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Wow.. I did not expect this video to be like this. Just like you, I can just never get this game out of my mind. Amazing work man, and beautiful video

Beautiful video. This game captured me and unlocked feelings ive never felt for a game before. Truly a masterpiece

I really enjoyed this love letter. Thank you.

i think you perfectly pinned it down, the dehumanizing theme of the cyberpunk genre and the theme of getting away from it. Where cyberpunk differs is that you have the option to leave. in blade runner, the wastes stretch for thousands of kilometres which make blade runner feel even more pressing. the questions asked and themes showed are all so well made. I think you should dissect the themes that cyberpunk is portraying, such as redemtion (johnny), solitude (V), Family (aldecaldos), might/dreams (jackie) etc and make them in a similar way of a philosphical video essay Also i would love to have a list of the music used

Leaving Night City? I would rather die like a pig in this dumpster fire of a city it’s just so good. I actually hope future WILL look like this.

We'll revisit Night City once more hopefully, the follow-up to Cyberpunk 2077 is in the works.

Bravo! What perfect timing with this video essay as I'm considering jumping back in. Walking, biking, driving through Night City in my first playground spoke to parts of me that longs for my past life in NYC now that I no longer live there. Thank you for this video which captures so many shared experiences, however isolated they may have been.

Good choice of music, the rogue romance theme is my favorite.

You should really consider watching Cyberpunk: Edgerunners if you haven't already. Even if you dont like anime, it's still a really good show. It revived the game and it really adds a lot to the Cyberpunk 2077 Universe.

A beautiful love letter to my favorite game. Thank you for sharing.

I wish I could forget everything I know about CP77, just so I could experience it all for the first time once more.

I clicked on the video hoping it wasnt some "Leaving night city challenge" and hoping it was one of those video essays that just gives me that feeling, and I'm so glad i was right

Ive got lots of videos on my channal but i dont have my voice on most. I just finished Cyberpunk 2077 for the first time this past weekend. Ive had the game for a while, over 100 hours in it. I just bought the DLC and im looking forward to replaying it! Maybe as a Corpo.

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Thanks for re-uploading this great video with the improved audio mix!

Jesus, the quality of this video is nuts!! Keep it going my dudeeee! awesome!

I always hated that this movie was so unknown. I stumbled over it and loved it so much.

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road inspired The Last of Us

Children of Men is my favorite movie of all time. What a beautiful, gut-punch of a story.

This is really awesome. I am a huge TLoU fan, and I have honestly never heard of Children of Men until today. I have always loved Clive Owen's movies as well. I will absolutely be watching this movie now. I appreciate this.

CoM is One of the best movies made and so amazingly shot with amazing long takes. I also enjoyed trying to recognise places near where I live in east london that it was shot and figure when they got chance to do it without shutting everything down 😊

This video was excellent.

I thought the animals in Children of men were there to show how they gravitated towards the main character. Besides the cows, every animal stuck close to him in the movie. Like they sensed something about his character.

Keep on going mate!

Nice, looking forward to this. One of the very best games and pieces of entertainment in general ever made, it's really special.

Excellent video. Inspired me to go rewatch Children of Men, so thank you.

This is an excellent bit of work and I wish you success with your channel. It is well deserved.

This is why I felt some familiarity the first time I played The Last Of Us. The car scene in the beginning of the game reminds me so much of the long take car scene in Children of Men.

Thank you my friend for this wonderful analysis

For the people saying that it was more inspired by 'the road', how so? In that film it was a father and his son, no hope, no future, no matter what the world and everyone on it is dying, just instinctively trying to stay alive for no particular reason because it's all hopeless. A very well made film but one of the bleakest I've seen... The only real similarities are a man who looks a bit like Joel and a kid in a post apocalyptic world. 'Children of men', however, has *many obvious similarities (as pointed out in this video) and was mentioned by the creator of the last of us as inspiration.. I don't doubt he took inspiration from both, but the majority was definitely taken from 'children of men'.

Logan (2017) is also an excellent version of Children of Men, btw.

To be honest, it feels more like some personal essay rather than a detailed analysis. Surely, both the movie and the game have similarities, but direct comparison seems like overkill. Especially the last part, the "Final" -- putting TLoU: Part II, a direct sequel, which in this case has absolutely nothing to do with Children of Men. Seems like cheating and manipulation.

Children of Men was and still is awesome I actually saw it in theaters back then. I can hardly believe a film that good was a commercial failure. If it was released today, it’d be a guaranteed success.

I love the movie and the game.

“Children of Men” is a direct ripoff of 1983’s “After the Fall of New York” even down to there’s one part where the bad guy’s conference room has the exact same Picasso painting prominent in the room. Both movies have an anti-hero escorting the last known fertile woman on earth to a ship in a desperate attempt to repopulate the world. Children of Men is based on a book but the book also came out 10 years after “After the Fall of New York”. Point is: there are no original ideas. It’s so funny how people are so worried about AI when organic intelligence has been turning out derivative slop for hundreds of years

Children of Men is a great movie. The last of us, the game I don't know, but the show was boring as hell

Children of men was a great film, anyone who hasn't seen it is really missing out. Shame they don't make such films anymore

I'd always said that The Last of Us (which began development in 2009) was a mish-mash of Children of Men (2006) and The Happening (2008). To be fair, around that time there was a smattering of these kinds of movies - The Road, The Grey, I Am Legend, The Book of Eli...

Thank you. Now I finally realize why I had a fascination for Children of Man, one I could not describe.

Children of Men is nothing like last of us lol

I thought children of men was a great film

This is actually why I don't like the HBO show very much. When my mom watched it I told her the biggest inspirations for the game aside from The Road were supposed to be No Country for Old Men, Unforgiven, and Children of Men, I could sense all of those while I was playing, then I asked her if she could see any of those influences in the final TV product she said she couldn't. Because of course she couldn't I appreciate on some level that they chose to emphasize the human drama over "Hollywood thrill-ride action" scenes. Except in their struggle to avoid that they exposed their assumption that those are the only types of action scenes you can make, despite Druckmann's initial cinematic influences; turning survival into pulp, and drama into melodrama. I think maybe they were also pathologically afraid of being compared to the Walking Dead, which while despite having some truly terrible writing at times - especially in its early days, did the same type of melodrama decently enough, while being pretty solid throughout on action/suspense stuff. Maybe if the HBO show had just been longer... I regard the near absence of action scenes to be a missed opportunity. I can't figure out why so many seem to regard it as the ultimate post apocalyptic survival narrative. It's just the game but with only the cinematics and some others added to round out supporting characters, whose only support is thematic. A story of survival with virtually no survival scenes. I find it depressing comparing Children of Men to The Last of Us on HBO, frankly.

Neil druckmanm must be high on strong cocoaine and meth when he thought of last of us 2. Let's kill joel and piss everyone off

Confirmed. When you said subscribe. The sub button lit up like a rainbow. Side note. I own one of the screen used XM8 rifles from children of men and a bunch of the fabric from the soldiers uniforms…