Good evening Twitter.
I have written you a Cyberpunk.
I shall recount it now:
This is a record of a twitter thread, originally posted in 2015
Good evening Twitter.
I have written you a Cyberpunk.
I shall recount it now:
IT IS THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND AND FUTURE.
Twenty years ago, WeirdTech Corporation invented Weird Tech, revolutionizing human society
Weird Tech is ubiquitous. Everyone in Future City uses Weird Tech; it drives the world's economy. WeirdTech Corporation is fabulously rich
WeirdTech's branding, typography, and style of advertising are very similar to Apple's, because we don't think players understand subtlety.
But there's a twist: WeirdTech Corporation is SECRETLY EVIL! They control the government, the media, maybe even some people's very minds!
In fact, Future City is surrounded by slums for people whose lives were destroyed by Weird Tech. They wear inexplicably rad clothes.
ENTER PROTAGONIST
Protagonist is the raddest of them all. He has the coolest and best Weird Tech, but uses it to fight WeirdTech Corporation
Perhaps Protagonist used to work for WeirdTech Corporation, until he realized he was just way too rad for that.
Anyway, NO ONE is as rad as Protagonist. He can snap people's necks just by contextually pressing X
On his journey to take down WeirdTech Corporation, Protagonist will proceed through the following environments:
- Repetitive Future Slums
- Future Strip Club
- Future Skyscraper Place where the environment artists finally get to stop using grunge brushes for a few minutes
- Slums Again
yes there are sex robots
After each environment Protagonist will fight the following Bosses:
- FUTURE HELICOPTER
It is clearly jet powered but also has tiny propellers that are kind of useless so you know it's a helicopter
- FUTURE STEROIDS GUY
His muscles have tech lines on them so you know he's not just jacked, he's FUTURE JACKED
Protagonist just punches him a lot though
- SEXY ASSASSIN LADY
She has robot arms. In the event that Weird Tech is itself robot arms, hers are way cooler than Protagonist's.
She has a lot of animations involving throwing Protagonist with her legs.
- FINAL BOSS
Final Boss is the CEO of WeirdTech Corporation. His Weird Tech is stronger and more expensive-looking than Protagonist's
Interestingly, CEOs of super-rich megacorps are INSANELY good at hand-to-hand combat. Protagonist gets punched a lot.
Final Boss smashes some of Protagonist's Weird Tech in a cutscene but Protagonist throws him off a building or something dramatic
Protagonist looks out over Future City. The consequences of your actions remain largely unexplored because videogames don't have denouements
Neither does this tweetstorm.
The end.