Cyberpunk 2077 features a wide variety of colorful characters, but the game’s best character is more than deserving of their own prequel game. The future of the Cyberpunk video game franchise is a bit unclear, as developer CD Projekt Red has only recently announced it, offering no real evidence of whether the next Cyberpunk game will be a true sequel or a prequel story. While most players would immediately imagine V, the game’s protagonist, as the game’s most interesting character, one standout character stuck with players through thick and thin, all while sporting a mysterious background just begging to be explored in a stand-alone prequel.
Goro Takemura, the former bodyguard of Saburo Arasaka, proves himself to be one of the coolest characters in Cyberpunk 2077‘s main campaign. Originally at odds with V at the beginning of the game, Takemura becomes instrumental to not only bringing justice to his employer’s murderer but additionally giving V a second chance at life (if players so choose at the climax of the campaign’s narrative). Not only that, but Takemura develops a genuinely faithful friendship with V as the game progresses, even if he simply tries to make ends meet.
Goro Takemura Has Plenty Of Backstory For A Prequel To Cyberpunk 2077
In Cyberpunk 2077, Takemura was well-known for his position as the bodyguard of the biggest megacorporation in the world of Cyberpunk 2077, and became just as well-known for his lost standing in the Arasaka corporation. Some players make the mistake of letting Takemura die in Cyberpunk 2077, and in doing so miss out on a lot of the character’s appeal. A prequel game could potentially dig into Takemura’s journey of climbing the ranks of Arasaka’s corporate army to becoming one of the most well-known bodyguards in Night City, even if players chose to let him perish in Cyberpunk 2077.
A prequel Cyberpunk video game centered around Goro Takemura could take the series in a fresh, new direction while exploring its most interesting character. Instead of playing as an action RPG, a Takemura prequel game could shift gameplay focus to a more stealth-heavy experience, following Takemura as he presumably kills his way to the side of the Arasaka corporation’s CEO.
A Takemura-centered prequel game could also take Cyberpunk video games out of Night City, globe-trotting alongside Takemura and his employer while shedding light on the world outside of Japan. Whether Project Orion, the current code name given to the next Cyberpunk video game from CD Projekt Red, will be a prequel game led by Goro Takemura is admittedly a long shot. Hopefully, the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 will take the series in a bold, new direction with its best character at its helm.
