ANOMALY AGENT
Anomaly Agent is a side-scrolling platformer beat-'em up that takes place in a futuristic cyberpunk world. It features a cool take on a combo system with a focus on parrying. It's pretty similar in structure to Katana ZERO if you've played that before. Remember! Real Agents use a controller.
In Anomaly Agent, you play as Agent 70. You're tasked with defeating anomalies threatening to destroy the balance of the world! Right before your big promotion? How dare they! Along the way you'll meet various levels of ranged and melee enemy clones. When two clones of the same type meet, they'll merge together into a higher tier clone for you to wail on and potentially get a higher combo.
I won't spoil the story in this review, but it's pretty nice and linear. Throughout the story you will be given dialog choices that give either positive or negative emotion points. You can spend these points for more health or more money for skills. I like this system because it creates an incentive to be nice or evil in dialog.
The game has a BEAUTIFUL synthwave soundtrack created by Ali Barutçuoğlu, it perfectly encapsulates the neon lights and 80s future aesthetic. Whether it be relaxing beats while you sneak around clones, or hard hitting synths while you rack up a combo, Anomaly Agent has music for every situation in game. You can purchase the music on Steam or listen to the music on Youtube.
I was introduced to this game by my good Turkish friend Melih, he's the one who translated this review into Turkish! Thanks Melih!
Now, my one problem with the game... Enemies will telegraph their attacks like normal, but they will also flash green or red depending on if you can parry their attack or not. I cannot see red or green. This made the game pretty frustrating for me in the latter half. This complaint is super specific though, so I can't really dock too many points. When the game first launched it didn't support my controller, but they fixed that problem very fast so I trust they'll fix problems like this.
I'll re-review this game when it gets a bigger update or fixes any of my problems
Overall, I give this game a:
