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ANNO Mutationem Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET ‘Cyberpunk’ has become a bit of a dirty word in games as of late after a certain game’s widely-publicised rough launch. However, video games and the cyberpunk aesthetic have gone hand in hand for almost as long as the medium has existed. From SNES-era titles like Shadowrun and Hideo Kojima’s wildly underappreciated Snatcher and Policenauts; to the present where we find games like Astral Chain, VA-11 HALL-A, and — yes — Cyberpunk 2077. In fact, it’s so common in games that it becomes harder and harder to be wow-ed by the aesthetic. Despite this, ANNO: Mutationem pulled us in right away. ANNO (no relation to the popular city building simulator of the same name) is an action-RPG that comes courtesy of indie developer ThinkingStars in conjunction with Sony’s China Hero Project. After launching on Playstation platforms and PC in March, it makes its way to Nintendo’s hybrid with a near-flawless conversion, only let down by some long load times and the occasional frame rate dip. Throughout the 12-or-so-hour campaign, you take on the role of Ann Flores. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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A young woman living in Skopp City. Ann is afflicted by a mysterious illness called entangelitis, which causes her to black out and go berserk, attacking everything in her sight and being impervious to damage. She soon finds out that her brother, Ryan, has gone missing searching for N540, a medicine that can suppress the effects of her disease. However, during his search he got involved with a band of thugs named Factio Pugini. So, Ann sets out to find Ryan and, possibly, the cure for her disease. On her journey Ann is supported by her not-explicitly-stated-but-sure-seems-like girlfriend Ayane, who is projecting her image by means of a small robot. She chimes in constantly throughout the game and while initially we thought she could become annoying, she ended up being one of our favourite characters over the course of the journey. The relationship between her and Ann carries much of the plot, helped tremendously by great voice performances from Suzie Yeung and Lizzie Freeman. The narrative mystery is interesting and keeps you on your toes.

Explore and discover.

A secret organisation by the name of the Consortium is introduced via cutscenes randomly spliced between area load screens. At first, it seems like nonsense, evoking memories of Kingdom Hearts’ incoherent Organisation XIII rambling, but it does all come together in a satisfying way towards the end of the game. Not the best start, then, but it wraps itself up well in the end. Between the gorgeous sprite work and its use of voxels, ANNO is a treat to look at. The gameplay is split into two styles, with 2D side-scrolling and exploratory segments in which you traverse through 3D environments with your 2D character. The depth in these areas is impressive, from how dense the cities feel to little details like how the light pierces through your blinds in the intro. The investigation-focused exploration segments mainly consist of talking to people and finding items, and the 2D sections are where the combat takes place. The bulk of the game has you switching between these styles all the time. Dungeons will swap between perspectives from room to room, which can be a little jarring in places, but works well for the most part. Running With Rifles

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Combat takes inspiration from games like Devil May Cry (or at least a 2D take on it) with a style that focuses on both melee and gunplay. While your initial kit is basic, through the use of a skill tree and unlockable weapons, you soon have a solid inventory of moves and gear to play around with. For the most part, combat isn’t particularly challenging; barring the odd death here and there, we only really struggled with one specific difficulty spike near the game’s finale. There’s a litany of sidequests you can take on around the game’s five city areas. These jobs range from being your common or garden go place, hit guy, get thing quests to part-time bartending. The best of these include engaging investigations like searching an apartment to find where a suspect has disappeared to, or finding out who is throwing trash off the balcony in a high rise. ANNO wears its inspirations on its sleeve, and fans of Neon Genesis Evangelion will no doubt pick up references from the very first cutscene; there are visuals that feel directly lifted from Hideaki Anno’s 1995 anime.

Showing new perspective.

