Full review: https://cannibalhalflinggaming.com/2024/12/26/tales-of-the-red-hope-reborn-cyberpunk-red-campaign-review/

"I think something like Hope Reborn was desperately needed and long overdue for Cyberpunk RED." - Seamus Conneely

A great campaign that definitely hits its goal of being street level. You get to meet and rub shoulders with some Night City legends and can get well on your way to becoming one. It's great to be back in the Forlorn Hope.

Tonally dissonant with the rest of Cyberpunk RED. It feels like I'm reading a D&D 5e adventure for 13 year old kids.

The first part involves some INCREDIBLY kludgy mechanics involving "attacking" environmental hazards with fire extinguishers and other tools, and it just doesn't work. It takes the simple combat system of Cyberpunk RED and in the fashion of a bad 5e supplement tries to shoehorn that into a non-combat encounter and it just doesn't work.

Later on you run around doing skill-tasks for this dumb club with no payoff. Nothing screams "livin' life on the mean streets of Night City" like rolling d10+stat+skill to determine if you get enough weed for the grand re-opening of a new nightclub.

The jobs in between have plenty of gunplay and regular Edgerunner activity. Plausibly if you cut out the dumb carebear stuff, it's playable, but why bother doing that when you can just buy Tales of the Red, or adapt a Cyberpunk 2020 adventure with less hassle?

The writing is really well done and I love the concept. It's little hard to read for newer GMs and will most likely require you to read through the entire adventure, some missions multiple times, in order to understand what the actual story is; more-so than Street Stories.

1 star taken off cause of some issues, including stat blocks which, imo, should be in the book, and high variance in art. Most of the art is beautiful, but certain pieces are below par compared to all the DLCs and other books the company's put out.