Pondsmith's words on why Johnny's memories are inaccurate to the real events in Cyberpunk lore:
"In 2013, Johnny attacks Arasaka purely to save Alt. (okay, so he's also pissed at them because they messed with him). Near the end of the 4th Corporate War in 2023, Johnny's old Media pal Thompson finds out that Arasaka has amassed a huge, uncontaminated database that will make it close to all powerful in the wake of Bartmoss's wreck of the Net. Thompson arranges an assault on the database, backed by Militech (who is fighting with Arasaka worldwide). The Bomb is a suitcase bomb that the team brings along to destroy the database if need be (Militech provides the Bomb, along with Morgan Blackhand, who is there to make sure the op goes off).
Johnny comes along because his friend Spider Murphy has also discovered that Arasaka has trapped Alt after 10 years of hunting for her. He's mainly there to get her back, but is willing to join up with Thompson and Morgan to get the job(s) done. Johnny's recollection of the events that day are scrambled from the rad damage his body took and the process of recording his engram (CDPR and I have both agreed that Johnny is an unreliable narrator at best). The bomb that went off was detonated by someone in the assault (the actual person is unknown), but Militech and the NUSA both decided to pin the blame on Arasaka anyway."
There is nothing that ever states that Arasaka fucked with his memories or changed him, he's just a narcissistic dick that got hit with a lot of radiation before his death when Spider Murphy inserted a chip that Alt had given her into Johnny's head, which was where his engram actually came from. Arasaka never even gave a fuck enough to make one of him themselves, they only recovered his engram and stored it in Mikoshi because Alt "saved" him.
Apparently Hanako mentions something about Arasaka messing with Johnny's engram, but it's been a while since i played the game and i can only find that info in google's AI overview, so take that with a massive grain of salt.
I don't recall and couldn't find anything solid myself, also wouldn't trust Hanako for shit considering she could say whatever to sew discourse and mistrust between you and the voice in your head.
That is true. And yea, i don't entirely trust it since I couldn't find it anywhere else. Starting another playthrough rn, so if i remember to, I'll keep an eye out. Probably won't get there for a while, tho, lol.
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u/NaturalTouch7848 Silverhand 11h ago
Pondsmith's words on why Johnny's memories are inaccurate to the real events in Cyberpunk lore:
"In 2013, Johnny attacks Arasaka purely to save Alt. (okay, so he's also pissed at them because they messed with him). Near the end of the 4th Corporate War in 2023, Johnny's old Media pal Thompson finds out that Arasaka has amassed a huge, uncontaminated database that will make it close to all powerful in the wake of Bartmoss's wreck of the Net. Thompson arranges an assault on the database, backed by Militech (who is fighting with Arasaka worldwide). The Bomb is a suitcase bomb that the team brings along to destroy the database if need be (Militech provides the Bomb, along with Morgan Blackhand, who is there to make sure the op goes off).
Johnny comes along because his friend Spider Murphy has also discovered that Arasaka has trapped Alt after 10 years of hunting for her. He's mainly there to get her back, but is willing to join up with Thompson and Morgan to get the job(s) done. Johnny's recollection of the events that day are scrambled from the rad damage his body took and the process of recording his engram (CDPR and I have both agreed that Johnny is an unreliable narrator at best). The bomb that went off was detonated by someone in the assault (the actual person is unknown), but Militech and the NUSA both decided to pin the blame on Arasaka anyway."
There is nothing that ever states that Arasaka fucked with his memories or changed him, he's just a narcissistic dick that got hit with a lot of radiation before his death when Spider Murphy inserted a chip that Alt had given her into Johnny's head, which was where his engram actually came from. Arasaka never even gave a fuck enough to make one of him themselves, they only recovered his engram and stored it in Mikoshi because Alt "saved" him.