Keylocker is a Cyberpunk, turn-based, rhythm JRPG by which 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.
Whenever you first begin a brand new recreation, it provides 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 possibility. Earlier than you can begin the actual recreation although, you must select your class.
There are 4 courses to select from: Juggernaut, Samurai, Hacker, and Sequencer. Juggernaut and Hacker are offensive courses, whereas Samurai and Sequencer are defensive courses. Every class begins with completely different strikes and has completely different gameplay. They can’t be modified when you choose, so select correctly.
After that, you hop proper into the tutorial the place you’re taught a number 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, Comfortable 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. Every part should 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. When you 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 cope with, 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 successful battles. This ability tree is resettable, which is sweet in case you unintentionally improve one thing you didn’t wish to. All through the sport, you may also discover completely different weapons and talents which you could equip. These may be purchased in some locations and located in chests that are sprinkled all through the world.
Every space within the recreation could 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, aspect characters, and most important characters work together otherwise with every thing, and I simply completely like it.
The visuals of the sport are good, however there are some outliers. The eye to element is wonderful; there’s a whole lot of distinct individuality between every character’s look. However not every thing all the time traces up; a number of the strolling animations don’t work and line up as they need to. This is able to be high-quality in the event that they weren’t very noticeable, but it surely occurs in cutscenes as nicely, which ruins the immersion of some components for me. The visuals of the fight and every assault are all very nicely made. And whereas typically the animation of the assaults doesn’t all the time line up with what they’re hitting, I nonetheless assume it seems to be good.
The audio and—extra particularly—the music of the sport are, indisputably, wonderful. Every track 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 capable of change what music you’re listening to by way of the menu.
I solely got here throughout a few bugs and actual issues with the sport itself. A number of quests simply don’t work, and others can’t be progressed—which may be very irritating. The sport additionally typically simply crashes everytime you work together with the surroundings. This may be particularly annoying as a consequence of the truth that there’s no autosaving on this recreation. Lastly, enemies will typically simply cease in the midst of fight and never do something which can power you to restart the combat. That is actually annoying, particularly should you 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 important to every thing the sport is about. The fight could possibly be made a bit of simpler however should you’re decided sufficient then it shouldn’t be an issue.
