I really thought we'd get more main missions with some involving him before reaching the final mission. Really wanted to see more banter between V and Takemura. He even clicked with V more than Johnny imo which Johnny admits himself that they rarely get along.
because he's so used to enhanced technology allowing him to do things hands-free, once he got downgraded to a phone he had to figure out how to do things manually instead. like our equivalent of trying to learn older technology and their purpose because we have the more advanced or condensed version at our disposal. just like giving a kid a cassette tape and having them try to figure out how it works. hence his zoomer messages and me clowning on him affectionately sorry, spur of the moment thoughts because of the comment lolol,, love this man and his little text cat emote. wish we could've actually taken him out to eat instead of only talking about it in messages :(
V and Goro actually have really good chemistry imo. He has really good comedic timing and I think a lot of it is intentional on his part. It's a real shame he chooses the corporations. Although when you look at it through his eyes I guess they really are the only ones keeping order. The world of cyberpunk 2077 is a feudal society despite what it may look like. He is a samurai serving his emperor. Honestly Goro is my favorite character in Cyberpunk aside from V. It's so sad that he doesn't see things the way we do...
Goro starts to lose faith in his ideology if you hand Songbird over to Morgan Blackhand. In post-credits, Goro tells V he tries to basically do the Devil ending without you. And he says you are like a "good strong medicine that is bitter to the mouth." In the other endings, if you don't help him, he wishes you to go to hell. But by now, he's cooled down and he can't blame V for destroying Arasaka (V isn't around to raid Mikoshi), since Yorinobu would've done that anyway. I think he means that he really is starting to see life more from V's perspective.
Really like the vibes of Takemura, he is practically The Samurai in a Cyberpunk setting, adhering to the Bushido code in a world where it rarely matters. He may be serving an evil corporation but he is still pretty cool dude
I’d like to point out that it is heavily implied that takemura doesn’t like arasaka. He only serves his master not arasaka. Like the fact he sucks at basic technology understanding despite having worked for a company that makes some of the most complex tech (relic). Ik about the 1 year comment gap
@@Kero-zc5tc Where? Because as far as I'm concerned Saburo and the company are one-and-the-same. He even says that the company is needed to keep order. Takemura's greatest flaw is that Saburo is probably the evillest man in the game, if not the entire setting. Men like that don't actually care about anything beyond power for power's sake. Nothing the company does is a problem for him.
@@ved2360 ‘like the fact he sucks at basic technology’, I’m not going to quote the game because honestly it’s been too long since I last played cyberpunk also your ‘greatest flaw’ doesn’t really make sense. It’s like saying my greatest flaw is somebody else, typically people use a feature of their character/personality (such as sticking to honour even in night city where none exists). but never someone separate from them entirely. Also you saying the company and saburo are one and the same hardly matters because as I said he serves a master which he can look at and can see is human, where as the very concept of a company isn’t that. Not that I disagree that saburo and the company are interlinked at a fundamental level, even in death saburo still leads the company through a digital conscious
@@Kero-zc5tc Most people would interpret that as saying that his naive trust in Saburo and blind loyalty is his greatest flaw. Because it is. Saburo is the Japanese equivalent of a Nazi from the 40's. You clearly haven't at all read into Saburo's motivations or backstory. And I do know fascists, they genuinely do not care about anything besides power. His personal log details how violent he is, as he considers missile striking the dockworkers from Millitech and nuking Night City. Point of fact, Goro himself tells you that the Arasaka corporation is needed to keep order when he gets into a debate with V. Neither Saburo nor Goro actually object to the company's behavior nor ethics. I cannot understate how little fascists care about the incoherency of their worldview. Saburo doesn't not care one whit whether or not his megacorp is good for Japan, only the aesthetic of Japanese dominance matters to him, and in a way, he has that. He also basically is a complete racist who will ever consider any non-Japanese his equal. I think it's entirely fair to say Saburo is Goro's weakness. Never forget that Goro would zero V just as easily as he would Dex for little or no reason beyond the fact his masters have ordered him to.
