Life on Erlin’s Eye is played out within cycles. In the absence of a fully realised 3D world such as the one seen in Cyberpunk 2077, Citizen Sleeper’s superlative writing does more than its fair share of the heavy lifting when it comes to effective and memorable world building.
Certainly, the writing is sophisticated, emotive and highly descriptive, providing a stunning prism through which players get to view Citizen Sleeper’s cyberpunk dystopia. Though rife with the same brand of wistful intoxicating melancholy that was so synonymous with Blade Runner, Citizen Sleeper also muses on its themes of transhumanism in a similar fashion to Masamune Shirow’s endlessly influential cyberpunk manga Ghost in the Shell, with frequent and incisive meditations on what it means to have something approximating a ‘soul’ surrounded by a non-human exterior. The idea of ‘planned obsolescence’ is one that strikes a familiar chord with Ridley’s Scott seminal Blade Runner, the notion that a hard cap has been placed on a seemingly artificial life form by a bastion of capitalism to keep it in check, that somehow you cannot be trusted with remaining on your mortal coil in line with your own whims.įurther Reading – New PS5, PS4 Games Release Dates In 2023 And Beyond – All Upcoming PS5, PS4, PSVR2 Games
To be clear, Citizen Sleeper is not a real-time first-person or third-person video game like Cyberpunk 2077 or Disco Elysium, but rather a much slower paced affair that bears a much closer resemblance to titles such as the Vampire: The Masquerade – Coteries of New York and Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart Of The Forest.Īs a Sleeper that has awoken on Erlin’s Eye with no memory of who you were but occasional, dream-like intrusions that hint at a former life both shattered and fragmented, you’re presented with a simple initial goal your artificial body is degrading over time – a measure of planned obsolescence implemented by the corporation that provided you with your body – and you must remedy that situation however you can. Taking an elevated view of Erlin’s Eye, a circular space station structure that isn’t entirely dissimilar to something you might see in the Mass Effect games, points of interest appear on the station and you simply choose where you want to go and your character instantly goes there.
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