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TODAY, we will be taking a deeper look at one of the kindest people in Night City, Misty! Misty is something of a hidden superhero in this story, displaying great strength and resilience in the face of hardship. Seeing Misty’s story throughout 2077 is a beautiful reminder to persevere in this world of change.
I really enjoyed this video, as I discovered so much more about Misty than I thought I would. I honestly though this would only be a 15 minute video… I feel like every time I think that, the video ends up being 30 minutes lol. I honestly thought my Mac was gonna fry itself once I got over the 30 minute mark, it was a bit sketchy. I could fry eggs on this laptop.
I will always say that while I don’t think V is a great person, they truly do have a guardian angel in Misty. I only wish there was more of her in the game! She’s honestly the main reason why I think the Phantom Liberty ending is the best ending. Her appearance just packs it with meaning.
Huge thank you to everybody for watching. I hope you enjoy, and that you have a wonderful day. Just ask yourself, what would Misty do? LOL
See you in the next one, guys! GOODBYYYE!!!
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Thanks for watching, everyone! Sorry about the odd mic inconsistency — i initially planned this as 15 min. video, but as i was editing, more and more just kept getting added as I kept watching the game footage. Seems everytime i plan a short video, i make a long one, or a long one ends up being a short one. lol! Hoping you all have a great weekend. 🙂
I appreciate your videos..maybe I've not looked hard enough.but your one of the only people going indepth on the characters them selves..
Amazing vid. Thank you!
Misty is an amazing character and I do wish there was more interactions with her. Just stuff to do and check in with her especially after losing Jackie.
As a character especially with multiple play throughs she is written much like the Shakespearean "fool" in each of his plays. Someone who at first glance seems like they are spouting mumbo jumbo, but at the end of it and if you really pay attention to their words they end up being the most clued in character in the story and in some cases to a prophetic degree.
I also as a card reader appreciate that CDPR didn't just bullshit their way through the Tarot and clearly did some homework and pretty much nailed it.
One thing that stuck with me even in my first playthrough, is that although she never judges… She's the least judgemental person in Night City maybe… Early in the game after the Konpeki heist you can mention the option of killing yourself, and she says something like "Then you'd be killing TWO souls. Is that really what you want?" (paraphrased). That's one of the times she comes close to being judgemental and she's pretty much the only person in the game who sees Johnny's engram as another life worth saving if possible. Even Rogue will chastise Johnny in the ending where you let him keep your body, giving him shit for manipulating V into letting Johnny have it.
And yeah, she gives V the "unleash Johnny" pills as well. I think she sees Johnny's "life" as equally valuable, which is pretty unique as far as character reactions go.
I love "The Narrator," behind Misty's counter, and the title "A Hero in Punk's Clothing," chef's kiss!
To me, Misty is the most tragic character in Night City, followed up by Mama Welles.
First Misty loses her love and boyfriend, has to see his best friend struggle and ultimately die/leave her behind and her friendship with Vic strains because Night City chewed both of them up. She's left with no one in NC, even innthe Liberty City ending.
At least in the LCEnding she cannfind a new community
A while back I was involved in a debate on Reddit in which the opposing side was… pretty stock and standard for an atheist. Believe in only what is scientific and everything. I remember that I pointed out that, while that might make sense for a machine, it's not true for a sentient being. It's easy to look on from the outside and make 'clinical observations' about a person and what they do when it's someone else, but when it's you on that side, it's different. Some people say that God exists in the laugh of every child and the smile of every newborn. Which is hilariously unscientific but then you look at your own child and watch them come into the world, them smile at you when they're little, laugh as they play, and… it suddenly makes sense. They seemed to get it. That looking at the world objectively can work out fine in a lab, but humans have emotional/spiritual needs that can't be so easily managed and, for a lot of people, things like religion and spiritual practices help them find their place in the world and define who they are.
Things like astrology and tarot cards are laughable when you think about it. There's so many scientific holes in them and they're so vague that it's insane. But then you see people finding a genuine place in the world, enjoying themselves, and finding emotional fulfillment and the like using these things. Some people get that they're silly and stupid but still enjoy them. What are you going to do? Rip them away and tell them to go read a book about astrophysics? You won't create an intelligent person, you'll create a resentful being and come off as an asshole. Something like an oiji board may be stupid, but when you have someone who is looking for comfort from a deceased person, it can help.
Night City is a city full of hedonism and excess. It's a setting where, scientifically, there's no reason to NOT engage in the extremes. Get as much cyberware as possible, climb the corpo ladder, do all these horrible things because the law is basically nothing more than a city-controlled gang anyways. So live it up! Use pron to sell dog food! Yet we see the horrible results of this complete lack of moral decay as well. Joytoys who get assaulted, abused, and literally sell their bodies to an algorithem. Gangs like Maelstrom who get as much cyberware as possible and basically see cyberpsychosis as a good thing. VDB use a religious trapping but are malicious, cruel, manipulative, and everything. Corpos inflict horrors on entire populations and kick off entire wars just for profit. The few people with any degree of moral fiber have either been forced out of the city to it's fringes, or have to actively work to reject what Night City offers. Misty is the latter and, in a way, serves as a moral anchor for V when starting off. Showing the world isn't corrupt and beyond redemption and standing as a contrast to the decedant city. The people need her, and it's so sad to realize that so many can't even pop in for a tarot card reading or even just a quick chat to get some emotional and spiritual centering.
