game to bend out of its way to explain that? And I mean if someone’s V is a complete selfish Ahole than not even them.
@@Rumx1412 Funny, someone must not have read the data shards in Phantom Liberty. Myers and arguably Hansen had it coming, but V and yes Reed, along with untold hundreds of other people caught in the crossfire of her Blackwall shenanigans, did not and were nowhere near the only people she actively went out of her way to fuck over because it was conveniently expedient at the time. Don't seem to notice that the game is doing its best to try and convince you to get wrapped around her finger so it's somewhat of a mixed route to take when she inevitably screws you over, and far too many people are too quick to jump on the "I want to send my robo-waifu victim to the moon just like David!" because she's pretty and people hurt her, while ignoring the plethora of signs strewn about (but not directly focused on) that she's absolutely no different from the pit of snakes she chose to jump into, rather than take her chances with facing the consequences of pissing off several corporations when she was younger, something V absolutely can and does. "Complete selfish asshole" indeed for not being a doormat to a manipulative borg well past her expiration date and spilling Blackwall corruption everydamnwhere she goes. Gimmie a fucking break. You be honest with how many people would eat that plate of shit with a smile if it was Smasher's photogenic mug looking back at you while saying "loljk about the saving your life thing".
@@thant0sI wonder where the BlackWall A.I began and the person ends. She is suffering from BlackWall A.I the moment you meet her as you save the president. I honestly could never trust her no matter how genuine. By the time she became a Netrunning Borg she is basically beyond the point of no return. Everyone wants her and wants to use her as a BlackWall gateway. It doesn't matter who you pick she's playing the same game she's trying to leave.
Alright I am sick of this. Reed is evil. He is the villain and scumbag and So Mi is the victim. Meyrs and Reed forced her to do these things. This is their fault. I am sick of people who hates her because these people thinks they are so mature. If they were mature then they would never play in games from Rockstar Games like Read Dead. GTA. Never played or at least they would never like characters from their games. Rockstar are scumbag sexist towards females in games. That's are facts. Mature people don't adore disgusting characters like Kate McRearry from GTA 4. Niko Bellic. Mallorie. Patricia from GTA 5. Tilly from RDR 2 and others. They don't feel bad for these characters. They don't feel bad for Ellie. That's what mature people do. If you hate So Mi but you feel bad for tomboys characters then you are bad people and like I said in all games So Mi is third female character I actually felt bad for. Alright four including female V but expects them I felt only bad for Amicia and North. Every other female character with so-called tragic backstory like Ellie from the last of us is disgusting and I hate them.
Depends on what you think is important to you in Phantom Liberty. Myers wants to reunify the States. Her intentions are clear. You are giving her a 3rd generation warfare nuke if the NUSA doesn't have any already if you give her So Mi. In that same note the NUSA cures you for your support to their cause. Not a bad deal for some. However So Mi is indeed a victim of her hubris and the FIA. Her penetration of the Black Wall means rouge A.I are tearing her apart and the she's become too valuable for anyone to let her go. If you believe after multiple consecutive betrayals of everyone around her is forgivable then sending her to the moon is the best choice. Even though we don't really know what they want with her on the moon.
Also lots of games have a very bias writers that only believe what they write is truly morally correct. When they see you hating on their characters they get confused because they believe they are morally superior. So Mi in Cyberpunk is complex and actually Human. There's no political bend to her other than she's basically been screwed over by big government.
So Mi deserves better. Games had so many female characters who are really scumbag like Madison Paige from Heavy Rain. Max Caulfield from Life is Strange but people adored them ignoring the fact how toxic and evil they are. So Mi is easily one of the best.
you can make your protagonist an absolute evil, but people will still root for them, because you justify their every action through different motivations. it's how storytelling works. Songbird is not a protagonist = some people like her, some hate her. if she was the main character, then all of her betrayals and shit would be justified by majority of the fan-base no matter what.
Does she though...? Sure, she is one of the best written characters - and that is why we can have these endless discussions. But for every argument of her being good, you can present one that offsets it in full. My Nomad V empathizes with her longing for life, for freedom; understand, that you cannot judge a person confined in a golden cage for one teenager mistake. My Streetkid V sees her as a person who, posessing such power at her hands, could have said "no" multiple times in the past years, probably avoiding a lot of the damage she did to others and suffered herself. Instead, she sold out to FIA either for personal gain or because she was afraid to face the consequences of her previous mistakes; as a result, she chose to betray multiple times the ones closed to her, because she tried to avoid a price of her past wrongdoings, but only kept piling them up. I also acknowledge that V has no right to judge her 😅, being oh so much willing to down a whole AV just to get one guy (basically an equivalent of all the human losses of the SFO crash), crash the Arasaka parade (basically an equivalent of the Stadium shotout) or storm the Arasaka tower (basically an equivalent of the NCX massacre). So, yeah, there's that. Might be nihilistic, but for the humankind the best ending of CP2077 would be V heeding Silverhand's first words and choosing "the path of the least resistance" at the start of Act2
