Apr 10, 2022 · For example when V connects to Mikoshi, that's why he can be loaded back to his body and still be him. Arasaka used Soulkiller on Jackie too (though he was a Relic 1.0), to interrogate him about the heist, so doing that on dead people is …

Mar 15, 2022 · Whether it was done deliberately or by some process of corruption, memories clearly can change in translation from life to after-life. Much of Johnny is recognizable to those who knew him, but the Johnny V knows could be so much less (or more) than he was in life. What is Mikoshi really?

As i understood, Mikoshi is a data fortress where Arasaka store personality engrams of those rich people who want to be digitized. In a methaphoric sense Its kind of a digital prison for souls.

268 votes, 146 comments. So does V actually die in the Star and the Sun endings upon entering Mikoshi? Does the soulkiller just kill V and create a…

Mar 19, 2021 · Hey guys, I had a question regarding the Arasaka ending in the game and how V gets a chance to talk to Jackie's construct if they had sent his body to Vik's in act 1. Is this only possible if you save Takemura during the raid? I'm doing a corpo playthrough and I've been roleplaying my V as a pretty coldhearted bastard who cares about very few besides himself. So, for story purposes, I was ...

Dec 21, 2020 · However, I think there's also a massive difference between engrams and what is created via Mikoshi and the Relic. Jackie was, to borrow from Altered Carbon, spun up for the sake of interrogation.

The “human factor” method of finding a way into Mikoshi is Hellman and Hanako. Alt wants us to get into mikoshi. We need to know where it is and how to get in. At this point V isn’t even sure if mikoshi exists in the “meat world” or is purely virtual. Chances are pretty good that getting in will involve more than just knocking.

Nov 17, 2021 · That physical link is important; when V jacks into Mikoshi and is hit by Soulkiller, it's not that their consciousness ends; the physical connection between the brain and the engram allows the consciousness to experience whichever sensations are prioritized, which in the case of Soulkiller/the engram/Mikoshi, is the digital experience of the ...

Oct 29, 2021 · If you return to earth, you get a phone call from hanako in the credits IIRC, stating that you have skills arasaka would be interested to hire in the future. I guess if you get in mikoshi, you're just basically arasaka property and they can download you in a body at their convenience for odd jobs, a la altered carbon. Reply reply ...

If “engram V” is ultimately a different entity than “human V”, there’s the jarring narrative choice of having the player represented as both characters—living the experiences leading up to Mikoshi and then immediately having the perspective of the engram.