Missable Details in the Arasaka/Devil Ending 

Saburo: breaks all possble laws of life, buddhism, bushido and everything else by coming back to life, literally posseses his son like a demon Takemura: neat

The guy who asks you to sell your soul to "live forever" is literally named Hellman.

Johnny cringing in the background while V bows to Hanako is great😂

Rogue and Saul insta-die to Smasher like chumps. Weak. Goro taunts Smasher for the entire fight and survives. "The beast is angry!"

I'm surprised you missed the significance of Takamera dressing in all white. In Japan, white is worn at funerals and is the color associated with death.

One thing to note, is that Takemura says Hanako forgot about you, but immediately gets desperate and lets it slip that she called him to convince you. Also if you leave the station, Hanako calls you personally to give you jobs lol. They never forgot what you did to them. Whether or not they are grateful or just see you as an asset is another matter though.

At the end Takemura calling V "V-san" is very meaningful in sum with the earlier bow to V. They selected very carefully when, where and if Takemura would display any respect for V.

I didn't know you could talk to Jackie's engram at the end. That's a disturbing, cruel end for Jackie, and might just be one of the game's best, truly cyberpunk moments

Takemura is one of my favorite characters, but I just hate the only ending that makes him happy is what pisses off every other character

God I didn’t even realize you COULD backstab Panam or fail to save Saul. Those texts and that phone call from Panam are brutal. Just gonna imagine those are modded content, sheesh!

I went on the full revenge path with Corpo V. I like to think the Devil Ending will allow V to chase after Saburo and the Arasaka family Altered Carbon style.

The meaning, the delivery and sudden change in background music when Johnny says "Shame you chose wrong" really hit me.

You can hear Johnny’s heart snapping when you don’t forgive him. He really wanted to do good. And then and there the only person left who cared about him hated him. He was ready to go.

I cried so much after I got the devils ending on my first and very honest playthrough. I was hyperfocused on just winning and living and didn't take the time to slow down and enjoy night city and connect deeply with the other characters I met. It was heartbreaking watching this ending happen to a character I put so much of myself into. This game taught me a real life lesson, it will always have a special place in my heart for that. Edit: Fantastic video! Love the analysis 👍

Seeing goro beging v to reconsider makes me so sad. He really cares about v

I have over 570 hours in the game, I never had the heart to choose the Devil ending, especially after seeing what they did to our boy Jackie, and now seeing how Johnny reacts at certain times I know I'll never be able to opt for this ending. It really makes you feel like you've betrayed all of your loved ones and all those who cared for you, and in the end - betraying yourself. Selling yourself short to the big corporation thus selling your soul :(

The gut punch I felt when I realized that Yorinobu was the good guy and I was the bad guy, oh my god. I was shell shocked. This ending was definitely the most heartbreaking.

This was really above and beyond the call of duty. Even with the debug menu, this must have been a lot of replaying and save game management. I have 300 hours invested in the game (about 100 per lifepath) and I completely missed all of the small details, like the photo being covered up by the pen or the cup. Outstanding investigation!

4:47 I stillremember the "twitchy" leg of Jackie. At first I thought it was a bug, but the animators actually tried to imitate the real nervous tic. Attention to detail. Also the way he leaned in when the Fixer started tot explain the heist plan. Very real behaviour.

Seeing the way they butchered not only Jackie's body, but also his mind really actually shook me. Hearing his old lines repeated out of context makes soulkiller really seem like the worst thing that could happen to a human.

I think you're right in Hanako controlling/puppeteering the Jackie engram. The more I listened to it, the more it made sense. Hanako is panic-searching through Jackie's memories to try to try to find responses to V in order manipulate/guilt V further into helping them. Since Jackie didn't get a Mikoshi upload before the full death of his brain like Saburo did, of course she basically has to pilot his memories/pieces of Jackie's mind, instead of them being autonomous. I mean, he was dead long before he was hit with Soulkiller, its a miracle they got anything. The dialogue choice that says "Seen enough. Its not him" sealed it for me, as V seeing through Hanako's bullshit

I think playing Corpo V is one of the best ways to play the game Starting as this heartless employee of Arasaka, and gradually taking more and more jobs, tasks and gigs to help people, originally just for the money, but eventually because V has grown as a person, especially through the romantic options side quests, just to turn back to Arasaka for help at the end of the game in a final attempt to live.

