Cyberpunk: Edgerunners: A Neon coloured miracle.

When you bring up the word Cyberpunk or Edgerunners in conversation in today’s day and age, you’re bound to conjure several images in people’s minds. Most would think of pictures of chromed-up bikers with monoband sunglasses and neon flooded streets. Those old enough to remember the original role-playing game will probably smile at fond memories of a rich world and characters. But say Cyberpunk to a gamer, and they would probably scowl, remembering the hype train around Cyberpunk 2077 derailing into a bug-filled crash on launch.

That is, until now. September saw the release of the anime “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners” on Netflix to critical acclaim from the anime community; Studio Trigger’s short ten-episode foray into the streets of Night City has served as a metaphorical adrenaline shot for what many saw as a slowly fading fandom. Without going into spoiler territory, the anime follows the path of David Martinez, a young Night City resident with a particular talent for enduring augmentation at a far higher threshold than most are capable of before being sent on an adventure within the setting.

That setting is perhaps the single most universally agreed upon masterstroke of CD Projekt Red’s 2020 RPG, a strong base that required time to correct that most would not give it. But correct and develop, they did, slowly but surely bringing 2077 up to the standard that lived up to the hype garnered during its fraught development cycle, even if by that point, most players had left the game for greener pastures. However, Edgerunners has changed that, using a combination of Studio Trigger’s expert writing and animation within the established world of 2077 to catch the attention of an audience on Netflix and, after showing them just how rich of a world Night City presents, sets them loose to play the game again.

With the addition of the Edgerunners update (patch 1.6), all augmentations, weapons and playstyles shown off by the characters in the anime can be emulated to perfection in-game, meaning that new and returning players alike can burn the city like their new favourite cyberpunks. And not only is it possible to rule the night as David or Rebecca, but it’s also optimal.

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When you pair that with a deeply emotional and fast-paced show with high-quality acting from the likes of Giancarlo Esposito, it shows the audience what is possible within the setting and game, inspiring a colossal upswing in player count.

As shown in the above image, in August of 2022, the average player count for Cyberpunk 2077 was approximately 10,000 with a peak of 18,700, but with the release of Edgerunners, the average player count has more than doubled with the peak playerbase at a staggering 86,000 on Steam alone (Source: Steam Charts). As the show grows bigger, quickly becoming a classic, the word of mouth of Cyberpunk disseminated amongst well-known gaming personalities, bowling over those like the auteur Hideo Kojima by the show’s quality which bleeds over into the game itself:

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I just watched "Cyberpunk Edgerunners" in one sitting! Awesome! Great! Under the recent domestic anime situation, there was a feeling that famous Japanese studios were consumed by the overseas market, but not this one! This is a miracle of squeezing the trigger to the world! pic.twitter.com/Q2fzRJDAVw

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) September 20, 2022

What does this mean for Cyberpunk 2077 and its future? The playerbase is quickly returning or discovering the world is much better than when they left it and having much more fun with the game than was possible. With more updates like the Edgerunner update on the horizon, there is the incentive and proof that not only is 2077 worth sinking time into and will keep expanding in the coming months and years. It’s safe to say that Cyberpunk Edgerunners is a beacon of showing just how much story and setting content and quality the game can provide, dragging 2077 back from the edge of obscurity and into the neon-drenched light of a cult classic.

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1988’s “AKIRA” is iconic. It’s probably the most Iconic anime film to ever release, save maybe “Ghost in the Shell” or “Spirted away”. The Cyberpunk bosozuku gang film has gone on to inspire numerous works, with no single shot being more Iconic than “the bike slide”

Appearing as part of the films “clown fight sequence”, the original shot sees Protagonist Kaneda bringing his iconic red Motorbike to a stop be skidding into frame parallel to the camera. This show became instantly Iconic and has been referenced numerous times since. However one property which does not have a reference to it is Overwatch.

Its not like overwatch has never referenced anime Either, including other iconic 80s anime, such as Fist of the north star with Mcree, sorry, Cassidy (not gonna get used to that ever), or Echo referencing the aforementioned “ghost in the shell” in one of their sprays.