Misty and spider Murphy are voiced by the same person 2
Misty reminds me of a friend I had in highschool, right down to the way she dresses. Every moment she was on screen felt like catching up with the old friend group
I still think of Misty as a Shadowrun character in Cyberpunk's world…
For the people who don't know: Shadowrun is, to put it simply, "Cyberpunk With Magick."
ifound myself visiting Misty and doing the same tarot reading so often more so just so I could see Misty and get that breath of fresh air.
Just pointing out its the other way around misty rents of vick. Not vick from misty.
i love misty, shes awesome and my favorite character in cyberpunk. her spirituality and guidance is a great counterpart to viks medicine and science. i always stop by her shop when going to viks for implants
misty hugging t-bug feels weird
In some playthroughs V is LOADED with money. Would have been nice to have a small quest in which you lave it all to your friends. One case would be in which you give Vik the money to secure his clinic as an established clinic, so Zetatec would not be able to buy him out. But Cyberpunk has a way of telling us that no matter how much you want to have an impact on the world, it never really goes the way you imagine.
Using Mistys counter for the backdrop is a fun touch, love it.
Misty is the reason I bought a Cyberpunk tarot deck 😊
The only thing i hated about misty is that he didn't help with DLC expansion. Where she's telling you about king of cups (songbird) is bad card and you should be carefull about. Then i betrayed songbird saved her and got the worst ending in the game. Got beat up by some random npcs and later becoming NPC. i had trauma after this ending + Judy left me 😭
The irony of Misty being dressed as Pris from Bladerunner, an unempathetc sociopathic android, was an interesting choice for the devs.
Misty and Meredith having the same VA means that V can kind of hook up with Jackie's ex after his death. 😉
I only played Cyberpunk earlier this year. I liked Misty, but she didn’t become one of my favorite characters in this game until the credits, and only then for the most absurd and coincidental of reasons: her last name.
I’m also an Olszewski; the succinct result is that playing the game for the second and third times concurrently I have been paying attention to Misty, and I already regret writing her off my first time. There’s more to her story than the simply nice neighbor with an intriguing sidequest with the tarot cards.
Complete sidenote, but excellent pronunciation of Olszewski. For reasons I do not and shall never know (but I suspect has to do with their general low intelligence) my biological paternal family insisted it was/is pronounced “O-zoose-ski.” It wasn’t until I was about 24 years old that I realized this was a mistake; though this only reinforced my old joke that it’s so quintessentially Polish that any attempt to vocalize that monstrosity of a surname shall prove equally valid to the next.
I adore your usage of language. It’s not overly verbose, but it has a certain personal style while retaining a clarity of crystal clean water. Do you recognize any specific influences on your vernacular, any writers whose own writing you find has in part been reflected into yours?
Perhaps a tad conceited to mention, but I myself acknowledge a strange crossbreed of the baseball writer Bill James and pseudo-historian Shelby Foote, with a smattering of Joseph Heller. Through James I have developed a certain dry wit and irony (or so I flatter myself into believing), by Foote I adapt an admittedly verbose vernacular, punctuated with grammatically correct though lengthy sentences, and Heller’s brilliant turns of phrase bring conscious attempts to attain such a standard.
Misty was a voice outside of the wheel that grinds down the citizens. It is sad that even with her increased perception of the world around her, she is still powerless to make change in it. She sees the world as it is and is destined to watch it play out.
V left NC for Nepal….per a conversation walking to the ofreda from Jackie’s garage.
Misty and Vic are probably my favourite characters in Cyberpunk.
I can't exactly describe why that is, but her presence is always so soothing, so comforting and she's so, so sweet. I adore her relationship with V and I wish we've got more opportunities to express gratitude for her compassion and unconditional support, to offer support in return as well. I wish we've got more time with her in general, although to me, she left a tremendous impact as is.
(As a side-addendum, Misty's voice actress also voices Spider Murphy in Johnny's flashbacks as well)
I'm glad this came to my recommended feed! I love Misty and her rebellion to be "organic" in such a tech heavy world, like the Monk you meet for the meditation sessions. There is rebellion to head back to nature, to base yourself in the earth rather than the grind always mindset.
Thank you for such a great character breakdown. Looking forward to your Tarot video! As someone who plays with my own decks on occasion, I'm very fascinated to hear your interpretations.
Great, now I'm tearing up.
I really wish Misty had gotten her own line of sidequests.
Anyway, thanks for the great video.
Love these videos. I fell in love with CP2077 and watch lore vids while doing other stuff. So your channel has been a lovely discovery, choom
You should analyze the players who are mad they can't romance Misty
The only hero of night city is the iron in V’s hand and Johnny by his side raiding Arasaka.
Just discovered your channel yesterday and love it! I've been a Cyberpunk 2077 mark from the beginning (my PC seemed to shield me from most bugs) and thank you for putting these together – the binge continues!
THANK YOU so much for this!! Really well done. Misty is overlooked by so many. There's so much depth to her and she really is one of the only true friends to V from the start and all the way to the end. Misty always brings V back to reflect on what actually matters in this world moving way too fast. She's been my favorite character since my first playthrough and this video really nails every element of her. Thank you!
I've always believed that Misty was secretly one of the most important characters in the game. The Pondsmith cyberpunk universe is built on the core value of "going out with a bang". Everything and everyone in Night City is built around the axiom of "Get rich and die trying", but out of everyone I've met in my 300 hours of playtime, Misty seems to be the only character who seems truly content and happy with the way she's living.
Great video as always! I look forward to more videos in the future!
I'm fucking sobbing over this analysis. I just. Ough the sillies