Cyberpunk Groundhog: Day 2046.Īnd thus, Loopmancer begins proper as you power through the games early levels piecing together evidence and information regarding the disappearance of this journalist and tear through their goons like they’re nothing at all. Your memories have remained but the day has begun again. Chasing a crime lord you get rather brutally murdered by a brutally generic crime maestro and wake up back in your apartment in your bed. You’re playing as Xiang Zixu, a detective pulled into the games central narrative to investigate the disappearance of a journalist. Let’s just ignore the central narrative conceit of cybernetic implants and bionic prosthetics that have become an obsession. They’re completely different games in a similar visual aesthetic and that’s about it. It feels like a fair more straightforward version of 2077, taking the best of the genre and packing it into a roguelike adventure full of replayability and hack and slashing goodness without the bloat and the nonsensical story beats that plague CDPR’s dull, empty world. Its visual style is complemented by a cracking soundtrack, immediately grabbing you and making me say out loud ‘yeah, I can get into this’. Perhaps it belongs in this 2D form? It’s certainly doing wonders for the likes of Loopmancer, Cloudpunk and well, The Last Night, should that one ever see the light of day.Īfter receiving preview code for Loopmancer, I ended up taking it upon myself to tear through the game and now I finally have a laptop that can run games with a little more visual fidelity than Solitaire, it seemed to be a good one to test out just how shiny I can get my games.įrom the outset, Loopmancer is gorgeous. Let’s not get into what CDPR has done to the ‘cyberpunk’ genre as a whole. The neon-drenched Cyberpunktopia that floods every frame of Loopmancer is certainly its strongest asset, even if we’re beginning to get a little bored with the aesthetic at this point. When throwing this one out to the Finger Guns guys to see who wanted to cover it, it was mostly a collective ‘wow, this looks awesome’. Loopmancer from eBrain Studio certainly had a fancy trailer. Loopmancer is a gorgeous Cyberpunk-tale, but there’s still some work to be done to make it one to really look forward to. Loopmancer is a gorgeous Cyberpunk-tale, but there's still some work to be done to make it one to really look forward to.
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