It is common for open-world games to have many secrets that are discovered over time. Sometimes, even years later. All the great titles of the genre have had them, in many cases they still have them, and even today, they continue to amaze us with everything their developers hid in them.
The latest game to experience this has been Cyberpunk 2077. A Reddit user named CommercialLeg2439 one day discovered something strange at the Grand Imperial Mall in the Pacifica area. He noticed that when night fell, some letters would light up while others wouldn’t. Which resulted in an apparently nonsensical message: “GRA D IMPERI L MALI”. Except it turned out to have a hidden meaning.
As other Reddit users noticed, the message was in Latin and if you ignore the L, you get “grad imperi mali”. Or “Degree of government evil”. Something that if we introduce the L, which is the number 50, could well mean either that the 50 states of the United States are part of that evil, or that the degree of evil is 50. Depending on how we want to interpret the message.
Although it’s not a big detail, it shows that, despite everything, Cyberpunk 2077 still has many hidden details yet to be discovered. A reminder of the attention to detail that developers put into this kind of games, and how they don’t seem to run out even years after their initial release.