I just realized, at 34:52 of the vid when Hellman says "fate is a fickle mistress, isn't she? You spend your life fighting something only to become that very same thing." The implication is that he's talking about Yorinobu, but that he could actually indirectly be talking about V too. It's a double meaning. Rebelling against Arasaka makes sense in any lifepath but it's especially more powerful if you start out in the Corpo lifepath. It's here you start up believing in them, and then you get your eyes opened when you find yourself at the wrong end of Arasaka's gun when you get double-crossed because of your involvement with Jenkins and the Frankfurt data leak. Then you do the heist against Arasaka and meet Johnny and in a way "rebel" against Arasaka... and if in the end of it all, you choose to get blinded again in the corporate ideals, cooperating with Hanako and selling your soul to the Devil, you've become one with the very thing you sought to destroy.

People criticized this game for lifepaths not mattering and choices, yet small things like Johnny trying to take your body for not being nice to him and V blaming him for every time he starts dying is small but still a result of your choices, I also like the unique dialogue each lifepath had. as it made things more interesting.

I just completed the devil ending. I actually cried as I finished it. To have my Corpo V go through the maddening cycle over and over again was disheartening. I couldn't stop thinking about what Johnny had said about me "Choosing wrong." I felt it, but I knew the Corpo in V wouldn't think that. At least not right away. By the end of it, I decided that V would want to just go home. Rather be free that stuck in an Arasaka lab waiting for the day that a body could maybe be procured. This ending is dark, and emotional. I loved experiencing it at least once.

50:41 man, this was a depressing line. The fact that hanako has forgotten you after you were instrumental in bringing her and saburo back to power speaks volumes about how disposable V truly was to her

God I never noticed Johnny double face palm when you bow to Hanako, that’s fantastic

This version of never fade away always gets me in the feels

It's incredible how intricate this ending is, how many details shift depending on your choices. The unfortunate thing is that those details are not visible to players unless they do what you did and painstakingly record all of the variations. It's frustrating that players see this as a game where your choices don't matter, because they really do, but the game doesn't hit you over the head with it -- it doesn't outright tell you "hey, this character is treating you differently because of X!". But I love how the characters and outcome subtly shift and adapt to how you decide to play your V.

I just started the video to skim through this. But I was just engaged in it and actually watched the whole video. Impressive work in finding these. Great Video.

This ending also suits a playthrough where your characters trying to become an immortal netrunner, and if you're employed by arasaka and they value you / your skills enough just like Adam smasher they just might put you back in a chip in a new body

I like that the guard you meet at the end of the sell of your soul ending is likely the same Hajime Taki that you and Jackie were supposed to be meeting in Konpecki as part of your cover. He was one of Yorinobou's main underlings, and now he's working for Saburo. So the advice he gives you is just as much for himself, since he's basically in the same boat. In addition, the name Hajime is probably taken from the Meiji Restoration samurai Hajime Saito. He was the last surviving member of the Shinsengumi, the last samurai unit to serve the shogun, but ended up joining the Imperial Police Force after the shogunate ended. So the advice Hajime Taki gives you could just as easily come from Hajime Saito.

I almost feel like the copro path and the devil ending was the a true cyberpunk storyline. Like, it just felt right. It felt cohesive and it felt like it couldve been ripped straight from a novel or movie. It'd survive in hollywood just as easily as it would being played at home on a PC or console. Just my thoughts tho

I keep saying Cyberpunk is what Mass Effect promised to be in how much the game reacts to roleplaying choices and your videos are the best at demonstrating this. I started noticing that the game felt very different with each playthrough starting from my second one but didn't know before watching videos of yours that it was because of dialogue tree variations rippling throughout the whole game changing my interpretation of scenes and relationships.

I wonder how the clan reacts when you go to that side mission where the alcecaldos are dealing with those dudes in the city after Saul died

If you were familiar with Cyberpunk lore before 2077 you knew that Yori was probably the good guy all along :P It is a shame that you don't see any of his stuff playing out unless you pick the Arasaka ending.

