The way the song kicked in when David was freefalling with Lucy after she managed to snap him out of Cyberpsycho-mode long enough to have a heartfelt final conversation with him BROKE ME. Like... it still hurts.
The thing is we have to find our own Lucy our own David if that’s what you’re into we as humans need a partner believe it or not people search for something they aren’t sure about
used to bop this while driving in nc like "damn what a good song", and now im just gonna be crying driving out to the middle of the badlands to stare at the sky.
"You didn't take me to the moon, but you were there with me." "You were right. David reached the top of Arasaka Tower." "I regret not finishing our conversation." "You were the only family I ever had."
I'm glad I took it like nothing. I've been through to much tragedies, but still very sad nonetheless. Very sad scenario. Poor David...... a young homie just wanting to live right, forced into bullshit.
This song hits so much harder after finishing Edgerunners. Beautiful show even though we all knew how it would end. I got into Cyberpunk 2077 a month ago and I love it to pieces!
@@jonathanlanders1597 lmao bro i feel the exact same bruh i want more like i’m actually feeling like shit cuz it’s over bruh i just can’t i gotta reply cyberpunk again dude that show was so good
I WAS SO ANYGRY. they use it every time ur like awhh that's cute they are bonding in this night city even though its terrible and THEY DO THAT GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Just finished EdgeRunner and I loved it. This has been one of my favourite songs of the game since I played it back in 2020 and hearing it in the show elevated the feels so much.
I thought they used the song in the show cause it was a good song recognizable from the game. If you hear the lyrics it has nothing to do with Lucy and David's relationship.
@John Calder Probably went out of business with his best customer dead and the XBD editor he had a business relationship zeroed. Either that, or got shanked in an alleyway.
That line hit me hard. It just goes to show how cheap life is in NC. A tragic (yet inevitable) death of a lifelong customer is just simply another cautionary tale that will be ignored by the next kid that thinks he's special. And he says it in such an indifferent way. Not happy, not sad. It just is. That's just how life in NC works
@@warren1078 Isnt it what always happens to dumb kids with big dreams, they get one good implant and don't instantly go nuts they think they are hot shit thinking their body is invincible until they crash and burn. He probably doesn't give a damn, he most likely has seen so many idiots die this way that he tells them not out of obligation anymore, just habit, muscle memory to retain a shred of humanity to avoid going psycho. But i do want to ask, what was organic about David anyways, spine was chrome, extremities and waist chrome as well, at least one if not both eyes, lungs as well, this is some Odysseus ship level stuff, when is he no longer David, without his waist he probably chromed his digestive system, he also most likely chromed his heart so the strain of doing crazy crap didn't kill him, what was left anyways aside from a brain
I've heard that edgerunners project was started around 2019. Could be that it was made for anime then used in proper spots in game, that was released first
I like to assign this track as a theme song to my usual, Streetkid Single Fem V playthroughs. Specially as I like to end by giving control to Johnny. No happy endings in this city for people like us.
David kept his promise to his mom by making it to the top of Arasaka, He kept his promise to Maine by inheriting his fists, and he kept his promise to Lucy by getting her to the moon. When I realized this I couldn't help but shed a tear...
The tragedy is that David like others never really communicated their real dreams and feelings. His mom wanted him safe and to realize his potential. Lucy wanted no harm to come to David and to be with him far away from the horrors of the system symbolized as the moon. Maine didn't expect David to follow him and wanted him to stand down from the life, but he stepped up because he was David's father in the end and David is a wunderkind character. Rebecca also loved David and her dream became to make David happy and to keep him from the edge despite him not loving her back romantically. So the end hits even harder - each of our dreams are hollow if they don't bring along your loved ones so the dreams we tell ourselves and each other are oftentimes lies.
@@VictorGabriel-uh8ne David realized his dream, he wanted to live his life on his terms. and in the end he lived and died on his own choices. he didn't care about becoming a legend he just wanted to be free of others dreams or plans for him. be his mother's dream of a corpo life, arasakas test subject, or even escaping with lucy to the moon those were not his dreams.
@@devonkim6845 Well put. Its also why i love the presentation. It teach us to be open and said it honestly when we wanted something. Which is irony because im the type to seldom communicate what i want lol. But can relate very much to David.
