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Cyberpunk 2077’s quest director Paweł Sasko describes the process of making the controversial Sinnerman quest.
Audio Logs is back for a brand new series! It’s the GameSpot show where the people behind the games you love tell the untold stories of how they were made. This week we’re joined by CD Projekt Red quest director Paweł Sasko to break down perhaps the game’s most controversial quest: Sinnerman.
The quest starts off fairly innocuously, but quickly turns into a question of faith and morals when V is asked to accompany a prisoner to a braindance studio. The prisoner, Joshua Stephenson, has found his faith at the end of his life, and wants his death to be meaningful. V, with some nudging from Keanu Reeves’ Johnny Silverhand, has to decide whether to take part in the braindance, or whether to simply walk away. Sasko breaks down how the team came up with and implemented this challenging quest: Balancing encouraging players to follow the storyline, but also giving them the option to back away if they don’t want to engage with it.
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Favorite quest
Between this quest and the Peralez questline, there's just something so hauntingly memorable about the bleakness of some of 2077's quests, and how it comments on Night City's depravity as well as how at the end of the day, V is but a microscopic organism in this huge hellhole of a city. The atmosphere just won't be the same without these stories.
I could only do this quest completely, once… 😅
I only just found out about this quest in my 3rd playthrough.
Never realize the diner scene was The Last Supper reference
Ah, creating CyberScam 2077.
The "If-else" statements in the source code must be crazy for this game
new gamespot kino…
That's not the only thing cdpr backtracks and walk back on
Your game is a scam
This quest…
Made me feel dizzy and sad
I never can bring myself to do this quest. Not because I'm squeamish, I simply don't see why my jaded V would help a random religious nutcase in his bullshit quest.
im the n1 Paweł fan❤
This quest amounts to me as little more than this: One man's faith in some delusional redemption, being exploited by a corporation. You can support him, and the corporation gets what they want. You can make him doubt, and they don't. That's it. There's no good ending to this. It's just some guy who's doing something crazy, and they're making money off of it. I opt to deny them that, because at least then it was all pointless AND you get to fuck over a corp.
This quest hits pretty hard. But I still love River Ward's and the Peralez's Questlines more. In one, you're helping an everyday man doing everything he can, even going above the law to save his family member and actually succeeding in it. In the other you see a powerful figure that's ultimately shown to be a powerless puppet in a bigger game who is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't find out about the powers-that-be controlling his life. Cyberpunk is an amazing experience and I'll be creating a new save for the expansion.
I didn't know this was an actual quest, once I saw the cop kill him, I just started shooting everyone 😂
Bro in my first playthrough I saw the guy die and I went killer mode and died to the police guy 😅 didn’t know it was meant to happen and I couldn’t save the guy who hired me.
It's funny how people often say that this guy's story was amazing whereas for me it was just a cliché story about a bad man who found god in prison lol. Overall I think CP2077 is a very average game at best which was a disappointment for me as their previous games like The Witcher, The Witcher 2, The Witcher 3, both The Witcher 3 Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine expansions and ThroneBreaker are amazing and I've played it many times. But i only played CP2077 twice and i kinda forced myself to finish it the second time because it was boring.
Love this insight! CDPR is one of the best in the business at quest design, and character development. Love to see how they bring that magic forward!
I hope the do similar breakdowns of some of the other quest in cyberpunk. This was one of the more challenging quests for me to play but it was worth it.
Shouldn’t there be a spoiler alert warning? Or does this have nothing to do with the main story of the game?
I missed this quest on my first and second playthroughs, first time because it didn't trigger and second time probably because of a choice. So when I saw everyone talking about it online, I was very confused 🤣🤣. On my third playthrough, I finally finished the quest. Definitely the type of quest that's great to provoke TONS of discussion about TONS of topics, so I'm glad CDPR wrote and built it the way it is. It was an insight on religion in Cyberpunk 2077's world, more about BDs (one of my favorite Cyberpunk concepts), a view on how far humanity may go for profit, this whole existentialism thing with Joshua that Mr. Pawel mentioned, the value of a life and a lot more. It leaves you a bit discomfortable, and I love that it does that. And I love how Cyberpunk 2077 brings about discussion and thought in other quests too, more often than not. Definitely one of my favorite games.
The was just a handfull of these but i must recognise that when i made this quest i was blown away byits complexity when at the beginning it looked nothing like what ended up happening
There is another layer and that layer is knowing how much work goes in to the quests in a CD Projeckt Red game and knowing any given quest could be the goofiest or the most serious.
I personally loved Sinnerman and had to see it through till the end.
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This isn’t just a game analysis, it’s an ART analysis. The implied and explicit lines for example, make every scene like it’s own art composition.
The amount of detail into little bits of information that most people might not even notice for more than a few seconds is astounding and why I love this game so much
This was definitely the most disturbing quest to me in the whole game. I still don't know how I feel about it. I've played through CP2077 like 6 times, but I think I've only nailed him to the cross maybe once, on my first playthrough.
if my V doesn't like Johnny, when he says "if you don't go with them I'm never talking to you again," I trigger Sandevistan, shoot Joshua, steal a car behind the cop and run him over as I flee
crazy timing on this upload. this was the next quest for me to do on my (4th) playthough today!
Thank you for creating this game! Glad you guys stuck with it all these years.
And Pawel's crying
Funnily Backs to the Wall, a simple gig hurt me even more
This was by far the best quest for me personally in 2077.
i really appreciate this breakdown. this is my favourite quest in the entire game. it encapsulates so many systemic commentaries about Night City: a corporate carceral state, the ethics of black braindances, contrition in a society that does not make space for forgiveness, faith in an otherwise faithless world, revolutionary politics in a society which cannot achieve revolution (Johnny tried, remember?). this video is great & i appreciate you taking the time to show everyone that this game, bleak & imperfect as it may be, does have something to say even if it might make you uncomfortable.
Don’t ever stop making controversial quests.
Great video I would love more videos of quest breakdowns like this specifically cyberpunk as there’s a lot of interesting quests I’d be curious to learn more about. Like the ending quest line too.