We Liked: That Terminology Aside, It’s Surprisingly Accessible
If you’ve never played either the original TTRPG or CD Projekt’s video game now that it’s significantly less broken than it was, you might be concerned that Edgerunners will leave you alienated. The good news is that the series is extremely friendly to Cyberpunk newbies, offering an almost entirely standalone story that follows original characters unconnected from the wider world of 2077. Although there is a late-game addition of a particular villain from the game, the series otherwise stands on its own strengths instead of relying on pre-learned shorthand, and remains compelling even if you’ve never experience Pondsmith’s setting before.
The only thing that slightly gets in the way sometimes is some worldbuilding slang—curses like “Choom,” cybernetically enhanced people being described as “chromed-up,” or even the title of the show itself, two words both interchangeably used to describe David and his crew’s chosen career path at digital mercenaries. But if you can handle that kind of flavor, you don’t need to worry about diving into a massive RPG just to enjoy the show.