Ashe Highlight Intro Concept: I think the classic Akira bike slide could be created as a highlight Intro for Ashe (or Cassidy, who steals it in “Reunion”) from Overwatch

However, recently one reddit user, Yeeojj poster a piece of fanart that suggests a highlight intro for Ashe (or Cassidy) that references the bike slide. Ashe has motorbike (although Cassidy did steal it in a short) so its not like its the most out there suggestion.

Is this likely to happen? Probably not. What with development of overwatch 2 being the main project for the overwatch team right now, combined with the Recent microsoft acquisition, I think blizzard have other things on their minds.

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“I know Android 21 has an amazing figure, but can’t you go one whole blog without bringing up kinks”?… Did I write about this purely to make that joke? You bet your sweet A-Double-Dollar-Sign I did!

The Dragon Ball Games Battle Hour event saw a number of announcements among the competitive gaming sections of the internet. The livestream coincided with Bandai Namco’s announcement of pre-orders being available for an Android 21 figurine, the antagonist who debuted in Dragon Ball FighterZ (psst! Which we happen to have).

In addition, S.H Figurearts have also announced an Android 21 figure recently, which will be sold widespread in October. I’m no Figurine Collector Expert Man (though I sincerely wish that was my code name in a Metal Gear Solid game), but hopefully this is good news for those of you who are.

PLOT TWIST ALERT! You thought this would end with related news about the figurine announcement, BUT IT WAS ME, deciding to tack on a mini roast to the rest of this paragraph! Turns out this was a stealth blog roast all along!

What, when, where, why and who am I roasting this fine morning… I won’t name and shame the actual blog author, but let’s just say ‘A Certain Forbes Blog Posted February 21st’! Easier to maintain my brand as a likable plucky underdog speaking strewth to power if I’m not punching down on fellow content writers trying to get by.

Needless to say: I found out about this upcoming Android 21 figure via Forbes article and it claimed the iconic baddie would be coming to FighterZ as a DLC character on February 24th… Now, if this was a video essay, this would be the part where I would break down the door and use clever editing to film a conversation between Myself and Myself Wearing a Fake Mustache and Monocle! Then I’d be like “aha! You haven’t played the game or even done a picosecond of googling because turns out Android 21 always has been a playable character this whole time! Checkmate! Parry this, you filthy casual”!

And that’s that! I found this little period of perceived fact-checking superiority quite the titillating experience while it lasted. Then I went back to my small-time Hashtag Quirky Bloggy Funtimes, Forbes went back to being a substantially more successful business and we all lived happily ever after!

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Who is Hatsune Miku?

Ok, ok. I know like… 99% of people are already somewhat familiar with Miku and vocaloid at this point, even if just in passing, but I am sure there are some boomers individuals who may not understand why this blue haired anime girl is *literally everywhere*.

Hatsune Miku is a pop star from japan. She had recorded over 22,000 original songs by 2010, has toured with lady gaga, was meant to appear at Cochella in 2020 befor covid cancelled the event, her music has been featured in the just dance games, and she has appeared as a spokesperson for multiple advertising campaigns, including an infamous one for domino’s Pizza in japan. She also isn’t real.

Hatsune Miku is really a voice bank for a program (VST, Virtual Studio Technology) called vocaloid, which allows people to insert song lyrics and then have the software synthesis Miku (or a number of other voices) “singing” it. Now, its a lot more complicated than that, but basically yeah, Vocaloid is just a super advanced version of a text-to-speech device. Outside of that, Miku takes the form that we are most familiar with, the Blue-Haired anime girl who ends up in so many Places.

What is Hastune Miku logic Paint S

This game came out a little while ago on the Nintendo Eshop. Developed by Crypton Future media, the developers of the VST, Its basically just a Miku/Vocaloid themed Picross/nonogram game. It has 350 puzzles , and is available on all current Xbox Systems. you can grab it on the Xbox Store for Xbox Series X/S and Xbox One.

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Danganronpa came out all the way back in 2010, on the PSP in japan. Before long the game came mobile, and, as of now, the game has Hit Xbox, with the Anniversary version of the first game (Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc Anniversary Edition) coming to Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S through the game pass.

Danganronpa is a Visual Novel that combines the gameplay style of the Ace Attorney Series with a plot Seemingly ripped out of the SAW films. A group of students are locked in a school-turned-prison, where students are kept under the watchful eye of monokuma- a black and white, seemingly alive teddy bear. There are only 2 ways out: be the last man standing, or commit murder and get away with it. However, each time a murder is commited, a trial is held, and if the person who commited the crime is found guilty, they are Killed. If they are found inoccent, everyone else dies.

