Welcome to Anachronox, an abandoned alien artificial planet at the centre of the universe, now home to lowlifes, thieves, and scoundrels. Here we join Sylvester "Sly Boots" Bucelli--a down on his luck PI--and a cast of 6 other unlikely heroes on their quest to discover who or what is trying to destr...
Welcome to Anachronox, an abandoned alien artificial planet at the centre of the universe, now home to lowlifes, thieves, and scoundrels. Here we join Sylvester "Sly Boots" Bucelli--a down on his luck PI--and a cast of 6 other unlikely heroes on their quest to discover who or what is trying to destroy the universe. They are the only ones that believe it is happening, and the only ones that can do something about it.
This title is a very unique game in many ways. The combination of jRPG style turn-based combat, extraordinary characters with their own personalities, an epic and brilliantly told story, colorful graphics, and absolutely hilarious humor is something very rare. You will travel through galaxies, explore bizarre planets, and journey through space and time. There are no easy choices in this game, no obvious, predictable events, no black and white characters. This complexity made the game well reviewed--it has showed up on PC Gamer's Top 100 PC Games list three times!--and will keep you fascinated and amazed for many hours.
Great mix of Japanese and Western style RPG elements with great humor, a gripping story, and a very unique cast of characters.
Excellent storytelling via professional-quality cutscenes and dialogue will accompany you through the entire 50+ hour long adventure.
Huge world to explore with many secrets to discover and mysteries to solve. One playthrough is, by far, not enough to see it all.
Competent but unremarkable 3D science-fantasy jrpg
Anachronox is the kind of game that you can play, enjoy, and then set down and never think about again. It's not bad. It's not even bland. It just doesn't stand out against the better entries in the genre, nor does it make any attempt at solving the problems inherent in the genre.
If you absolutely love 3D science-fantasy jrpgs, then you might as well play this one too, after playing all of the better entries in the genre. If you're not a fan of that particular subgenre, then this game is certainly not going to change your mind.
I did not play this game when it originally came out, so I came to the experience with a clean palette not knowing what to expect.
TL;DR
The game is broken on so many levels, not just because of age.
So I was thinking what could be so wrong with a game made in the golden age of 3d games of the early 2000s and made by eidos? apparently a lot.
The acting for starters, so bad, not resident evil bad, but so bad. add to that the dialog cuts and pauses caused by the engine and you get the worst storytelling experience ever.
And that is accompanied by the biggest flaw in the game, the pace. everything and I do mean everything is slow. painfully slow, as in get up to the bathroom come back and then continue without missing a thing slow.
This is not a technical bug, it's how the game was designed. battles are slow, walking is slow and spoken text is also slow. to the point, you feel tired after a session of the game and not in a good way.
I will touch on combat lastly, yes, it was relatively a new genre in the west, doing RPGs that are not based on d&d, but they could have looked at any RPG from japan to avoid all the pitfalls of the combat.
I'll list a few areas where the combat is broken, compared to my vast RPG experience from all over the world.
1. Buttons placed in weird unintuitive places, and the icons not clear enough to understand what they do.
2. Filling the ATB takes ages, and when you do finally attack the animations are slow and convoluted.
3. Missing happens way too much, and stats and levels do nothing.
4. Skills and magic and items are mostly unused to the point you forget they exist.
And I'll end on one final thought, this game tried to be a lot of things, and succeded in none.
Stay away and keep your money for something good.
I don't know if this version is updated and fixed, but the original game had serious bugs issue and if I remember correctly problem with some missions. If this is the fixed version, and you don't mind the early modern age 3D graphics, go for it. If it is not fixed, and/or you have a problem with low resolution textures and polygon count you can count with your naked eye, don't buy it. The heart of the game is made of gold, but there is plenty of dirt around.
I love the theme and style of the game, but actually playing it is a chore. Dont be misled by all the 5 star reviews. The god damn combat is sooooooooooooo bad that i just couldnt get through it. Theres stuff to like here, but the gameplay is a joke. Trust me, it aged really REALLY badly.
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