Goro is so underrated, too bad he hates you if you choose anything but the Arasaka ending. You really can't teach an old dog new tricks. Nevertheless, I could hang out with him for hours. Also, "in da fresh?" This has to be a Deus Ex reference
Funny thing that happened while I was playing I got so friendly with goro you eventually get the weird option to text and ask him out for dinner so I googled just to make sure I wasn’t stumbling into a romance scene or something, no homo goro just bros
As a woman who was down to romance him when the dinner text came up I was eternally dissapointef when i googled it and found out you couldnt, like why they set me up to catch feeling like that? 🤣
Goro is actually an honorable guy, going above and beyond to prove that Yorinobu killed Saburo. But I’m not saying he’s good. Like if Saburo asked him to burn down an orphanage he would do it but before that he’d ask if he wanted to clear the place out first.
One thing that annoys me is how V's lines don't really challenge Takemura's outlook. If you run the corporal route you should be able to just straight up tell him that our Arasaka paid you to steal secrets from other companies to drive out competition.
For real my headcannon is if they allowed you to romance him you could give him a reason to live outside of Arasakas reign and then convince him to be a nomad with you, It was a common thing for when a Samurai to question their loyalty to their masters when they fell in love and thats how some became Ronin
"People like me - either we are doing well, or we are in a grave" May sound like a life of any solo merc, but I think that considering the trend the economy is taking the same could be eventually said about any person.
i was so sad that we couldnt romance Goro. His boomer-ass messages, his riddles over the holo-messager, the fact that he gets distracted by a cat when in the middle of a stealth mission on arasaka turf, I CARNALLY DESIRE A MOD TO MAKE HIM ROMANCABLE. GIVE MY MY ENEMIES TO LOVERS SHIT, CDPR!
Yorinobu honestly is pretty legendary in his own right. Shat on the legacy of his father (one of the most powerful men in the world) to go start up his own street gang.
I'm surprised that there is not the scene where Takemura is eating sushi on a balcony over a busy street, and when you ask him "was the food any good?" he throws the food over the balcony and replies "ask the people below". Imo one of the most hilarious exchanges in the whole game lol
Wako looking at Goro like he’s about to be husband number 6 hahah
Can’t blame her lol
@@egg4666we all want goro. ❤😊
Wakako is sorta... mommy-ish. Scary but still mommy-ish 😶
Goro's boomer messages sealed the deal for me. hope we have an option to encounter him at anything other than the devil route in the arasaka tower
i missed them in this video. they are so wholesome and yet funny. love this dude and im always nice to him in my game
nohomo
I really thought we'd get more main missions with some involving him before reaching the final mission. Really wanted to see more banter between V and Takemura. He even clicked with V more than Johnny imo which Johnny admits himself that they rarely get along.
@@han16al46 the whole game in general needed more missions. Him and the opening cast needed more missions for us to be invested in them
wouldn’t he technically be gen z? so it would be zoomer messages
because he's so used to enhanced technology allowing him to do things hands-free, once he got downgraded to a phone he had to figure out how to do things manually instead. like our equivalent of trying to learn older technology and their purpose because we have the more advanced or condensed version at our disposal. just like giving a kid a cassette tape and having them try to figure out how it works. hence his zoomer messages and me clowning on him affectionately
sorry, spur of the moment thoughts because of the comment lolol,, love this man and his little text cat emote. wish we could've actually taken him out to eat instead of only talking about it in messages :(
*Flashback to Dex getting bullet bonked* Takemura- "He is deceased" love that edit
V and Goro actually have really good chemistry imo.
He has really good comedic timing and I think a lot of it is intentional on his part.
It's a real shame he chooses the corporations. Although when you look at it through his eyes I guess they really are the only ones keeping order. The world of cyberpunk 2077 is a feudal society despite what it may look like. He is a samurai serving his emperor.
Honestly Goro is my favorite character in Cyberpunk aside from V. It's so sad that he doesn't see things the way we do...