Yeah this game is a bit edgy, just a heads up. But we live in the post FNAF world, where Child murder as a topic in games is basically nothing, so whats the harm?

The Game is priced at £13.49 (or free if you have gamepass because, you know, gamepass) and should available very soon.

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PLUS ULTRAAAA! For the less weeb-adjacently inclined, My Hero Academia (or Boku No Hero, on the offhand this makes it’s way to the animemes side of Reddit) is a hit anime based on the manga by Kohei Horikoshi.

Inspired by western superheros and Star Wars (Horikoshi even made official promotional art for The Last Jedi in Japan!), the story follows Izuku Midoriya. He’s a powerless kid in a society where the majority of the population manifests “quirks”, superpowers varying from explosions via flammable sweat to Chef Chocolate’s Sticky Balls!

Bandai Namco recently teased in Weekly Shounen Jump (Jump itself published by Shueisha) that My Hero Academia will be seeing a Battle Royale spin-off game called ‘My Hero Academia: Ultra Rumble’.

My Hero Academia battle royale will be coming to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam. Plans for a closed-Beta test are in the works and currently, rounds will consist of 24-player large matches. I mean, who needs guns when you can casually slap armed thugs in the face just by getting hard!?

This isn’t the first time My Hero Academia’s dipped it’s oddly-shaped pinky toe in the pool of gaming. My Hero Academia One’s Justice was published by Bandai Namco with mixed results, but would go on to get a sequel. And lo and behold, you can get One’s Justice 2 right here at Go2Games, don’t forget to sign up to our email newsletter for discount codes!

My experience with the One’s Justice games are only limited to playing a few half-remembered rounds of the first one with my brother at Cafe Nero’s before the “global panini”, to borrow a phrase from Sarah Z. They’re 3D one-on-one fighting games in a similar vein to the Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm games or Jump Force. Besides the gravity mechanics with fighting on buildings and destructible environments, the gameplay is pretty fun-looking, if a bit simple. Not thrilling, but nice.

As for the anime, I loved the first 4 seasons, but then life happened and due to The Powers That Be (mainly a combination of external life stuff and work), I’m quite behind. Highly recommend it to any superhero fans, what with the Marvel and DC crazes going on, or just anyone into good action in general.

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Hey Sony, how’s that Scrooge McDuckian money pool treating you after all those PS5 sales? Would be a shame if you weren’t able to keep up with the supply-demand ratio… For you at least, for us PS4 owners, this is kind of a win!

On account of PS5 consoles selling out faster than lemon sorbet on a hot summer day, Sony has announced that production of PS4 games will continue, as Sony currently can’t keep up with supply due to component restraints.

This is based on a recent Bloomberg report, which also revealed Sony intended to stop PS4 production last year! Congratulations gamers, sucking at the teet of corporate enterprise actually means the PS4 will stay relevant even longer. I’m not even being sarcastic, when the Wii discontinued it’s WiFi extras, I was mortified! So, glad that seemingly won’t be happening with the PS4 anytime soon.

As PS5 consoles require more advances microchips, PS4 production will be much easier, and we will be seeing around one million new PS4 units launched this year. Bloomberg also notes that this move will likely improve deals with manufacturing partners for Sony, so I guess it’s not a total loss for the multi-BILLION dollar company, everybody wins!

A Sony spokesperson later confirmed the Bloomberg statements of continued PS4 production this year.

PlayStation 4 consoles first released in 2013 and has since sold over 116 million units to date. In contrast, November 2020’s PS5 sales topped 10 million unit sales in a month, faster than PS4 sales in the same time since launch. Despite this, there was a dip in October sales, which lead to Sony’s chief financial officer making the following statement:

“Worldwide, there is a disruption in logistics, and mainly semiconductor device supply being constrained, and this is having a larger impact [than expected], and as you know, the hardware sales in the first quarter were less unit wise and so this is having an impact on us, and likewise for the second quarter […] “But I think that with our efforts and putting in place different measures, the PS platform momentum can be maintained, and especially to the users who are waiting for the PS5, we want to be able to supply as many PS5s as possible to our customers who are waiting – that is our thinking.”  – Hiroki Totoki.

