In Cyberpunk 2077, gamers can explore Night City, with plenty of jobs and locations to distract them from the main storyline. Players have known that the main campaign runs approximately 20 hours, but many wonder how the campaign’s narrative is divided.
In narrative fiction, the standard is to divide a story into three acts: a beginning, in which concepts are introduced; a middle, with rising tension; and an ending that resolves conflicts created throughout the story. Some stories find success in expanding the middle and thereby creating a five-act structure, but the campaign in Cyberpunk 2077 is unique in that its main storyline contains only two acts (not including the prologue and the epilogue).
At the beginning, players will learn more about the game world through the prologue, which is influenced by the choices they’ve made during character creation. Once this has concluded, Act One begins, which is where a majority of the game’s narrative takes place. Apex Legends fans may recognize a few voice actors bringing this narrative to life. Players will know they have reached Act Two when a larger portion of Night City becomes available for players to explore. The game will warn players as they approach the ending to the campaign that starting the final job will prevent the player from free exploration.
Upon successfully completing the final job, players will enter the epilogue, which will reflect the choices made by the player throughout the game. The conclusion of the epilogue completes the game’s main storyline, and players are free to return to Night City – at a point immediately proceeding the final job – in order to explore Night City freely and tackle incomplete side quests.
Cyberpunk 2077 is unique in many ways, but the two-act structure of the main storyline possibly reveals how confident CD Projekt Red is that the side quests and can hold their own weight. In a medium that is known for being audience-driven, it makes sense to let players form the bulk of the story’s “middle” on their own by exploring Night City, completing side jobs, and finding all six iconic weapons.
It’s also possible that two acts is exactly how much space the story required, or even that CD Projekt Red wanted there to be less distracting the player from organic discovery. With a map that’s estimated to be over 20-square kilometers, there’s plenty of setting to be discovered.
Cyberpunk 2077 is available now for PC, PS4, Stadia, and Xbox One, and will release for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S in 2021.
Source: Gamer Journalist
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