I was so disappointed I had missed the opportunity to save him. Thought it would pop up as an optional quest marker at some point
I agree sucks playing the whole game becoming friends with him then find out he was only out for the crooks all along lol
Goro starts to lose faith in his ideology if you hand Songbird over to Morgan Blackhand. In post-credits, Goro tells V he tries to basically do the Devil ending without you. And he says you are like a "good strong medicine that is bitter to the mouth." In the other endings, if you don't help him, he wishes you to go to hell. But by now, he's cooled down and he can't blame V for destroying Arasaka (V isn't around to raid Mikoshi), since Yorinobu would've done that anyway.
I think he means that he really is starting to see life more from V's perspective.
BETTER BUCKERU UP !
Wow
Hino-san what happened to you?
I do not know, I do not recognise myself.
Are you happy? May we go?
@@Kazuma_kiryu_cbb1fine, lets go
His text messages are my favorite, he acts like a boomer grandpa
I know they are so cute
One of my favorite parts is when goro stops a whole scope out operation to briefly lose it over a cat
Really like the vibes of Takemura, he is practically The Samurai in a Cyberpunk setting, adhering to the Bushido code in a world where it rarely matters. He may be serving an evil corporation but he is still pretty cool dude
A ronin on the road to avenge his master. Oldschool and cliche in a way, but fits the retro-futuristic world of Cyberpunk 2077.
I’d like to point out that it is heavily implied that takemura doesn’t like arasaka. He only serves his master not arasaka. Like the fact he sucks at basic technology understanding despite having worked for a company that makes some of the most complex tech (relic). Ik about the 1 year comment gap
@@Kero-zc5tc
Where? Because as far as I'm concerned Saburo and the company are one-and-the-same. He even says that the company is needed to keep order.
Takemura's greatest flaw is that Saburo is probably the evillest man in the game, if not the entire setting. Men like that don't actually care about anything beyond power for power's sake. Nothing the company does is a problem for him.
@@ved2360 ‘like the fact he sucks at basic technology’, I’m not going to quote the game because honestly it’s been too long since I last played cyberpunk also your ‘greatest flaw’ doesn’t really make sense. It’s like saying my greatest flaw is somebody else, typically people use a feature of their character/personality (such as sticking to honour even in night city where none exists). but never someone separate from them entirely. Also you saying the company and saburo are one and the same hardly matters because as I said he serves a master which he can look at and can see is human, where as the very concept of a company isn’t that. Not that I disagree that saburo and the company are interlinked at a fundamental level, even in death saburo still leads the company through a digital conscious
@@Kero-zc5tc
Most people would interpret that as saying that his naive trust in Saburo and blind loyalty is his greatest flaw. Because it is.
Saburo is the Japanese equivalent of a Nazi from the 40's. You clearly haven't at all read into Saburo's motivations or backstory. And I do know fascists, they genuinely do not care about anything besides power. His personal log details how violent he is, as he considers missile striking the dockworkers from Millitech and nuking Night City.
Point of fact, Goro himself tells you that the Arasaka corporation is needed to keep order when he gets into a debate with V. Neither Saburo nor Goro actually object to the company's behavior nor ethics.
I cannot understate how little fascists care about the incoherency of their worldview. Saburo doesn't not care one whit whether or not his megacorp is good for Japan, only the aesthetic of Japanese dominance matters to him, and in a way, he has that. He also basically is a complete racist who will ever consider any non-Japanese his equal.
I think it's entirely fair to say Saburo is Goro's weakness. Never forget that Goro would zero V just as easily as he would Dex for little or no reason beyond the fact his masters have ordered him to.
we were robbed. there MUST be the romance with Goro
"I offered her some tea." @Goro Takamura 2077
She respectfully declined
Takemura*
This guy has been made to be trolled I swear
I....fucking...love...him.
