Cyberpunk 2077 is an undeniably ambitious game. What you might not expect from it is a feeling of nostalgia. Spending my Christmas playing Cyberpunk 2077 took me back to playing Deus Ex invisible War as a kid on Christmas day back in 2003. I fell in love with a genre that was new to me, the FPS RPG. A genre that allowed deep layers of role-playing and level customization and narrative choices, all while keeping the fast-paced action of a first-person shooter. It was then I developed a soft spot for the janky RPG shooter. Deus Ex felt small and somewhat linear at the time. You would just jump from environment to environment. It didn’t feel like a connected world, so it's cool to play something like Cyberpunk that feels like everything I enjoyed about those games blown out into a massive ambitious open-world.