Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty’s Dogtown is better than the entire base game map
After an almost three year long wait, the first (and only) expansion for Cyberpunk 2077 is here. Phantom Liberty offers a whole new storyline to explore, one that sees you getting wrapped up in a political spy thriller as you’re tasked with saving the president of the NUSA. It also adds in a whole new area to explore, Dogtown, a cordoned off section of Night City that has its own rules and militia. Dogtown isn’t the biggest area compared to the rest of the game’s locales, but honestly? I think it’s better than the entire rest of the map.
Yesterday I wrote about my feelings on how Cyberpunk has changed with its 2.0 update, and how we shouldn’t really be saying “it was always good,” because I do think there are some bigger problems that a skill tree overhaul and various other tweaks can’t fix. One of my problem’s is Night City itself. For a futuristic city, I think big parts of it aren’t all that interesting.
As I outlined in yesterday’s piece, there are pockets of interesting places to find in Night City. In particular I like Pacifica, because from its design alone you can quickly garner it’s not quite as affluent as other areas in Night City. But again, spaces like these that I feel genuinely interested in exploring feel few and far between; all the other monolith buildings exist for no other purpose than set decoration.