By Ryan Chang
Troy Van Leeuwen as a «Troubled Bird».
Original pic by Megan Moss
A lot of people seem to think “cyberpunk” is just an aesthetic.
I just finished my first playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077 and I am just… blown away. What an Experience with a capital E.
I heard that some people think Keanu wasn’t a good fit for Johnny Silverhand and to that I’d ask… who would have been better? A no-name voice actor? A big name voice actor? An oscar nominee? Please!
What we got from Keannu is something we couldn’t have gotten from anyone else, because others would have just tried to act the hell out of that role and I just don’t think that would have produced the same results as the very particular kind of charisma that Keanu has.
And yes, the starpower is a big factor in this case, but not in the “this will get the game more sells” way, but rather in the “this will sell this character more” way.
Oh, and his acting ability was perfectly fine for this game. He is an actor after all. He knows what he’s doing.
Place where reality is altered: overgrown busstop in the middle of the night.
Some of my screenshots of Johnny Silverhand