Baông chồng in 2016 Anima: Gate of Memories successfully got released after being Kickstarted. It wasn"t bad. However, I"ll totally admit I wasn"t expecting it to get a sequel, so news of the upcoming follow-up surprised me. The end result is Anima: Gate of Memories - The Nameless Chronicles a game that is more of a sidequel than a sequel. Does it bởi vì enough lớn be worth playing?
You play as Nameless, a several-thousand-year-old immortal who hunts monsters for a living. When some members of a holy order steal his blood khổng lồ perkhung a ritual, he begins to look into lớn their activities. It"s not long before he ventures into the same mysterious tower from the first game. A toàn thân possessing spirit known as Unknown joins him. Unknown may or may not be his ally và seems khổng lồ have sầu its own agenda. While Nameless has a much better idea of what"s going on than the original clueless duo, there"s still plenty of mysteries he has to figure out.
You"d think that The Nameless Chronicles would hit similar highs and lows as the first game, but it actually does much worse. The vast majority of the nội dung is just copy and pasted from the original game. You"ll rehear the same stories about the same bosses, và tread through some of the same events a second time. There seems to lớn be an assumption that you"ve played the first game and actively rethành viên its story. A lot of those events laông xã the explanation that Anima gave sầu them since it"s assumed Nameless knows more about them.
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It"s only near the very kết thúc, once you get through all the repeated story beats, that you reach some new content. Nameless" story is surprisingly interesting. Learning the life of someone hiding his immortality is way better than I thought it"d be. Sadly the last hour then jumps baông chồng into repeated content and total nonsense that makes the story just as uninteresting as before.
Repetition of nội dung applies lớn the gameplay as well. The basics in The Nameless Chronicles works similar lớn Anima: Gate of Memories, albeit with the major difference that you only play as a single character. In an attempt to lớn still have depth, the H& of Thanathos replaces character swapping. This new power serves as a modifier for abilities. For example, a simple sword swing now becomes a shockwave that knocks enemies over. The idea isn"t bad, but most abilities don"t actually change in a significant enough way lớn matter. In the end, The Nameless Chronicles loses the most interesting feature of Anima"s combat và doesn"t have anything that great lớn replace it with.
Your general goal is to go through zones và collect memories of the boss that resides there. Each boss has three hidden memory fragments that you need to find. The problem is that two of the three zones are ripped right from the first game. One of them, a burning church, at least makes sense. That"s where you had one of your encounters with Nameless in Anima. However, I couldn"t think of any good reason khổng lồ reuse Nascal"s Mansion. Thankfully, both areas lose some of the terrible puzzles & other fat from their past incarnations. Despite that, I still felt like I was just replaying large swaths of the first game.
As I explored each location I fought a ton of bosses. I"m not exaggerating, The Nameless Chronicles loves boss fights. I"d probably cloông chồng the game in at about ten hours. I"m nearly positive I came quite cthất bại to triple digit trùm fights by the kết thúc. The tutorial alone had eight. Worse, the vast majority of these boss fights was just normal enemies with big health bars. There are a couple creative ones, I liked getting lớn fight the heroes from the first game as they used all the skills and mechanics that I remembered, but they"re not the norm. Ultimately, it cheapened the whole idea behind trùm fights, making them feel lượt thích just another throwaway encounter.
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Between stages, you can explore the tower that serves as the game"s hub world. There"s not too much khổng lồ see, but there is a hidden shopkeeper that can make the game a lot easier. Look a little further và you can find an important side quest that ties up the story of Zero, a shadowy masked figure who plays a role in both games. It"s nice that there"s some extra nội dung khổng lồ extover the game, but you ultimately won"t thua kém much if you skip it.
The problem with voice acting is another carryover, and The Nameless Chronicles is trang chính to lớn some absurdly terrible voice acting. Many characters either sound bored lượt thích they couldn"t even care what"s going on or are so overly emotional it gets comedic. I will at least give sầu some applause lớn YouTuber Cr1TiKal, who shows up and sounds like he"s chewing the scenery every time he"s there. Everyone else is just... bad. Especially so with the main character, who may be the most depressed sadsaông xã of an anime character I"ve ever heard.
Thankfully, the soundtraông xã is still amazing. I really appreciate how much work has seemingly gone into it. While the voice acting may not hold up, the soundtrack does a great job in actually making those dramatic scenes feel dramatic. It works best when just exploring the world, or during one of the game"s many trùm fights. After all, no one is trying to talk over it then.
I really wanted to like Anima: Gate of Memories - The Nameless Chronicles. I honestly hoped that a sequel could improve upon the original game in all the right ways. Instead, many elements either felt like they"ve sầu stagnated or took a blatant step backward. The reused levels & story elements don"t help this at all. The whole game gives the vibe that it was supposed lớn be DLC rather than a full sản phẩm. There"s still some fun khổng lồ be found here, but it"s just smashed somewhere between one of the many repetitive sầu trùm fights.
Anima: Gate of Memories - The Nameless Chronicles was reviewed on PlayStation 4 using a copy provided by the publisher. The game is also available on PC and Xbox One, with a Nintendo Switch version coming out on 7/20.11
Anima: Gate of Memories - The Nameless Chronicles is in a weird spot. Many of its elements are either reused from the first game, or made worse. It makes for an uneven adventure that can't hold itself up despite a few bright spots.
Pros
Some Story Moments InterestingOccasionally Fun trùm cuối FightsGreat SoundtrackCr1TiKal
Cons
Most of the Story Boring, ConfusingMany Reused AreasTons of Pointless quái thú FightsTerrible Voice Acting