So, I'll be honest, going through it, as fucked as Arasaka is, I noticed that the tests they put you through show genuine progress in helping V, I noticed it in V's vision returning to normal. So I stuck it out with the tests, seeing that V was actually doing better. Hearing Takemura offer Save Your Soul to V was definitely something I took up though, cause while with Hellman, it was a corpo throwing you a bone, with Takemura, the guy wants to see you alive, he doesn't want to lose his friend. I chose to enter Mikoshi, to make sure Takemura didn't have to go through the same pain V did when losing Jackie. Takemura was the character I bonded with most in my playthrough, and he ended up as the guy who was my real choom all things considered. Guy gave me genuine hope of my V having a future beyond the final battle with Arasaka, surviving the blaze of glory. And hey, he owes me some real food.

Yeah, this ending really angered me, only because Johnny was right in the end, Saburo only cared for himself, and would do anything to continue living, and Johnny believed in living free, meaning dying also, which Saburo took from him (death on your own terms) by using soul killer. Then only once Yorinobu had been stopped, they take his right away too, and Saburo keeps subjugating the world, in his son's body, while you die. Even if you start a war by the other endings, I personally believe this was the most manipulative end. I really hate the fact that "the fool" your tarot card was so very accurate here. At least if you get to know Johnny better, he ends up telling you exactly what his motives are, and thus where you both stand, and also, as crazy as it sounds, the other three endings really boil down to the same thing; you are dying, it is your choice to fade away, live on with Johnny in your place, or end your life as a bonafide night city legend, fighting the corporate scumbags who turned the world into this desolate, lifeless husk of earth that you see, those whom stole your very right to die, fighting till the very end.

Honestly, while canonically the "worst" ending, going with the arasaka route you'll get the most fleshed out ending imo. Feels by far the most fulfilling, best thought out and not that cheap compared to all the others. It's more of a sad ending, makes sense in the Cyberpunk universe.

Love that ur still finding new stuff in the game .. I just started a 4th playthrough, i dont know I can’t get enough of cyberpunk right now, no other recent games have really interested me so I’ve just been sticking with cyberpunk, and the amount of freedom u have and variations in how the game can play out makes it feel warranted for me to do so many play throughs

Wow, this deserves way more views. I had no idea there were this many variations in the ending. Also possibly another detail: At 32:34 you get a relic malfunction the moment V mentions Saburo as being the one who strikes fear into people. Maybe this can be interpreted as Johnny being afraid of Saburo since the soulkiller incident.

Wow. I had no idea the level of work and nuance that went into the endings. Incredible. I wish I'd got to see the corpo ending! Great, thorough video.

Its funny how Saburo kind of respects you more when you disrespect him

Terrific breakdown of this ending. I finished my corpo V/Devil ending not too long ago and it was honestly soul-crushing. Really wonderful to see what would've happened had I chosen different dialogue options or story events. The Jackie/Hanako scene was particularily interesting.Thanks so much for doing these!

That was beautiful. I did the devil ending once. Really depressing.

Wow, sat through the whole video and learnt a lot, safe to say I need to do a corpo playthrough ASAP.

Johnny and Yorinubo had the same goal in the end. If we waited a day, Johnny's goals would have been realised. Just another sad twist.

This was a fantastic deep dive. I usually balk at watching hour long videos, but I was glued to my seat. I beat Cyberpunk for the first time last year and I still find myself constantly thinking about the story - it was enrapturing. And I so greatly appreciate seeing other's takes on it. It was really great to see all the little details and variations between different choices. Thank you so much for sharing, and I can't wait to watch more from you. One other little note - I'm not sure if it was intentional, but having different hand/arm cyberware for your Vs made it really easy to follow along with which version/playthrough was the focus in each clip. It was a nice touch, even if it was accidental haha.

thanks for the vid, chum. as an average cyberpunk enjoyer, I appreciate this video, as well as others cyberpunk videos you did. in a long haul for the updates

This is the ending that makes you wanna redo as a blaze of glory ending.

What I could never understand why is it default for V to go back to Night City instead of leaving it after refusing the Arasaka offer if you helped the Nomads as well. They would happily accept you in, which is further evidenced in the calls during the credits. Also I romanced Judy and was pretty shocked that she left the city without me O.O

Amazing videos man, keep em up. I respect the hell out of the amount of work you must've had to put into this

Honestly it made me sad when you had to call your friends and slowly watch them move on without you. Especially Panam and such, they are really worried at first but then later act like you're wasting their time. It Honestly lead me to questioning every friendly characters motives and makes you feel like you're with the devil. Plus being haunted by a disappointed Johnny and being color blind.

