ANNO: Mutationem

Tried this game due to me being a fan of Cyberpunk-type story, and it was a decent experience. Liked the vibe of the world and the overall gameplay. Can see influences/inspirations from games I'm familiar with and a fan of, such as Deus Ex (especially regarding the music!), Cyberpunk 2077, Megaman, and also quite a bit of Parasite Eve II for a reason. Music is also spot-on, and the combat is rather simple but quite challenging, especially on the later part of the story. Unfortunately what I find to be lacking is... the story. Liked the initial part when we are introduced to the characters and the world, but as we get deeper into the story, I feel the focus veered off-course pretty far: 1. What initially is a cyberpunk story gradually turned into sci-fi horror and supernaturals 2. The subplot of "chasing this person" dragged on way too long and kind of unnatural for our protagonist so laser-focused to it, even ignoring the big secrets unraveled while on this quest and went through tremendous abnormalities like they were nothing. 3. Same thing with the focus on the characters. As the story deepens, the protagonist felt like insignificant due to the characters from a certain party took majority of the screentime. The way they're portrayed also kind of trying too hard to be edgy. 4. The handling of characters are somewhat messy, with the important ones kind of left with minimal appearance and explanation and missing from the story just like that, while the insignificant ones get quite too much spotlight. Overall, the game's still a good experience to play, and even better if you play in Japanese dub. (This is a big plus for me).

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모든 도전과제 완료까지 걸린시간 15시간 사이버펑크 분위기는 아주 매력적이고 시각적으로 훌륭한데, 이상한 판타지 양념이 잘못 묻어서 애매한 게임 작가가 본인만 이해하는 설정을 유저가 당연히 알겠거니, 깊게 파고들겠거니 하고 대충 넘겼는지 개연성과 스토리라인을 이해하기 어려웠다. 텍스트 중간 불필요하게 생략시킨 단어 때문에 집중이 흐트러진다. 과도하게 왜곡된 시점, 과도하게 흔들리는 시점 등 개발자가 영상적으로 다양한 시도를 해본 것 같다는 느낌을 받는다. 게임의 깊이는 얕았지만 사이버 펑크 분위기만은 훌륭하다.

Great game. I love the 2D/3D graphics in this game. The visuals were seriously killer! Gameplay and progression were really good too. Totally recommend this game!

At the time of this review I have beaten the worm boss, which could be considered the 3rd Boss, and unlocked Light Sword, Great Sword and a Gun ANNO: Mutationem has a very catchy mix of anime art style and pixel art, all of this without loosing the unique look and feel of each character. It's voice acted and each character has it's own feel, look and personality, all this comes with it's respective subtitles. The game offers a small and limited cosmetic customization at first in what it is, your character outfit, that gets expanded as you go playing, more progress more outfits to choose from. The fighting and world exploration feels better played in a controller rather than keyboard and mouse, in my case in specifically. The fights are fun and fast paced, and avoidable when you are in a hurry, but this applies only to trash MOBS, until you reach unavoidable enemies to defeat. Each hit has a good feedback of what damage you just did, be this Melee, heavy hit, or ranged be this a gun or a grenade also offering weapons . Weapons are customizable by a chip slot mechanic and a talent tree for your character. The world and main story has proven to be interesting enough to keep you hooked wanting to learn more about the world and the Main Scenario Quest line, about the events of the world and the events related to you. Overall the gameplay, world and story has been fun and engaging.

A unique hack & slash sidescroller. The visual polish is incredible. Characters and enemies are remarkably detailed sprites with superb animation cycles. That in itself is impressive, but the detail, and the layers of filtering placed upon the world at large brings the personality of ANNO to the fore. The backgrounds are fully rendered in 3D, but for 90% of the game, you will forget the characters are not. Unfortunately, the other 10% is jarring, in that it often conjoins with the story. It's not a bad story; there's quite a lot of humor interspersed throughout, and most of it lands well. I suppose the crux of my dissatisfaction is that there are questions raised as larger features of the world that are introduced and teased early. You spend the whole game wondering about them. At the terminus of the story, those questions are left hanging entirely; mankind doesn't understand them either. So they were interesting, but... somewhat infuriating. I suppose my only recourse is to take things more lightly, but the projected complexity in world and story makes that... difficult. Sound design is well chosen, and the music fits very well. The combat also works very well, and can be quite fun. Recovering health is a slow process over time, so sitting at low HP can go fully sideways very quickly. Coupled with certain enemies whose attacks can reduce you from full to 0 if they catch you in a specific way... That can chafe, somewhat. Still, I do highly recommend playing it. The movie poster artwork alone is probably worth it.

i jizzed al over the screen!!