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.
This is a highly original and entertaining adventure. Good story, great characters and quite good voice acting for such an old game.
You never truly know what to expect next in this game which keeps you interested almost all the way through. It drags on slightly towards the end though.
The game is by no means perfect and is what you might call an unpolished gem. But it is definitely worth a playthrough if you like a sci-fi themed rpg adventure with a witty dialogue.
There. It's included with the game. Saved you hours of frustration, config editing, patching and troubleshooting. You can even set the game to launch the GCT Launcher by default when you hit "Play."
Now, for the game itself - after several hours of the above, once I finally had it running smoothly, got absolutely sucked in, only expected to play for a half-hour or so and ended up playing nearly four hours and am excited to get back in and play more. The controls take a little bit to get used to, but after an hour, they'll be second nature. I was surprised at the quality of the humor, voice acting and general immersiveness of the game. It's good. Like, holds up today good.
The models, environments and such are blocky "as was the style at the time", but the artistry is there. The environments have lots of background animation and scripting that combines to make each area more impressive than the sum of its parts. The real-time battles taking place in those same environments only add to the feeling that everything takes place in the world. It's wonderfully done.
I'll likely update this review after I've finished the game - but considering a lot of people start up old games and never complete them, I'll say this for anyone who wants to know if four hours of Anachronox is worth the few dollars you'll spend on it? Absolutely.
Such a special game to me and one that is very unique. A western take on the JRPG genre with such an incredibly unique world, amazing music and atmosphere as well as very solid storytelling and characters.
One of my all time favorite RPGs. Rough around the edges for sure, but well written, funny and absolutely oozing with personality. Definitely worth a playthrough or dozen.
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