The Devil ending is actually the ending that is most closely tied to the lore of the TRPG. All the other endings pretty much just have you as some random murder hobo showing up off the street and causing havoc. The Devil ending puts you right into the middle of the intergenerational conflict between Saburo and Yorinobu and reveals a ton of information that most players who didn't play the TRPG would never be privy to and manages to invert Yorinobu into being the actual hero of the story. It might be the saddest ending of the bunch but in terms of writing is actually the best since it actually uses the setting to make something more than a generic dungeon run.

The thing about the Devil Ending, is that it's the one that gives you the most answers and (arguably) brings the best outcome for the majority of people by limiting any of your friends dying and preventing another Corpo War (which at this point have basically replaced wars between countries). It also makes you realize that in the grand scheme of things...V was/is a nobody. Arasaka/Yorinobu/AdamSmasher/etc. didn't even know who you were, and they didn't even care to hunt you down beyond the initial attempt just after you woke-up in the junkyard. In the end Arasaka Corp. was not even remotely your personal enemy, it was only Johnny who throughout the entire game seemed so driven by personal vendetta that he constantly tried to reinforce the idea of going out in a blaze of glory to take them all down. If anything can be taken away from the Devil Ending, it's that good and evil are relative. As much as we kept being told throughout the entire game by Johnny that Arasaka is pure evil, Hanako still keeps her word, Goro becomes one of your closest and most honorable allies, and you're even given the choice to become a Engram when they realize they can't save your life through conventional means. (With even line.1 of the agreement stating that you can legally terminate your engram at any point while still alive, in the event you change your mind before you die). I know people say this is the bad/evil ending. But I played a V who took non-lethal/stealth options through much of the game, and helped all his friends by completing all their questlines. In the end I just felt that despite how close I got to Johnny and how much he seemed to change, he still was single-minded in his hatred for Arasaka above literally all-else. Every other ending of wanting to lay siege to Arasaka tower just felt pointless and kind of selfish in the desire to have someone else to blame for events that V technically inflicted on himself. But choosing to side with Hanako felt more like I was trusting in a friend (Takemura), and ended up preventing a war. Plus I felt like the Devil ending is the one where it's 100% on your own terms. Johnny didn't get to influence my decision, none of V's friends had to risk their lives to fight a battle that wasn't their's, and V gets to learn WHY this all happened (closure to unanswered questions).

I thank you so much ❤️ I love the story and all the world building in Cyberpunk and seeing this video gave me some goosebumps. Thank you so much, arigato gozaimasu

thank you very much for this detailed and well made video, i appreciate the effort you put into this vid and hope to see more in the future.

Yo, thank you so much for this. Great eye for detail

I find it hard to believe that this ending is as bleak as people think it is. V was already at the mercy of Arasaka the second they started operating on him to remove the relic. If they really wanted to “imprison” him they would have gone and done it as apposed to giving V the opportunity to return to earth.

Ahhh, this video was great. It reminded me of the first ending I got that I absolutely LOVED. I roleplayed a corpo who gets a taste of freedom and goes all for what Silverhand is offering but at the very end is tempted by the return to a corpo lifestyle. Like she inevitably falls back to her true nature. Only in the epilogue she realizes what she had lost but learns from it and decides to go back to earth to live the rest of her life -maybe fix some of it-. Her singing "Never fade away" was absolutely perfect. You can say many things about Cyberpunk but the writing and storycrafting was absolutely amazing! Thank you for showing all the incredible alternatives to this path.

This is your best video yet can't wait for the panam ending variations video

Awesome. Much enjoed. Thanks for your efforts you had put into making this video

Hi OD, Thank you for the excellent CP77 videos in 2021, looking forward to more this year, it's going to be interesting with CP. Have a Great 2022.

I left this video in an open tab a day ago and just finished it. Throughout all my playthroughs, the ending choice was always the hardest for me.

This video is really great, love it

In other videos they'd say Goro is the Devil that lured you into this trap and have no intention to help V. But after seeing this again, Goro really does want to help and this is the only way he knows. As he once said, you can't teach old dog new tricks, Arasaka has been his life, even now he has fallen from grace, and really hates the Arasakas, this is all he knows and all he can do. I said he hates them now because he no longer speaks their name with respect.

thanks for making these videos. appreciate the effort - as I could not put in the time to experience all these possible pathways.

Thorough job. Well appreciated.

Really cool to see more lore on my favorite ending

Goro is a bro, and the only reason to side with Arasaka. That said I wish Hanako had been a corpo romance option.

Excellent video.

I absolutely love The Devil ending. It was my ending in my first playthrough, because I wanted to live at all costs, and it was framed as the better option compared to a suicide mission with Rogue or a suicide mission with Panam. Now, after finishing the game a second time and getting all the endings, I love The Devil even more. All of the other endings feel so hollow. With Panam, you escape NC with all your friends, but have a few months to live. With Rogue, you either surrender your body to Johnny or get trapped in another suicide mission against the Crystal Plaza (still serving the corps), and lose all your friends to boot. Only in The Devil do you have the opportunity to live. You either live for your short time, but with no Johnny and no regrets, or you have the opportunity to be revived later. It's also shown through all the dialogue that Arasaka does seem to be genuine in wanting to take care of V. Hanako makes multiple promises that V will be taken care of; even Saboru promises to take care of her for aiding him. Hanako definitely seems deceptive in ways, but you did a huge favor to her by exposing Yorinobu's betrayal; I don't feel like she takes that deed lightly. I also really don't feel like Saboru would just say something like making sure you're taken care of in a passing manner while actually lying. Saboru always seems to be against foul play and misdirection; it's the core of his ideology, and the whole reason he's willing to go to such great lengths to stop Yorinobu. Also basically everyone on the space station seems to have your best interest at heart. The nurse is a jerk but spends basically a month with you, fixing you. And if you don't throw a tantrum, it actually works. Regardless of whether you end up with Hellman or Takemura, both seem to care about your well-being. Hellman talks frankly, and although he's a pawn for Arasaka, he seems to believe the revival is the best option; not to mention that he's also the leading expert on this whole program, so beyond just following orders, he doesn't have a lot of reasons to lie to you. Takemura can also be seen as a pawn due to his loyalty, but he definitely doesn't have reason to lie to you. He already betrayed the company and backstabbed them so many times, and he has full trust in you, so you know you're not hearing a lie from him; he also is off Saburo's assignment, and while I think he's okay with the resolution, he has even extra reason not to lie to you. Takemura seems to genuinely want you to not die, and is personally upset when you reject the offer. Even the guard seems to think the revival is a good idea; he would make the same choice in your circumstances, even going so far as to say never put full trust in anything; he's a literal third party and even he sees the logic. Of course, you should never trust corps. So it's all possibly an elaborate ruse to lock you into Mikoshi forever. But there are so many steps along the process that insist that this won't happen, all by people who tend to be trustworthy by nature or otherwise whom owe you great debts for the risks you took. And the raw ambiguity of the ending is this bittersweet melancholy that is unrivaled as an ending.

That Conpeki Plaza has the Emperor Tarrot on the wall, should hopefully remind you to stay clear of Arasaka and Takemura.

Bravo. This video is as amazing as the game it is about

What a great game. Issues and all it still managed to make me feel so much. I hope Cyberpunk grows, i need more.

This is one of the best Cyberpunk 2077 videos I have seen. Played thru the games three times with V starting out with different backgrounds and have tried out all the endings I totally agree with this video that this ending is the best crafted one. What’s ironic is that this is also the most depressing and worst ending that V can probably get, excluding the suicide ending of course. I like the Panama’s ending with Judy tagging along the most. But I was hoping there would be an ending where Johnny could still stay in V’s head while the two brains would just stop the blending process and coexist.

I got the feeling V became the next Smasher when he sells his soul, the company using his data to try and make the breakthrough to upload into a body unrelated to the mind they are downloading, much like how Jonny can get full control in the other endings. A believe a DLC like the Sith Lord ending of Force Unleashed 1 would have been interesting; becoming Arasaka’s new enforcer, their personal on hand demon/devil

The Devil ending makes me believe that Hanako doesn’t die in any ending. My theory is that Yorinobu imprisoned Hanako just like in The Devil storyline, so in the Sun or the Star and uses the Arasaka attack as the perfect cover to stage Hanako’s death and take over. Unless of course, Yorinobu takes the next step and kills her himself.

