ANNO: Mutationem

Was really surprised by this game, was way better and more polished than expected. I'm not normally a big fan of pixel art, but the way the pixel characters and textures merged so well with the 3D models was really impressive. Gave the visuals ton of character. I enjoyed the light platforming and the more involved combat right until the very end. Felt like the skill tree was good but not overwhelming. The story starts out more standard cyberpunk, but then things get stranger. Feels like by the end you need to read a lot of the in-game lore to properly keep up. Played on steam deck and enjoyed the experience. Would recommend.

It´s not a bad game... the graphics are eye-catching and the combat is OK, but either the translation was awfully done or the dialogue was written by ChatGPT. You enter the mafia´s ship, destroy every enemy in your path, and randomly, the SECRETARY of the mob boss says: this is not the place to search for trouble... Like WTF? I lost any interest in decent writing a while ago, but this was insanely bad. Oh boy... I just saw the ending... it gets WORSE! What is this bad Evangelion rip-off? The plot makes no sense and it´s filled with unfunny jokes and unconnected tropes, the loading screens take forever, cutscenes and plot in general is unnecesserily slow

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Gets too grindy and too hard even on easy by the end. Not enough meaningful upgrades, enemies have too much HP. Gets tedious and frustrating.

I liked what they tried to do, but I started to hate the gameplay and towards the end I just quit and watched the rest on youtube... Combat did not click for me, and the hacking minigames got too complicated towards the end and you just can't skip them, AFAIK. The main character's motivation is too simple, and the story is full of redacted text, villains without names, and overall you have a vague idea of what's going on but you understand nothing. On the positive side: art style is adorable, and I also liked all the references to the anime culture. I'm glad I paid for my copy, but I hope their next game will be more polished and interesting.

cool visuals, combat is ok from the start but gets boring fast. Story is the worst part. Have to find your brother, fight a shadow corporation, obvious inspiration from Evangelion, isnt too interesting. This game tries to add too many things and doesn't do most of them well. Its a simple 2D platformer like megaman but the fighting is too repetative along with the boss fights. Once you go underground and fight the boss there you've seen 90% of the game. It felt like figuring out the ending of a movie in the first 10min. You start the game thinking that theres going to be alot to do since it looks so nice, but then you realize that the devs only focused on the environment design and character design. Early into the game they keep placing things to loot and dismantle, but you already know that its just there to fluff. You realize that pretty quick and just dont explore anymore bc all you get is a junk item meant to be dismantled. You'd think that this game would have alot in it since its just a 32bit pixel game, not unlike Dave the Diver, which has alot more to offer and is a more complete experience. Its such a shame, considering a talented artist like Ilya is the face of this game.

Наверно, очень с натяжкой рекомендую. В начале очень затягивает и цепляет, но в целом оказывается довольно рядовой инди-игрой, где локация проходится дольше из-за обилия текста, а не интересных событий, катсцены содержат просто диалоги, которые наполненные долгими паузами, а прокачка не имеет особого смысла, т.к. бои занимают там минут 30 от всего прохождения (и это если не считать, что все противники побеждаются техникой "перекат-бьешь в спину"). Сюжет там в целом сойдет, если не считать подачу. Персонажи в конце появляются, конечно, такие, что мозг взрывается от их "логики". Хотя финальная локация в принципе обделена логикой, включая сбор лута на ней. Резюмируя скажу, что в игре очень много пустоты и неиспользованных потенциалов, которые могли бы оживить мир игры и придать смысл каким-то решениям. А так это 6/10 (спасибо, что прошел)

I'm so on the fence on whether or not I would recommend this game. If this game lasted longer and had more levels, it would be an easy yes. The combat is satisfying, it has a simple but fun upgrade tree, and it even has some appealing characters. I don't usually go super in-depth with reviews, so I'll keep this simple. Positives: Fun combat system, cool enemy designs, good soundtrack, and absolutely fantastic set design and art style. Negatives: Plot feels rushed, characters are introduced 10 minutes before never seeing them again, nothing is explained until the end and even then I still have a million questions. I'd say recommended, but maybe don't pay full price like I did. It's about ten hours of main story content(if you're really good at games like this and skip reading you could probably do it in four). Buy it on sale.