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Bleach!

Bleach is one of the best shonen animes that have paved the way for the anime entertainment industry, for new anime generation such as, my hero academia, demon slayer, Tokyo revengers, Jujutsu Kaisen, One punch, Black Clover, Dr stone, Boruto, and I’m not gonna leave out Naruto, one piece and so on, I’m too lazy to list the other animes. they deserve their props to.

Bleach created by Tite Kubo, Tite illustrated and scripted bleach himself, the story of Bleach is based on a young teen named Ichigo, that is currently an occupant in high school like any other teen, he is blessed with the ability to see the spirits throughout his whole life, this is revealed in chapter 1 of the manga and season 1 in the anime.

His whole life changes when he meets Rukia who is a soul reaper, that he so accidently discovers. While Rukia is searching for a hollow, which is an evil spirit that preys on humans and souls to consume to gain strength.

Rukia is battling a hollow, but she gets wounded by the hollow, Ichigo wants to help Rukia, so Rukia attempts to lend Ichigo some her supernatural abilities, but Ichigo ends up taking all of her supernatural abilities, he defeats the hollow, but because now Ichigo has fully consumed Rukia’s abilities, he is now a full-fledged soul reaper.

With Rukia’s abilities taken she is not able to fulfil her duties as a soul reaper, Ichigo has to take her place and protect the innocent from the hollows.

However, in the end this leads Rukia being in trouble, because as a soul reaper she is breaking the law within the soul society.

I recommend that you watch the anime and read the manga.

Fun fact before I get to the big news, Ichigo’s name in Japanese translates to strawberry, funnily enough in Jujutsu Kaisen the main character, named Yuji Itadori, his hair colour is light pink, because Jujutsu Kaisen is highly inspired by Bleach I think the author Gege Akutami thought it would be cool if in his manga if he could have a character with pink hair that represents Ichigo’s name.

the author of Jujutsu Kaisen is highly inspired by the Bleach series, Gege Akutami the author of Jujutsu Kaisen even revealed this in an interview with the author of the Bleach series Tite Kubo, you can tell just that because Jujutsu Kaisen has similarities, while also being unique and authentic.

So anyway, enough of me yapping!

Heres the big news I wanted to share if you are a fan of Bleach or soon to be a fan of Bleach.

It is Bleach’s 20^th anniversary, and as a result there is huge news coming, it has been announced that Bleach has been confirmed to have a 17^th season of the anime, yes that’s right we are getting a new season of the anime that we have so desperately have been waiting for.

Bleach’s 17^th season has been titled.

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War series. And better yet we have been blessed with an official release date.

It has been confirmed that Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War series will officially be with us in October 2022, but where not the only ones that is excited for this, even manga authors have drawn fan art of bleach in their own manga style, because it’s basically a treasure.

Here is Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War series official trailer.

https://youtu.be/iutQJzAXiWo

Here is a video clip of the official art.

https://youtu.be/4hFF9k02bxc

So, what do you think? Are you excited? For those of you that have never watched Bleach before, are you gonna give your time to watch it? Let me know what you think.

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Tokyo revengers.

Tokyo revengers is one of the best anime series that I have watched in 2021 so far, along with a few other anime series.

Heres a short brief about Tokyo revengers, the story is based on Takemichi, a 26 year old young man that is currently living an unhappy life, with a low paying job, as he continues to live his life, he hears of the tragic news of his ex-girlfriend, Hinata, that has died of a gruesome death, Hinata’s death is orchestrated by the hands of the Tokyo Manji gang.

On the same day after hearing the tragic news, Takemichi gets pushed onto the train tracks, with the train nearly about to take his life.

Takemichi ends up time traveling 12 years back into the past, just watch the anime is all I’m gonna say! It’s amazing.

I’m going to be completely honest, I was kind of scared to watch Tokyo revengers after watching episode one, I feel like the anime has a kind of an eerie vibe to it and some of the content in Tokyo revengers is very mature, but at the same time its mild.