Just discovered your videos! I've spent 400 hours on this game and I'm still learning about it! Thanks for all the work, now I gotta go on a binge of your videos!

Feel like I completly misunderstood Yorinobu. Coundn't tell what he was rambaling about and just assumed he was being a spoiled child. Now I see that he was actually trying to finish what Johnny started by purging Arasaka from the inside even if he could lose everything. Johnny said that even though he blew up Arasaka Tower, he didn't see any effect. One of the responses V had was "there had to be a change somewhere" Now we see that change in the most unlikely place...and we snuffed it out. Combined with roleplaying a streetkid doing anything to survive and ending up as an engram. Just makes the whole story/expirence/memory that much better *Goddamn are there so many interesting layers to Cyberpunk. It just keeps bringing me back*

thats a well made video dude thanks for your effort , i thoroughly enjoyed it

This game is so densely-packed with small, almost unnoticeable reactions to the choices you've made, as well as choices I didn't even know existed. I've really enjoyed the game, but always thought that it was shallow on narrative choice & consequence beyond your starting and ending paths. I was so wrong.

The details that I missed is insane and Mind blowing!

the "san" is used on a person you consider your equal, a person that you respect... if Takemura used "kun" then he would consider V a close friend.

So, from what I can tell from having now seen all the endings, I Believe that the Devil ending, specifically if you do not enter mikoshi, Is the only ending where you survive past the assault on arasaka. The evidence for this is most obvious during the nomad ending, but is also in part stated by Alt, and alluded to with dialogue spoken by Johnny, and Jackie. Allow me to explain. Alt says herself, when talking to johnny, that she is not Alt cunningham, and is merely an AI that wears her memories and likeness like a mask. This can be interpreted to mean that soulkiller, and in fact all engrams, are copies of the same AI, but with different responses and mannerisms coded in, sort of like a script with pre-programmed responses, but in this case, pre-programmed weights on decision making as well, which would make alt, johnny, saburo, and jackie, at best as individual as Delamain, and at worst brendan the talking vending machine, which is why I think their sideplots are almost unavoidable, despite not being relevant to the plot. Imagine this, soulkiller downloads memories, speech patterns, and opinions, then takes a blank AI with no opinions of it's own, and transplants the opinions and memories and speech patterns into the AI. This means that given time, the AI could recognize it's independence from those memories and mannerisms, and make the choice to reject them. This is exactly what the AI alt has done. This concept can be further proven, with the comparison to Jackie, and Johnny. When jackie is converted, everything he says is just repeated dialogue from earlier in game, but then look at johnny? How much of his dialogue is recycled? "do whatever it takes (to stop em, defeat em, gut em), if I gotta kill, i'll kill, if I need your body i'll take it.". He says part of it in the apartment when you first see him, he says all of it when you get hellman at the motel, and when you're at the church for the voodoo boys. Recycled dialogue. He is stuck on a loop, because it's the only part of his personality that the AI has access to. Johnny, is not the real johnny. So what is it that "alt" says she did with all the souls in mikoshi? oh yeah, she absorbed them all into herself. she just ripped all the data from them and stripped out the AI, like reading so much code, in order to incorporate them into herself, which in theory, would grant her a better understanding of people, being an AI, but more than likely will just average out her personality to the averaging of them all. And what happens if you leave? she eats johnny too. and if you let johnny have your body, she eats you. but why would you trust her? Why would you trust Alt, especially when she says herself that she is not alt cunningham anymore, that johnny has no reason to trust her, and that she will incorporate them into herself, rather than letting them be free? Why should you ever believe that EITHER of you survives? Throughout the game, you are reminded that birds around the city are extinct. have been deliberately wiped out to prevent the spread of bird flu. It's mentioned directly in the voodooboys questline, and is unavoidable. And yet, when you're in the nomad ending, you wake up and there is a bird, which flys away. Now, this may be a glitch with the PS4 version of the game that I played, in 1.31, but the bird FREEZES IN MID AIR, Mid flight, and is in view a few feet past the dam, Not only can you zoom in on it, but when you look out over the city, it's empty. There are no cars in the distance, Not even the ones that are part of the game's skybox, the distant highway traffic is gone, which means CDPR Deliberately removed it for this scene, and there is no reason to have done that, unless it is plot relevant. Alt told you herself, that you have 6 months or so to live, so she gave you an imaginary 6 months in your overclocked VR brain while you sit in a tank of sub-zero coolant, and then just rips your mind apart and you die. Letting johnny live is no better, It's just a wish-fullfillment fantasy for him, and then he rides off into the distant unknown, and probably falls asleep and dies on that bus, because the body will still die. Every ending that involves the Alt AI, is just wish fulfilment, it's the matrix. it is euthenasia. Now, If you pay attention to the background details, there's gene therapy with nanomachines available for a few million eurodollars a month (to treat MS aka multiple sclerosis, as well as cancer, and genetic disorders), and if you pay more attention, it's far from the most expensive thing in that setting, and if you pay more attention still, The tech behind this, is in the berserk cyberware. It uses nanomachines to repair damage to your body, and presumably, brain. This exact technology that is publicly advertised to exist, would 100% treat V's medical condition of ruined DNA caused by the relic, and the only way to guarantee his/her survival to get it, Is to do the devil ending, because alt is the true villain of the game, she's basically shodan, and she's personally responsible for what happened in busan (you can find the lore ingame). And most importantly, the devil ending is critical in V being able to afford the nanomachine therapy. If you complete the devil ending and listen to the phonecalls at the end of the game, you get a call from hanako, informing you that she and her father are in need of a new bodyguard. It means in the devil ending, V Becomes the replacement to both Takemura, and Adam Smasher, but only if he/she is alive. and i'll do anything to prove it to the world, If i've gotta meme, I'll meme, If I need your channel to make a video about it, i'll take it. As a side thing, It's also possible that yorinobu might also have johnny's engram in his own head. Everything he does is pretty hellbent on trashing arasaka, and he does a better job of it than johnny ever could. hell, it might have happened ages ago, and might be why he left arasaka and had a gang. might be why he came back. Or maybe he just slotted it into his head to smuggle it out in the first place before getting it into a fancy case. just some extra food for thought.

