The Cyberpunk 2077 Writing Team Promise More Than “Comic-Book” Villains
Thanks to their Frame-by-Frame blog series, CD Projekt Red has now revealed quite a lot of information about the setting of Night City. However, fans still know next to nothing about V or the stories which will feature in Cyberpunk 2077. In a recent interview, a member of the game’s writing team discussed their writing process and how they approached the Cyberpunk 2077 villains.
Cyberpunk 2077 Villains and the Writing Team Behind Them
Stanisław Święcicki, a member of the Cyberpunk 2077 writing team, recently gave an interview with the Official PlayStation Magazine. In it, he described how the team worked together on the upcoming project; “It’s around eight to ten people. Ten at the moment. So, it’s quite a team. At the beginning it’s like all the team sort and on a higher level it’s decided what’s the direction. And then we come up with sort of a story outline so to speak – a very bird’s eye view of how the story progresses. Narrative is key at CD Projekt RED. I like to say narrative is key, rather than story is key. Because it all comes down to all the narrative teams really working closely.”
He also turned his attention to the factions and villains which will feature in Cyberpunk 2077. He made clear, in fact, that they would deliver better than “comic-book” style villains; “And also the machine gang you make a deal with. With the gangs we really want to emphasize that we don’t want them to be our comic book-esque villains – they’re not abominations that decided for almost no reason to put cyberware in themselves. It’s a dark, dangerous world and some people who aren’t able to make it to the megacorps or don’t want it… It’s a human need to seek identity, and some people just gravitate towards the gangs. Although their faces are modified they’re still human underneath, you know. It touches upon a universal feeling we all have: the need to belong to a group.”
It certainly sounds as though Cyberpunk 2077 will have a strong story and cast of characters. However, thus far, fans have seen very little of those things. The story trailer gave more information about the setting than the story. Hopefully, it won’t be too long before CD Projekt Red releases another trailer or more detailed information about the actual characters and narrative of Cyberpunk 2077.