First Reviews of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 Split Critics, Praising Visuals and Violence but Questioning Story

“The ingredients are familiar, sometimes too much so. But a superb ensemble of characters and the relationships between them make this return to Night City richer, more satisfying and simply better.”

“‘Edgerunners 2’ doesn’t feel as significant an event as the first season, but it still delivers an impressive spectacle. As a sci-fi story about the evil of megacorporations, a tale of revenge, and action with stunning fights and striking brutality, the Trigger and CD Projekt RED series gets the job done.”

“Dee and Roman’s storyline develops separately from Talia and Wick’s for most of the season, with fairly little overlap between them. But when their paths finally converge in the closing episodes, the long wait pays off. It would have been easy to repeat David’s story, perhaps with a different outcome. However, ‘Edgerunners 2’ deserves praise for refusing to simply reproduce its predecessor’s winning formula.”

“The story threads are so loosely connected that for more than half the season the narrative wanders aimlessly, resembling several ideas for different anime instead of one cohesive series. Roman, Talia and Dee are in the same solar system, but there is no real gravity between them. At least, I don’t feel it.”