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Encodya will be available on Windows PC, Mac, and Linux platforms via Steam and GOG on 26th January, 2021, for £19.99.
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With more than 35 NPCs to bring the story to life and over 4,000 lines of dialogue, Encodya offers a beautifully grim adventure that gracefully nods to the real-world atrocities of our current society. The original soundtrack creates a thrilling atmosphere to explore the menacing world of Neo-Berlin in 2.5D with the two playable characters, Tina and SAM-53. Wishlist Encodya and let’s explore the future together on January 26th!” About Encodyaīased on the animated short called “ Robot Will Protect You ,” and inspired by the atmosphere of Blade Runner and the poignant storytelling of Studio Ghibli, Encodya features a distinctive art style and deep, immersive sound design. “It is the lovechild of our studio’s desire to create something totally unique to the genre while also bringing attention to the future we could head into. You may want to pick it up and start teasing it out.“Bringing Encodya to life is a dream come true for our studio, and the characters and topics in the game perfectly tackle the real-world issues we aimed to address,” said Nicola Piovesan, Founder of Chaosmonger Studio. Charming without being facile, there’s a lot packed into Encodya. Not a game for me, then, but very likely one for you if you’re a genre fan. The very stuff that puts me off them is what draws others in, so I totally understand it’s all very deliberate. Adventure games bore me half to death after a few minutes of slow traversal, repeat conversations as I try and work out what to do next, and puzzles that flit between simplistic and obscure. Cel shading over broke-down, gritty futurism works well at evoking the right feelings for the type of experience you’re meant to be having.Īs per my first paragraph, though, I might not be the right fit for this game. There’s a lovely visual effect in the game giving it a cartoon style, but feels more rough-edged and middle-European than the smooth-edged, sunshiney perfection that comes out of California. SAM usually represents the ability to logically progress whereas Tina is more effective at dragging feelings and opinions out of people, and you’ll need both to get by. What they weren’t was aggressive or threatening, and Neo Berlin soon starts to feel like a large, somewhat empty playground for Tina to muck about in and dive into its more intriguing crannies.Īs someone not a fan of these games, the ‘get such and such from a person then combine it with this item in this location to achieve a result’ isn’t all that familiar to me, but did put me in mind of Shenmue to a certain degree, especially the way you have to have RPG-like encounters at given times and places to unlock progression.Ī welcome wrinkle is that you can switch between Tina and SAM at will, each having a different effect on conversations. In my time with it, adults were distant figures that were alternately kindly, patronising, dismissive and concerned. The tone of Encodya leans more towards Disney than Ridley Scott, mind. Orphaned and without familial support, scavenging for food and supplies is your daily grind – it’s (little orphan) Annie mixed with Blade Runner.
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Followed around by her lumbering, benign companion robot SAM-53 you’re tasked with solving a relatively simple puzzle which is how to survive in a world that has forgotten you and left you behind. You play as a little kid called Tina, who’s a government-issue street urchin. There’s enough in it to feel part of the electro-future we’re inevitably headed for, but without sacrificing the heritage of its Berlin-set backdrop. Aesthetics-wise, it’s a very pleasing example of Euro-flavoured Cyberpunk.
clicking on stuff in the environment to see what it is and what it can do for you, and modern visuals. This is a modern/retro blend of ‘hot spot’ hunting, i.e. I played a little bit of Monkey Island on my Amiga back in the early Nineties, then something something time speeds by, something something 2021, something something old man, and ay up: I’m playing Encodya. It’s a moot point, with the correct answer being (as it is with so many things in life) ‘depends…’ but one thing is a certainty: that I know practically nowt about point and click adventure games. Encodya isn’t a long game, taking around 10 hours to complete, but that back-and-forth exploration prolongs it more than necessary. Does having a strong knowledge create bias? Or provide context? Could a newbie to the genre provide more clarity? I’ve always asked myself the question whether games journos should review within genres they dislike.
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