User blog comment:Aeratus/Guide to the Adam Jensen Clone Theory/@comment-178.214.10.194-20171008131823/@comment-72.205.54.163-20171009030531

That shot of Jensen in the water in the trailer/opening credits is vague as to how long from the point of collapse it represents (perhaps after a few weeks, the ocean current has agitated the debris). That shot does show Jensen floating face down, which is characteristic of someone who is dead. The intervention of the sentinel implant was told to Jensen by a colleague of Vadim Orlov, and cannot be expected to be the full and complete story as to why Jensen is still "alive."

As to "cliche" storytelling, I would respectfully disagree on this point. This game has a cyberpunk theme, where bodies are interchangable and fungible, and the line between a natural human and an artificial construct is blurred. Plot elements like this are to be expected, just like how one would expect there to be elves in a high fantasy game. Thus, I see nothing inherently wrong with clone storylines for a cyberpunk game. So far, the clone storyline hasn't featured in the main plot, but is just something lurking in the background for players to debate.

Maybe the term "clone" has too many negative connotations, and the more appropriate question is "Did Adam Jensen get a replacement body?" instead of "Is Adam Jensen a clone?"