Dude, just found you and I couldn`t be happier! Love your videos and going to watch them with a cup of tea!!! I just finished the game, tried all the endings (except V and Jonhhy`s solo). I LOVEDDD the Jonhhy`s ending. The Devil ending left a bitter taste in my mouth, it was so desperate and hurtful damn.... Truly emotional but in a painful way!

Wow - the jackie shit is chilling. Nice work.

Very in-depth keep it up

Incredible details

Takamura really is a bro

I just completed this ending myself. (saved it for last because it's kinda shitty) Very well done. This is exactly the kind of video I'd want to put out if I had the time, to show doubters what kind of game this is. Glad people like you are around to do it for me. ;) Oh and a funny thing with that complaint on Yorinobu's computer. It's supposed to be anonymous - you can read the same message on the laptop of whoever wrote it downstairs - but on Yorinobu's computer it has the sender's computer ID at the bottom. A sadly realistic detail.

Great video

Nice video

Great video brah

1588 hrs in this game with a decent break along the way. Surpassed even how much I played the original version of skyrim and the SE since 2011 in under a year and that's how I began my PC gaming life, by playing and modding skyrim. The corpo devil path was my first and favorite playthrough, great video! Edit: i just checked my steam library and the only game with a higher count is Fallout 4 at 1647 and i haven't played that since 2018.

great work thanks

Like how johnny puts on glasses and then a duplicate spawns in and vanishes. Thing about Takamora is, he has several slip of the tongues when he talks to V in the clinic, first when you ask about Hanako, he says she had already forgotten you, but shortly there after, states that it was her doing that V is being allowed into the soul killer program and allowed to essentially become a god himself....seems strange...and Hellmen never mentions that either. only Takamura mentions that she apparently no longer cares...leading me to believe as well that V may be his replacement when he is able to have a new body. But Takamura is jealous so he says that Hanako and Saburo don't care when its clear in the one conversation, that they both very much do, for better or for worse.

Yorinobu was a good guy all along? Didn’t see that coming! Well, I didn’t go for the Devil ending on my first run..so I didn’t know his motives..but I’m sure he’s happy to know I crippled Arasaka with the other ending.

Best ending, from my point of view. "Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven".

22:04 Hanako was clearly choosing Jackie's comments. Wow, that's evil. This ending is messed up.