Sukeban Games are returning to the cyberpunk world of bartending visible novel RPG doodad VA-11 HALL-A [god, please call it Valhalla -common sense ed.] with a sequel named N1RV ANN-A [oh for… I’ve had enough -former ed.] due in 2020. We’ll play a brand new bartender behind a brand new bar in a brand new metropolis, listening to new folks’s woes whereas mixing them drinks that can absolutely will convey solely consolation and no additional woes in any respect nuh uh. Meet a few of the weirdos we’ll be serving within the announcement trailer under.
N1RV ANN-A (as soon as once more, the title of the bar) will go down in Saint Alicia, the place bartender Sam appears to have loads of woes of her personal between an eight-year-old son and a yakuza boyfriend. But it’s our job to talk with boozehounds and barflies, attending to know them and mixing them drinks by means of a wee minigame. I did like when the primary game had drinkers reply in a different way to totally different drinks, generally shaping their moods and tales, and naturally that returns within the sequel.
After a 12 months sober, I’m so indignant at candy cocktails – and their mocktail counterparts folks counsel I drink as a substitute of scrumptious whisky. It’s 11pm and I’m off my tits on sugar when you’re nearly to dig into a brand new strata of woes and oh god how dare you, piña colada. How dare you.
“I like the idea of Valhalla and some presentation gripes aside, I like its execution,” Sin Vega mentioned in our VA-11 HALL-A review in 2016. “It’s no great revelation but a pleasant surprise, and being a mundane bystander going about their day instead of the plot-critical centre of the universe is an under-explored concept. Valhalla made an even smarter decision to pick a setting that most would fill with combat, megalomaniacs, and the usual Heroic Journey guff, and instead populate it with interesting people and that thing we do best but talk about least: alcohol. I mean, friendship.”
Nirvanna is due out by way of Steam a while in 2020. For now, see its website for extra. Ysbyrd Games are publishing this one too, and it’ll be on Switch and PlayStation four as nicely.
Disclosure: Cassandra Khaw, who used to fill our Bargain Bucket column, has labored for Ysbyrd Games however I truthfully don’t even know if she nonetheless does.
