Summary
Cyberpunk 2077is filled with many side jobs for V to tackle in between missions where they are attempting to save their mind from unwillingly being overtaken by Johnny Silverhand. Many of the best inCyberpunk 2077are part of larger strings of side stories that develop throughout multiple missions, developing specific people whose involvement with the main story is minimal to none.
Several ofCyberpunk 2077’s stand-alone side jobsstand out either for the writing’s quality or simply being fun, be they independent of any narrative or off-shoots from larger stories. One such mission is unique since its plot is separated from any other events in the game but also calls back to its Prologue in a fun way.
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Sweet Dreams Reverses V’s Situation in Cyberpunk 2077’s Prologue
After completingone ofCyberpunk 2077’s three Lifepaths, the game’s first mission titled The Rescue sees V and their best friend Jackie Wells tasked with rescuing a young woman named Sandra Dorsett from a group of Scavs looking to harvest her body for its enhancements. Since it is the game’s first proper mission, this task is not all that difficult and serves as a nice introduction to its basic combat and stealth mechanics.
The Rescue is a brief and effective prologuethat gives players a better idea of how missions for the duo typically go as they barely escape with their lives but still consider it a job well done. Despite much of the apartment already being dilapidated by the time the mission begins and its outcome resulting in even more damage and deaths, the Scavs repopulated the apartment to restart the same cyberwar harvesting scheme they had done before.
V finds out about this the hard way duringthe side job Sweet Dreams, which involves buying a sketchy braindance from a man named Stefan for an insane amount. Although everything about the set screams being a bad idea, V goes through with it and falls victim to a trafficking scheme that could also explain how Sandra Dorsett wound up in the situation players initially found her in.
At the very least, one parallel between the two is that V ends up in the same bathtub they found Sandra in, but the difference is that they were able to wake themselves up and get out. Johnny Silverhand understandably calls V out on the foolish decision, and they begin to make their escape from the apartment.
What follows is a mission that plays out similarly to The Rescue, except this time,V is without Jackie, and they are on the opposite end of the apartment with no gear or weapons while Johnny consistently teases them. For anyone who quickly picks up on where they are, it can feel jarring to suddenly end up in a place they likely had not thought about for a couple dozen hours at this point. An even more surreal feeling is that V doesn’t acknowledge this fact despite being a place they had been in before.
The rest of the mission is straightforward, as V quickly dispatches all the Scavs inside the apartment, retrieves their gear, and then returns to Stefan demanding he gives them a refund and leaves Night City or else face a horrid fate. It ends after this point, and it’s easy to feel that a part of the game came full circle since V starts the game by rescuing someone from Scavs only to end up in the very same place at some point later in time. Not having it be mentioned by Johnny or V is a missed opportunity, but if Sweet Dreams was intentionally meant to call back to The Rescue, it is interesting to see that same situation from the opposite perspective.
Cyberpunk 2077is out now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
