{"id":85026,"date":"2026-06-26T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T16:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85026"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:37:19","slug":"cyberpunk-edgerunners-was-a-tearjerker-but-one-writer-says-it-almost-had-even-worse-endings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85026","title":{"rendered":"Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Was a Tearjerker, But One Writer Says It Almost Had ‘Even Worse Endings’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners<\/a> almost featured a different and “even worse” ending than the one it got, according to writer Bartosz Sztybor.<\/p>\n

The writer behind Studio Trigger and CD Projekt Red’s acclaimed Cyberpunk 2077 anime spin-off spoke about how Season 1’s already bleak story could have had fans shedding more tears during a conversation with Anime Corner<\/a>. In an excerpt from the full, yet-to-be-released interview, Sztybor teased that the ending of David and Lucy’s story was almost more tragic than the one we got when the show came to Netflix 2022.<\/p>\n

Warning! <\/strong><\/em>Spoilers for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners follow…<\/em><\/p>\n

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“There was never a happy ending. There were even worse endings,” Sztybor said. “There was one ending in which David doesn’t die entirely. Arasaka gets him and he ends up fighting in Africa or South America in corporate wars as a robot.”<\/p>\n

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If you’ve not had a chance to see all 10 episodes of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, you should know that the beautifully tragic tale of David Martinez never shied away from the brutality of Night City. It’s a tearjerker from front to back, with his story (and many others) finally coming to an end at the hands of Adam Smasher as Lucy finally gets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners almost featured a different and “even worse” ending than the one it got, according to writer Bartosz Sztybor. The writer behind Studio Trigger and CD Projekt Red’s acclaimed Cyberpunk 2077 anime spin-off spoke about how Season 1’s already bleak story could have had fans shedding more tears during a conversation with Anime Corner….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":85028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85026"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85030,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85026\/revisions\/85030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}