The game also owes a lot of its visual design to Ghost in the Shell, and Blade Runner, as well as the SCP Foundation’s influence on the Consortium. When I think back on my time with plucky cyberpunk beat-em-up Anno: Mutationem, the first thing I think of is that I wish they’d included a pronunciation guide for that mouthful of a faux Latin title. But the second thing that comes to mind is attitude. From the colorful, retro chic art style to the endearing, ass-kicking protagonist, this is a world with a strong sense of identity that knows from the first minute how it wants to make you feel – even though the story told there sometimes seems a bit more lost. The streets of futuristic Skopp City are where most of the action takes place: it’s a delightful chrome and concrete sprawl packed with influences from the likes of Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell. Its various districts each use color, sound, and small environmental details to create a textured world that manages to feel bright and homey in spite of its bleak backstory.Cursed to Golf Switch NSP

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I had a lot of fun exploring its bars, shops, and alleyways, listening to random conversations and discovering out-of-the-way secrets. It’s not exactly a groundbreaking setting – though some Stranger Things-esque weirdness brings a dash of spice to it – but it’s one I would happily spend a lot more time in. When trouble comes to these streets, the capable and daring Ann Flores is ready to shoot, slash, and smash her way through hordes of thugs, robots, and mutants. Combat is responsive, well-paced, and in its best moments the enemy design and flow of battle reminded me of old-school Mega Man. There are plenty of interesting and challenging bosses and lieutenants to pound to a pulp, and the fact that you need to wear down their shields with slower heavy attacks to unlock powerful finishers, while dealing damage with quicker light attacks, makes each scrap more tactically interesting than button mashing away at a health bar. The one kind of annoying thing is that there are a few too many encounters that rely on infinitely respawning minions for my taste.

Ann kicks Ass.

There are lots of ways to make a boss fight harder, and I’m just not fond of that one. Ann’s progression as a professional ass kicker comes from two skill trees, where beating story bosses gives you currency to improve your base stats and beating normal enemies lets you unlock new moves. This ends up working out really well, because you can’t really grind to become way too powerful for any given area, but earning yourself a new heavy slash or improving the effectiveness of your parry provides you with more tools to experiment with and put together the the right fighting style for tougher encounters. A lot of the main story takes place off the grid in lengthy, varied dungeon crawls that create a sense of isolation and are a nice contrast to running around town doing odd jobs. There’s always a hint that they’re part of a slowly unraveling mystery, but this didn’t save me from feeling like I was kind of being led by my nose with too thin of a connecting motivation. The places you get to explore along the way, from a secret lab full of mutant plants to a hidden civilization of cyborgs.

They are genuinely interesting and weave into a richly detailed world. It’s just missing a smoother flow between them to save it from turning into a whirlwind tour that sometimes seems much less interested in why you’re discovering these places than it is in the places themselves. The huge, colorful cast of characters represents both one of Anno’s most visible strengths and weaknesses. There’s limited voice acting, but where it pops up, it’s really well done. Especially Ann herself, voiced in English by the fantastic Suzie Yeung, who comes across as a confident and driven young woman trying to make sense of a mysterious and traumatic past. The dialogue writing itself, though, isn’t quite as impressive. There are a lot of times where what’s being spoken doesn’t match up with the written captions on screen, and far too many conversations felt like rushed exposition that wasn’t presented in a very naturalistic way. Sometimes Anno simply throws too many new characters at you, often in one-off cutscenes that won’t make any sense until much later in the 20-hour story. While some of the reveals are definitely cool and I like how they’ve put a weird, metaphysical spin on the cyberpunk genre, it felt like maybe the plot was a bit too intricate for its own good. It is trying to do too much.

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With too many cast members who don’t get enough time to develop or make an impact. What little I saw of characters like Ann’s snarky sister Nakamura or the moody cowboy Raymond made me want to get to know them better, but they’re simply shuffled on and off the stage too quickly. The one person you do get to spend plenty of time with is Ann’s best friend Ayane. And, well, I love you girl, but you’re just a bit much sometimes. The bubbly, manic, aggressively gay sidekick who follows you around in the form of a hologram is an effective foil to Ann’s straightforward stoicism, but also reminds me of some of the overcaffeinated anime addicts I hung out with in college, and I often just wished I could tell her to tone it down a couple notches. In her defense, she does sometimes break out of being a living stereotype with moments of emotional depth. A grand story, befitting a rich and dark cyberpunk décor, featuring our main hero Ann Flores and her trusty hyper hacker side-kick Ayane on a personal mission to find out where her missing brother has gone to. Little do the two know just what they will unravel. White Night Switch NSP

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