Keylocker is a Cyberpunk, turn-based, rhythm JRPG through which you play as singer/songwriter B0B0, a doppelganger who rebels in opposition to her caste, Saturn, the usage of song. This recreation used to be impressed through the Mario & Luigi RPG collection and Chronotrigger and used to be a blast to play.
While you first get started a brand new recreation, it offers you a snappy and fairly obscure cutscene with hidden messages and lore trickled right through. After the cutscene, the sport drops you off within the prologue, Abberant Interpreting. It’s right here the place it explains that you just’ve been imprisoned and are making plans to wreck out. With lend a hand out of your brother, you achieve the risk. Earlier than you’ll be able to get started the actual recreation although, you could have to make a choice your magnificence.
There are 4 categories to make a choice from: Juggernaut, Samurai, Hacker, and Sequencer. Juggernaut and Hacker are offensive categories, whilst Samurai and Sequencer are defensive categories. Each and every magnificence begins with other strikes and has other gameplay. They can’t be modified when you select, so select correctly.
After that, you hop proper into the educational the place you’re taught one of the most fundamentals, then dropped you into struggle which I’ll discuss in a 2nd. After the prologue, you get to make a choice your issue, Cushy Punk (simple), Cyber Punk (standard), and Hardcore Punk (laborious), in addition to a fourth locked issue, Horror Punk.
Struggle on this recreation is difficult. It doesn’t matter what issue you’re on, it doesn’t matter what magnificence you select, this recreation’s struggle is solely flat-out tricky and irritating. The entirety will have to be timed completely or else you’ll be taking injury and/otherwise you received’t deal any injury. There are mini video games for each and every motion, after which there are different mini video games to dodge assaults made in opposition to you. If you happen to reduce to rubble on the rest in both set of mini video games, your strikes are a lot weaker, and assaults in opposition to you deal a number extra injury. This makes struggle very irritating to maintain, making it really feel like a chore each and every time struggle 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 if you by chance improve one thing you didn’t wish to. All through the sport, you’ll be able to additionally in finding other guns and talents that you’ll be able to equip. Those can also be purchased in some puts and located in chests which might be sprinkled right through the sector.
Each and every house within the recreation could be very well-detailed and distinctive. They each and every have their very own particular main points and characters with distinctive discussion 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 major characters have interaction another way with the entirety, and I simply completely find it irresistible.
The visuals of the sport are just right, however there are some outliers. The eye to element is astounding; there’s a large number of distinct individuality between each and every personality’s look. However now not the entirety all the time traces up; one of the most strolling animations don’t paintings and line up as they must. This could be effective in the event that they weren’t very noticeable, but it surely occurs in cutscenes as nicely, which ruins the immersion of a few portions for me. The visuals of the struggle and each and every assault are all rather well made. And whilst from time to time the animation of the assaults doesn’t all the time line up with what they’re hitting, I nonetheless suppose it appears just right.
The audio and—extra particularly—the song of the sport are, surely, wonderful. Each and every music is exceptional and crucial to the tale and plot of the sport. The sound results also are nice, lining up completely with each and every assault and transfer. I additionally love the truth that you’re ready to modify what song you’re being attentive to by way of the menu.
I most effective got here throughout a few insects and actual issues of the sport itself. Numerous quests simply don’t paintings, and others can’t be improved—which can also be very irritating. The sport additionally from time to time simply crashes each time you have interaction with the surroundings. This can also be particularly anxious because of the truth that there’s no autosaving on this recreation. Finally, enemies will from time to time simply prevent in the course of struggle and now not do the rest which is able to pressure you to restart the battle. That is actually anxious, particularly for those who have been about to win.
The worldbuilding, characters, tale, and house designs are completely wonderful. The song and sound results sound flawless, and particularly the song is very important to the entirety the sport is ready. The struggle might be made a bit of more straightforward however for those who’re decided sufficient then it shouldn’t be an issue.