Maybe it’s because the author Ken Wakui was an ex-gang member of a biker gang in Japan, so I’m just wondering if he’s basing the characters, of the Tokyo revengers series from his experiences and memories of his past in the manga series (anime) and wishing he could’ve saved the people that were close to him, and also wishing to change the past, I do question if some of the characters are based on his friendships from his ex-biker gang days?

After a week of pep talking myself to watch Tokyo revengers, I watched it and it had me at WOW and also in tears.

Tokyo revengers as a series is not the typical anime / manga series with the main character receiving supernatural abilities, and has to save the world and become a hero to everyone and whatnot, Tokyo revengers is different.

Instead, this anime has a twist and it’s something that is more relatable to us as an audience, because Tokyo revengers has a huge pinch of our reality involved in it, and this singular character Takemichi, that doesn’t have any super powers, and isn’t strong physically, is doing everything he can to save everyone in the past, so that the future may change.

Tokyo revengers is more popular than Jujitsu Kaisen and attack on titan!

Wow I know right! Tokyo revengers first kicked off in April 2021 and it has already surpassed JJK (Jujitsu Kaisen) as the best anime of the year, and JJK came out in October 3^rd, 2020.

Data research shows that google trends, Tokyo revengers has gained a massive jump from the last two months, with popularity levels of beating JJK in terms of popularity worldwide.

Tokyo revengers has already succeeded to out shine everyone in the anime entertainment industry.

Not only the Tokyo revengers anime season 1 is popular right now, but also the Manga series of Tokyo revengers is amazing, there’s a lot of spoilers because season one has finished, and season 2 hasn’t been animated yet, don’t worry I’m not going to do any spoilers! Wink, wink.

But I am going to say is that if you do read the manga series, you might cry, because I did, let’s say that life took a YEET!

my reaction after reading chapter 223 and 244 of the manga: “that did not just happen!”

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Ken Wakui YEETING us manga readers.

In a new unpredictable direction, which will make you wonder where is the manga series heading, and what future beholds the characters that we get attached to, and also the storyline and plot are heading in a direction that we as manga readers might not like, because the damage has been done, but can it be fixed is the question.

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You’ll be amazed at the talent behind this new Netflix anime movie

Netflix released a trailer for an original anime movie that is expected to release in Spring 2022 and I honestly could not be more excited.

Bubble is expected to release on April 28, 2022, and has all the makings of an open-world platforming game set in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo where, you’ve guessed it, has gravity-defying bubbles…?

Bubble

Bubble is actually a retelling of a classic Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale, The Little Mermaid, where instead of a mermaid falling in love, transforms into a human, has her heartbroken, and turns into bubbles, it’s actually a bubble that transforms into a girl.

Just normal anime plotlines.

Yet it is also set in a post-apocalyptic Tokyo that has been overtaken by nature and cut off from the rest of the world after abnormal bubbles rained down everywhere and allowed people to defy the laws of gravity. Now, Tokyo has become a playground for young adults that have lost their families for their parkour team battles as they leap from building to building. The movie will follow the protagonist Hibiki a young man who is known for his dangerous parkour style, after he makes a reckless move one day and plummets into the gravity-bending sea, and is then saved by a girl, Uta.  Their encounter leads to a revelation that will change the world.

Post-apocalyptic Tokyo where nature overruns the city certainly isn’t a new concept. Makoto Shinkai’s most recent feature, Weathering With You, also plays with the concept of world-alternating rainfall, and the Netflix series Japan Sinks: 2020 is an adaptation of a novel that puts an ordinary family to the test as a series of massive earthquakes throw Japan into total mayhem. Yet the beautiful animation shown in the trailer for Bubble could easily be the opening sequel for a Japanese open-world platforming game.

The crew behind Bubble are also extraordinary and out-of-this-world talent. Gen Urobuchi, best known for scripting series such as Psycho-Pass, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and Fate/Zero is the screenwriter while Tetsurô Araki, best known for directing Death Note and Attack on Titan is taking on the reins as the director. Character designs have been provided by Death Note’s own, Takeshi Obata, and music will be composed by Hiroyuki Sawano, who is behind the soundtracks for Attack on Titan and my personal favourite, Promare. 

Since it is a Netflix original, it would be the perfect opportunity to create a tie-in game for Netlfix’s newest venture and allow viewers to parkour their way through Tokyo. We can only hope.

Bubble is out on Netflix on April 28, 2022.

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