Cyberpunk: Edgerunners felt like a revelation. Like Castlevania and Arcane before it, the series delivered a stunning video game adaptation that told an original story with memorable characters rather than trying to forcefully redo the game’s storyline, all while still very much feeling like a part of its source material’s world. Add in a phenomenal soundtrack and Hiroyuki Imaishi’s striking visual flare, and you have one of the best sci-fi animé series of all time.

Now we’re back in Night City for a new standalone sequel in the larger Cyberpunk universe, though Edgerunners 2 does tie into the story of David Martinez from the first 10-episode series in key ways while also connecting to the main story of Cyberpunk 2077. No, you don’t need to have experienced either to enjoy this new story, but it does pay off to know more about the world of Night City.

From the get-go, Edgerunners 2 tries to do things differently than its predecessor. Rather than focusing on one character experiencing the horrors of Night City, we follow multiple characters and storylines. We mostly see the action through the eyes of two of them: The first is Weak Kingsley, an edgerunner who survives going cyberpsycho early on and has his chrome downgraded (again, this makes more sense if you know the world). Aimless and struggling to adjust to his new reality, Kingsley gets involved in the story when he’s asked by an old flame to rescue a young girl named Talia from the Maelstrom — a cult obsessed with body modifications and leaving their humanity behind.

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