Question about Risette (spoiler)

[Madscientist]

Is she an android (completely artificial) or a cyborg (human with implants)?

I finished the game and I am still not certain. I have not played part 2.
What I know:
- She says she is 20 years old but she has her current body since one year.
- She wants to save money so she can buy her body from the company.
- Van worked with her for more than a year, but when she comes to his office it is the first time they meet each other in person.
- We find herbs in the mine that help against pain. After she is injured she says: I did not expect that we need this for me. The fact that herbal medicine works makes me think she is partly organic.
- In a bonding event she gets upgrades that are better connected with her brain. This implies she has a brain.

I came up with the following possibilities:
- She is a human who had a disease or accident and one year ago she got a body that allows her to walk around.
- She was build as a cyborg made of organic and mechanic parts (like the original Ghost in the Shell anime) and she got an updated body a year ago.
- She is a computer programm and she got a physical body a year ago.

The thechnological developement in this world is super fast, so a 20 year old cyborg or AI seems odd. So my best bet is that she is a human with implants.

[Koby]

She's human with robotic body parts.

[rachaellikesblue]

Yep, she's human with robot parts. I do wonder if there's going to be a reveal that the only human part of her is her brain. Van did say that he suspects that a lot of her is artificial, so there's a possibility that it's more than just her limbs.

[Madscientist]

Thanks

When she is injured she looks exactly like 9S in Nier Automata (well, he spilled lots of oil when loosing his arm and leg) and he definitely is an androide.

Maybe the end of the intro of Nier Automata was an inspiration to the devs.

[Allfather]

Based on Kuro 2, she has human brain and human neuro system. Also she mentions how she lost her body and it's a miracle how she was able to recieve this robotic body, although she sometimes laments how it never gonna be able to replace her original body. Her story should be revelead more in upcoming Kai no Kiseki.

[steven]

It IS said in Daybreak 1, but not really explain in detail (can't say about Daybreak 2, didn't play it) :

She is a human (20 yo) and had an accident one year ago.
Her employer gave her prosthetics and she works to repay them.
So she has a body of flesh with robotics parts : she has a human brain, maybe one normal leg or arm ?, can't say anything about heart, lungs, kidneys.... but some / most of her body were replaced (we saw a leg and an arm at least, maybe more parts like eyes, ears, both legs and arms, internal organs ? i don't know... )

She can't be an android since she is too much human for orbal technology to simulate her as a sentient AI (technology is not so advanced) and worked with Van before the accident.
Androids 20 years ago were not a thing (you saw in Daybreak, the best orbal AI thing we have is holocore that can't even have a basic discussion with their owner) , so she was born human first.