7:28 poor Goro, no one ever asks him if hes okay
Goro is just simply 10/10
Goro is so underrated, too bad he hates you if you choose anything but the Arasaka ending. You really can't teach an old dog new tricks. Nevertheless, I could hang out with him for hours. Also, "in da fresh?" This has to be a Deus Ex reference
Goro is the best waifu
Should have been the best romanceable option ! If only x)
YES
love him or hate him, in the end, he's just a lovable ojii-san
Best fuckin character ever made
Give us more Takemura
Takamura literally acts like V's adoptive father
Funny thing that happened while I was playing I got so friendly with goro you eventually get the weird option to text and ask him out for dinner so I googled just to make sure I wasn’t stumbling into a romance scene or something, no homo goro just bros
Lol same. I love him but not like that
same man love my bro but no homo
As a woman who was down to romance him when the dinner text came up I was eternally dissapointef when i googled it and found out you couldnt, like why they set me up to catch feeling like that? 🤣
The convo with him about various kinds of food made me hungry and i'd happily have edinner with him as long as he made the food!
3:43 That is the worse timing to show such ad behind your overly serious character. Lol.
Goro a man of culture! XD
You mean the best timing 🤣
Last time I played the ad said “Watson Whore” right above Takemura
Goro is actually an honorable guy, going above and beyond to prove that Yorinobu killed Saburo. But I’m not saying he’s good.
Like if Saburo asked him to burn down an orphanage he would do it but before that he’d ask if he wanted to clear the place out first.
One thing that annoys me is how V's lines don't really challenge Takemura's outlook. If you run the corporal route you should be able to just straight up tell him that our Arasaka paid you to steal secrets from other companies to drive out competition.
For real my headcannon is if they allowed you to romance him you could give him a reason to live outside of Arasakas reign and then convince him to be a nomad with you, It was a common thing for when a Samurai to question their loyalty to their masters when they fell in love and thats how some became Ronin
10:39 I purposely finished the skewer just to see if he would say something, but he didn’t 😂
I just walked away from him before the Parade mission started and he gave me so much lip
Goro's my favorite choom probably 2nd to Jackie. He's unintentionally funny at times due to his boomer messages. 😂
"People like me - either we are doing well, or we are in a grave"
May sound like a life of any solo merc, but I think that considering the trend the economy is taking the same could be eventually said about any person.
best waifu
This is a great edit :D
I love this man to much lol
V and Goro Takemuara and the degenerate drinking partners... Arthur Morgan and LEEENnnY _rdr2 😂😂😂
A good man. Highly.
well…
my favorite character, it's shame that he'll suicide if you don't go the devil
Does he really kill himself or does someone else zero him and cover it up as a suicide?
@@thestreetkid he sends you a videomail talking about samurai death poems if he's alive but you don't take the devil route.
@@thestreetkid He also tells you to rot in hell lmao, but I still love him
hes so fucking daddy
Love the ammo box just popped up after he dropped. 2:44
3:03 Probably one of the funniest dialogues in the game 💀
i feel so bad that i didn’t save him i thought he was dead
"We goin in"
9:51 yet you bought that box-noodle anyway
I wil miss u takemura sry for betrayed u my old friend but the fat ass of rogue ans panam man have to understand me !
Lmao bro
LMFAO
Goro and v basically rush hour version of cyberpunk
“Hello, my name is V?!”
i was so sad that we couldnt romance Goro. His boomer-ass messages, his riddles over the holo-messager, the fact that he gets distracted by a cat when in the middle of a stealth mission on arasaka turf, I CARNALLY DESIRE A MOD TO MAKE HIM ROMANCABLE. GIVE MY MY ENEMIES TO LOVERS SHIT, CDPR!
Who wrote those dialogues? It s great work
Chad Takemura vs virgin Yorinobu
Yorinobu honestly is pretty legendary in his own right. Shat on the legacy of his father (one of the most powerful men in the world) to go start up his own street gang.
I'm surprised that there is not the scene where Takemura is eating sushi on a balcony over a busy street, and when you ask him "was the food any good?" he throws the food over the balcony and replies "ask the people below". Imo one of the most hilarious exchanges in the whole game lol
pretty sure it was a burger
Is the guard at the Arasaka estate voiced by the same person?
6:51 Is it only me or does the accent go off for a bit
3:08
2:39 what mission is this?
It's part of the ending where you work with Hanako.