@Whitout1 god there's nothing more i hate in this game, save games could be corrupt and whole quest chains could get bugged but this just pisses me off so much haha
@@Zaefnyr I was getting so fucking mad about all the gigs everyone calls you for cause every level you unlock new gigs and ontop of that when you go to an area for the first time you get more calls introducing you to rando fukwads but now I'm level 50 street cred and been everywhere I don't get calls from anyone so I can finally relax without someone blowing my phone up every 2 minutes.
The moment V and SONGBIRD are traveling to the spaceport and you turn on the radio ,then this song is start playing. I already know I'll be with her until the end. BEST EMOTIONAL MOMENT IN THE GAME.
its crazy that back in 2021 this song was just a simple NORMAL song but in 2022 its a song that has left millions of people with unrecoverable emotions
@@TheParez no it doesn't. There just wasn't anything to assign this song to that would evoke emotions. Back in 21 this was just a normal soundtrack song. 22? Became the anthem of edgerunners
@@Akuzhir you just voiced your own opinion how you viewed/assigned this song. Just because some songs/tracks become popular doesnt mean they arent being listened to b4??? get your head out of your ass.
Sad thing is, I can't even see the moon clearly anymore. I think I did something to my eyes by staring at screens so much, so now it looks blurry. I need long distance glasses now, but it doesn't mean I still can't try
Even before Edgerunners this song stuck out as a really great pick for Cyberpunk thematically. A real, yearning heart buried beneath a digital, polished shell that still calls out from under it.
Perfect description. Even before Edgerunners, it was my favorite song, and the reason I always set the radio to 98.7 Body Heat FM. My first time driving through the city at night with this on the radio is one of my favorite memories from the game.
I'm not ashamed to say I cried at the end of the show. David kept his promise to Lucy and she made it to the moon, and for a moment she saw David as what she remembers his happiest. I'm not going to be emotionally okay for a while after this
@@mondsgesandter when Lucy kissed him to get rid of his cyberpsychosis mid air while the lyric:” you know you didn’t lose your self control” plays, literally fucking chills
Yeah, rare for anime adaptations to western stuff like this to be really good AND canon. Take the trigger episode of starwars visions for example... no clue if those are canon but trigger didnt even try to contain themselves to the internal world while with this you can tell they had a MUCH bigger respect for the source and stuff
@@HG-bh2gj that and of I'm not mistaken the david Martinez in the afterlife was around as early as 1.0... could have been a fake thing I've heard as I never played 2077 that early but yes it is very much canon
A year later and it still makes me feel like going to bed. not sleeping, not closing my eyes, just sitting there, thinking about how bad that show hit me in the feels.
This song relates to David and Lucy’s relationship so well it’s hard to believe it was written two years ago for the game. The lyrics basically telling a story of accepting that it’ll never work with someone you really care about, just..damn.
Loved the anime. David was an idiot. That’s why when you pick up the BD in the game it ends with “a cautionary tale David didn’t pick up on, will you?” He thought too much of himself, and he did lose himself. Meeting Lucy again gave him a moment of clarity, but he was already gone before that happened.
@@dogmilk9651 Yep, he destroyed himself trying to fulfill other people’s dreams, exactly what Lucy said she didn’t want to happen. I don’t think he’s an idiot though, I think he bought into the same delusion of success that every edgerunner did. There’s a reason the “happiest” endings for anyone in the game and show is getting the fuck out of Night City. Whether you’re a merc or corpo doesn’t matter. Like Judy said - the city will always win.
That feeling when you're driving, the night falls, and the lights of Night City light up. This song comes on, and you're caught up in the feels and sheer beauty of everything this game has the potential to be. This song is preem af...
Preem indeed. I wish i spent more time just cruising and exploring the city. Finished 1st playthrough at about 60hrs. Planned on doing more after main story. Doesn't feel right for me now, chapter is closed for this character. 2nd playthrough it will be.
@@zerotrig8331 Nah bruh it was just the doctor saying ur broken arm is healed, then when ur card declines it played a random viral video of someone getting beat up to imply the doc broke ur arm. Whoever told you that is fucked in the head
Even now, after all the time this song still hits hard af. For everyone it hits different: somebody is in tears, somebody is in a sad smile, BUT not a single person is emotionless. Pure masterpiece combination of a song + trigger moment. Giant thanks for everyone who worked on this, they are a giant experts of their job.
