Deliver Songbird
The ending of Phantom Liberty perfectly fits the main game, as both share the same premise: There are no good endings in Night City. At least not for everyone. And when you get the chance to enable at least one person to have a good ending, you take it. Especially when that person is a reflection of yourself.
By the end of the DLC, you are confronted with the decision to choose a side: either save Songbird from the FIA and possibly even spare her life, or hand her over to the FIA and Reed.
Yes, the Netrunner lied to V and gave false hopes to secure her own survival. However, she is so similar to V and their struggle for survival that one can somehow understand her motives – and implement them in the game just as she does.
Both V and Songbird are under pressure and fear disappearing into nothingness while something else takes over their consciousness. For V, that’s Johnny, and for Songbird, that’s a dangerous, wild Blackwall AI.
Handing Songbird over to the FIA means giving up your own principles. You not only submit to the NUSA, who could not care less about V. Songbird will become a resource of the FIA after her capture, having completely lost her mind to the Blackwall, without ever regaining a soul.
Yes, with this decision, you lose a rescue option that you could choose for V at the end of the game. Yes, you have to shoot Reed to help Songbird to the moon, where she can be saved. Yes, you also miss out on one of the coolest weapons in the game that houses the perfect horror of Cyberpunk and the Blackwall.
But anyone willing to deliver Songbird has lost my respect.
Have you made any of these decisions yourself, or do you have your own sins in Cyberpunk 2077 that you would never commit? Feel free to share them with us in the comments; I want to know how bad your Vs really are.
Speaking of sins: I would trust no one who intentionally goes up against a gang from Cyberpunk 2077. While they are the smallest group, their goals and attitude simply make it impossible for me not to respect them: The smallest gang from Cyberpunk 2077 is known by every player, but few know what really lies behind the Mox.
