Keylocker is a Cyberpunk, turn-based, rhythm JRPG wherein you play as singer/songwriter B0B0, a doppelganger who rebels in opposition to her caste, Saturn, utilizing music. This recreation was impressed by the Mario & Luigi RPG sequence and Chronotrigger and was a blast to play.
While you first begin a brand new recreation, it offers you a fast and barely imprecise cutscene with hidden messages and lore trickled all through. After the cutscene, the sport drops you off within the prologue, Abberant Decoding. It’s right here the place it explains that you just’ve been imprisoned and are planning to interrupt out. With assist out of your brother, you achieve the prospect. Earlier than you can begin the actual recreation although, it’s important to select your class.
There are 4 lessons to select from: Juggernaut, Samurai, Hacker, and Sequencer. Juggernaut and Hacker are offensive lessons, whereas Samurai and Sequencer are defensive lessons. Every class begins with totally different strikes and has totally different gameplay. They can’t be modified when you decide, so select properly.
After that, you hop proper into the tutorial the place you’re taught a few of the fundamentals, then dropped you into fight which I’ll discuss in a second. After the prologue, you get to decide on your problem, Gentle Punk (simple), Cyber Punk (regular), and Hardcore Punk (laborious), in addition to a fourth locked problem, Horror Punk.
Fight on this recreation is tough. It doesn’t matter what problem you’re on, it doesn’t matter what class you select, this recreation’s fight is simply flat-out tough and irritating. All the things have to be timed completely or else you’ll be taking harm and/otherwise you received’t deal any harm. There are mini video games for every motion, after which there are different mini video games to dodge assaults made in opposition to you. For those who mess up on something in both set of mini video games, your strikes are a lot weaker, and assaults in opposition to you deal a bunch extra harm. This makes fight very irritating to take care of, making it really feel like a chore each time fight begins.
You stage up with a customizable ability tree with keys that you just get from profitable battles. This ability tree is resettable, which is good in case you unintentionally improve one thing you didn’t need to. All through the sport, you can even discover totally different weapons and skills that you may equip. These will be purchased in some locations and located in chests that are sprinkled all through the world.
Every space within the recreation may be very well-detailed and distinctive. They every have their very own particular particulars and characters with distinctive dialogue and interactions. The characters all have their very own character, motives, and beliefs, which is one thing that I actually like about Moonana Video games’ characters. All their characters, facet characters, and primary characters work together otherwise with every little thing, and I simply completely find it irresistible.
The visuals of the sport are good, however there are some outliers. The eye to element is wonderful; there’s a variety of distinct individuality between every character’s look. However not every little thing at all times traces up; a few of the strolling animations don’t work and line up as they need to. This might be nice in the event that they weren’t very noticeable, however it occurs in cutscenes as effectively, which ruins the immersion of some elements for me. The visuals of the fight and every assault are all very effectively made. And whereas generally the animation of the assaults doesn’t at all times line up with what they’re hitting, I nonetheless assume it seems good.
The audio and—extra particularly—the music of the sport are, undoubtedly, wonderful. Every tune is phenomenal and important to the story and plot of the sport. The sound results are additionally nice, lining up completely with every assault and transfer. I additionally love the truth that you’re in a position to change what music you’re listening to through the menu.
I solely got here throughout a few bugs and actual issues with the sport itself. A whole lot of quests simply don’t work, and others can’t be progressed—which will be very irritating. The sport additionally generally simply crashes everytime you work together with the setting. This may be particularly annoying because of the truth that there’s no autosaving on this recreation. Lastly, enemies will generally simply cease in the course of fight and never do something which is able to drive you to restart the combat. That is actually annoying, particularly if you happen to had been about to win.
The worldbuilding, characters, story, and space designs are completely wonderful. The music and sound results sound flawless, and particularly the music is crucial to every little thing the sport is about. The fight may very well be made a little bit simpler however if you happen to’re decided sufficient then it shouldn’t be an issue.
