Cyberpunk 2077 was only released a few days ago and it has already begun to generate some quality fan art. One such piece crosses CD Projekt’s latest game with The Last of Us Part II by imagining Joel as V from Cyberpunk 2077. Both of the games used in this crossover were highly anticipated coming into 2020 and were received by gamers with mixed reactions.
Fan art has really flourished in the current social media age as fans of many different franchises from all over the world can share their love of the same thing through their creativity more easily than ever. One particularly popular type of fan art is of the crossover variety where two seemingly disparate series are brought together to create something truly unique. Pokémon, for instance, is a franchise that is often used in crossover fan art, but sometimes fanbase creativity can expand to somewhat unexpected titles such as The Office. No matter what an artist chooses as their subject or subjects in these crossover pieces, the passion for the original properties always shows.
Twitter user ElowMoJo added two impressive images to the crossover fan art world that combined some of the year’s biggest games: The Last of Us Part II and Cyberpunk 2077. In both images, Joel from The Last of Us is sporting the look of Cyberpunk 2077‘s protagonist, and one of the pictures has an added element that sees a clever combination of both titles.
This crossover is strangely fitting, considering the similarities both games went through from development all the way up until release and beyond. Both Cyberpunk 2077 and The Last of Us Part II were delayed multiple times from their initial release dates. Both were also highly anticipated prior to release and met by divisive reactions upon launch, though the reasons for the divisiveness differed. That split, however, does not carry over much into the world of fan art, which now includes these two images. The majority of the comments to ElowMoJo’s tweet praised both the work and the artist alike.
Fan art can often be a unifying element to divisive and even sometimes toxic fanbases. This is likely due to the fact that all fan art, crossover or otherwise, comes from a place of love that all fans of a particular game share to some degree. Though many were and are disappointed by The Last of Us Part II and Cyberpunk 2077, there is still a good portion of those gamers who continue to express their passions for these intellectual properties and will continue to do so in similar creative ways.