David ending up fulfilling his promises to everyone. The sad part is how he fulfilled them. His mom wanted him at the top of Arasaka Tower, and he made it there; in pieces, with hardly any sanity left. He inherited Maine's hands like he swore, but he didn't realize that Maine never wanted David to throw away his life by being an Edgerunner. He got Lucy to the moon, but what hurt the most is that by then, Lucy didn't care about the moon; she cared about Daivd, and so her being on the moon meant nothing if David wasn't there with her.
The irony is that Lucy is now living out David's dream. His last wish was for her to live and go on to accomplish her own dreams. It's perhaps a hollow victory, but as we saw from the way Lucy's own dream changed, perhaps she will eventually go on to find fulfillment and even happiness, completing David's wish.
@@Ric_Vicious And we never did. Even literally facing against a moon station with a pistol, with Never Fade Away echoing which actually made me emotional. Damn.
Funny because 90% of the comments associate this song with a sad feeling, but me, I associate it with the beautiful feeling I got booting the game back in 2021 and seeing all the neon lights in Kabuki while this song is playing. I was blown away.. So even after watching the anime and crying so much in the ending, the first thing I remember when I hear this song is that great feeling that this game gave me and continues to give me.
The funny thing is Even before Edgerunners, back in 2020 during my first playthrough of 2077, this song always gave me a “sad but happy” feeling. Whenever this song plays on the radio in game, I just stop driving and take in the scenery. Then Edgerunners comes along and just propels this song to the moon.
@@prismanic24 One can only hope she moves on with David still in her heart. Also, hopefully she finds out that Smasher is dead after V is finished with him
Night City remembers people for how they died and not what they did before that. It's safe to say David easily goes down as one of the most legendary cyberpunks in Night City. He battled MilTech, Arasaka, and it took Adam Smasher to finally put him down. The best part? David died human.
0:39 Hits especially hard because it makes me think about how David didn’t lose himself in the end. Went out with a bang and a smile on his face, like a legend, while simultaneously keeping his promise to Lucy to make her dream come true and get her to the moon… Man… can’t believe I’m actually depressed and teary over a group of fictional characters.
I don’t think david was able to fulfill any of the promises he made, he was too busy trying to fulfill other peoples dreams and conpletely destroyed himself in the process
@@hiidenkiuas He wasn't going to be able to save Lucy without getting into that skeleton once she was kidnapped, and he wasn't planning on living for much longer regardless. Once Ep.8 started with him killing an innocent woman and continued with Lucy leaving him yet again without explanation as he's thinking they should probably separate, he's resigned himself to fight just a bit longer to be able to get her out of Night City if it's the last thing he can do. It's similar to how his mother only worked and hustled her ass off to try and make sure he could make it as a Corpo.
i desperately need to find more music like this. something about the vocal effect on the chorus makes this hit so different, it feels like a song that would be popular in the 2070s,
It would have been amazing that when David went to the Afterlife, he would said his drink to Claire. It is in the game, but we didnt saw it saying it in the show.
The core of the story of the protagonist of Cyberpunk Edgerunners fits this song to well. You will never forget this song after watching the show. It's too beautiful, meanwhile too sad
-Shows up out of nowhere -Anime overall advertises the game and does it in a really good way -Characters are nicely written -References to the actual game -Makes you start loving the characters -Kills almost all of them, including the main character in a span of 5 episodes -Gives you depression -Refuses to elaborate any further
bro im like on the part where I KNOW Maine is gonna die i KNOW hes going to, and i refuse to because i treat Maine as a father figure, and i cant be having that taken away from me
Debatable. Lucy was just tits and talking about missing the main character. Despite them having one positive interaction which was fake and a plot to betray him. Just saying Lucy and Mc went on no dates. No real development. Same thing with the girl and her brother, no developments before he dies to show the rivalry. The short lady has the most development by far most were half cooked.
Honestly, I feel like this show breathed new life into the Cyberpunk world as a whole. I’m so happy that more people are discovering it. It’s fucking beautiful. We are all Chooms ❤
@@nervun8097 the gameplay must be a far cry better than on launch because I picked up the game after watching the anime and am blown away by how much fun it is
The game was a broken hot mess of bugs, glitches, it was unplayable at times, false promises so many false promises on features. So when the game came out people shat on it because they lied. Even to this day there’s so many false promises that still haven’t been delivered but the game definitely is good just not great like it should’ve been. It rightfully deserves praise for them fixing it but they did kinda burn lots of peoples trust
@@imbadatgames568 gameplay is still the same as launch, stiff and janky in comparison to industry standards, with RPG mechanics so lacklustre they've went on to scrub any mention of the game being an "RPG" a few months before release from all storefronts and called it an "open-world, action-adventure" instead. Only recently have they decided to describe their game as an RPG again (as of feburary 2022, over a year after the initial release). No amount of tear-jerking scenes from an anime can recover the credibility that CDPR used to have.
This song turned into the kind of song you listen to while walking through a neighborhood you used to live in, years later, and have flashbacks of your time back then
Once I went back to my Granddad's house. It had been ages since he'd passed away. A new family lived there. I was walking by it and it was like looking at it over a large chasm. I knew it was the old house, but nothing that made it familiar was there. Even the spirit of the place was gone, if that makes sense. I had tears in my eyes, like I had lost him all over again.
@@shoobzy3431 Smasher even showed him some respect, finishing him off instead of letting him be turned into a construct, like Johnny with Soulkiller/Mikoshi.
I remember playing this game two years ago. Then I heard this song and I thought, "This is kind of sad but a little sweet." Now the anime is out. I'm gonna be real with ya. I lost three people this year and what happened at the end of the series. It just makes it even more tragic. If there is a take away from all of this. If there is away out in a situation, find an exit. No reason to be trapped. I have to do the same. Rest in peace to my cousin, aunt and friend. I'll see you guys someday in the future. Not now or tomorrow. But someday. Good show btw. Never doubt Trigger studios. Edit: Thank you for the comments everyone. I'm still going through it. But My memory with my cousin still lives on. I talk about him all the time now. One of you said I'll see him again. And you are right. I will. Right next to whole bunch of people I've lost in the past. Once again, thank you guys. Life is beautiful sometimes.
My condolences friend, i lost my Grandma, grandpa, uncle and my kitty in a space of 3 months, i know how it hurts, but we'll see them on the flipside someday
🤝 it’s quite a groovy song and it’s definitely got a melancholic sound, to me it feels almost like a post breakup song but you both still have feelings for each other
@@CesorSalad It does feel like a post break up song, But it also feels like a song about a friend who passed away and you're not ready to realize they're gone.
@@darkira2129 I actually have no idea what the anime is about. I like studio trigger, and it looks like it might be like blade runner? A friend of mine just watched it, and she told me whilst crying the show had something about a guy who wants to go to the moon, and a girl who likes getting stepped on.
It's sad to know that David didn't lived up for his dreams. Instead, he lived to fulfil others dreams. Even though it is comforting to see that he reached the top for his mother, kept running for Maine and sent Lucy to the moon. None of this in the end was his dream. It feels like he never had free will to begin with.
That's exactly it. Night City is a city of dreams, except reality never reaches those dreams. You live the dream as much as you can, until it crashes back into reality.
@@xxstar-bluesxx He didn't, he was in control when he was out of meds and got Lucy out. Also Adam said he would make for a good construct at that point, because he proved himself special by overcoming cyberpsychosis, he was just beaten. But alas, he knew it was the time to go out.
@@danielgeronimo5538 Don't think he overcame it. It's just that so many cybernatics have been disconnected from him that the strain on the brain was gone.
“A happy ending here for folk like us, wrong city, wrong people” this was the first anime I’ve ever watched and boy I did not expect it to hit me in the feels the way it did, I really hope this encourages people to give the game another go as it really is one of the most beautiful games as far as characters, lore and story goes in spite of its flaws and initial launch Cyberpunk really is a masterpiece
@@jasonnorton941 oh? So takemura, Evelyn parkers story, Panam and the nomads, the story behind Kerry eurodynes unwillingness to give up samurai... all of it, just nothingburger to you?
@@Ohnoitshohno175 i said 90 percent are shish and you talking about that 10, and nomads are nice but i didnt even remember their names, and because i play as chick with surprise i had a very pleasant date with Judy, which make her more interesting for me
Please do note, that the Characters, and Lore aspect of that, are backed by over 40 years of lore from the Cyberpunk TTRPG Before 2077, we had 2013, 2020, and Red. 3 whole games with their own sets of content, that came before the game, and could be used to fuel the game, I won't say the game sucks, as I have not played it. But I don't think it could stand on its own
@@Daniel-uv6gs It makes defeating Adam Smasher all the more satisfying because you're not just avenging Johnny but also David, Rebecca, and everyone else he's killed.
@@AgentSkidZ Fr, i cant wait to replay the game when they are finished fixing and updating the game. Defeating Adam Smasher is going to be personal next play-through.
Me at the beginning of 2020: "Looks like another year for us, hope it will be a good one!" Me at the end of 2022: "I'm running out of 'it is what it is' to give, fucking stop it already."
The Anime was really something else. Its been a long time since a series hooked me this much and the Story, aesthetics, Animations, music - everything was just so beautiful. The end especially, im still kinda caught in emotions and lost for words - what a great project of Studio Trigger.
Trigger never ceases to amaze really. netflix either goes balls out perfection (Castlevania/Arcane/this) or it's a dumpsterfire. there' are very few middle grounds. But god damn I'll take a terrible bebop run if it gives me something like this.
Me listening to this song before ending edgerunners: "Oh wow! Such a nice song!" Me listening to this song after ending edgerunners: *Crying endlessly.*
He lived as an edgerunner and set an example for generations to follow an unbreakable code and never let NC beat you down into betraying into your humanity and friends. It is the happiest ending you can expect in Night City
In a weird way, This song has a sort of peace to it. Not just through David, but through V as well. After everything they been through, V and David are free.
@@kingofheavymetal also cause of the final episode of the anime based on this game, called "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners" which i wont spoil, but its a 10/10 ending and made me cry like i was watching angel beats again.
If the game had a reanimation service working in tiers you can subscribe to in game,with the tier representing how much health you regain an their skin/appearance i would have played more than 20 hrs of cyberpunk before ditching it. Soundtracks great tho
I almost wonder if that's a glitch, I don't think it is though, seriously, mundane news reports shouldn't interrupt songs, they should come on after them like in GTA.
@@TheVillainInGlasses yup; most of the time my game seems to play night city or pon pon shit, or something else. But this always seems to be playing when I walk by a laundromat. Or rather, when I hear it I stop and find it... and there’s the wash.
I have never and don't plan to ever fast travel in this game😅...I drive all the time, helps with immersion and I just find myself enjoying the long drives xD Also, you picked Judy? You are an individual of culture 😎
David, the boy who had no dreams lived to fulfill the dreams of his loved ones. David really deserved better, he was just a normal boy.... but at the same time special. Wrong city, Wrong people
let's be real David did some terrible things by the end of the show... Getting smashed by Smasher should've been karma for all he did.. but man it still hurts
@@jooot_6850 True. Literally the wisest people in his life were Lucy, Rebecca and his ripperdoc telling him to chill on the chrome. He didn't listen. For Maine, it was Dorio and she would've done the same for David had she survived Maine's recklessness.
@@jooot_6850 Terrible things? Prior to killing that woman, he did everything in order to protect his crew and keep them going. And even killing that woman wasn't particularly his fault, he was undergoing cyberpsychosis by that point. You have to keep in mind that when Maine died, David was only 17. I dunno about you but I'd sure as hell mess up as much as he did if that happened to me at 17.
@@fjlsfljsalfkjasdflka on top of that, he felt guilt for the woman and his death was on behalf of those that he lost and feels guilt over and his death also allowed Lucy and Falco to be free with more than enough money between them while ensuring that Lucy got her dream. he's not perfect but he wasn't a complete monster and did his best to keep it like that even in his final moments.
It took 10 episodes to change this song from a fun and cyberpunked-up track to a trigger track that sets off the emotions of betrayal, loss, and heartbreak. Bravo, Trigger. You really lived up to your studio name!
This song is a perfect mixture of futuristic vibe of CP2077 and the atmoshpere of the 80', especially the very begining of the song. It was used so well in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
The ending of Edgewalker really reinforced that my decision to walk into the front door of Arasaka with a gun in my hand was the right decision to make.
