Review Encodya - Just a girl and robot

Set Up Enjoyment GmbH, based in Wiesbaden, is a German supplier as well as publisher of video game and also coordinator of the meeting GermanDevdays (GDD).

There is a large selection of adventures point-click with fantastic stories on the market, and now, Encoded de ChaosMonger Studio is aimed at a wider audience with its console exit. Originally released in January 2021 on PC, players will be carried away in a trip to the theme of the cyberpunk on PS4 / PS5, Xbox One / Series X as well as on Nintendo Switch.

In 2062, Tina, nine years, and his guardian robot for life, Sam-53, live in the futuristic Neo-Berlin. Since their makeshift tent, Tina and Sam are engaged in a simple trip to get provisions. When Tina accidentally falls on a secret code of his father, hidden in Sam, who was to be revealed to him on the day of his 10th birthday, both embarked on a trip to discover his true goal and the secret behind Neo-Berlin.

Encoded is a point-click title located in a beautiful 2.5D world. The orders are simple when you browse a small card, while clicking on and by studying objects, learning to know the inhabitants, while browsing different areas of Neo-Berlin. Getting forward the story is simple and is talking about many interesting people and robots in the city, as well as by finding key elements that match or correlate with each other. From the information you have collected, you will go to the next place to find and collect more indices and information. In terms of gameplay, Encoded does nothing unique for the genre, but the story, art and design of the characters as well as the characters and dialogs cleverly written are certainly what distinguishes this title.

The unique animated world of Neo-Berlin is absolutely beautiful. The people and robots with whom you interact, as well as the places themselves, have an eccentric charisma. Everything gives the impression that everything goes together, and to give even more life to the city, the musical partition and the background music really add to the atmosphere of this world cyberpunk wet. Not to mention the fact that the game is fully lined, which adds extra vivacity to the game.

However, even with this simple title point-click, I have encountered some problems. For a game that is not very intense graphically, I suffered a little too much lag and lost pictures. I play on the PS4, so its certainly an older hardware, but if I can play tile-to-recent titles with occasional falls when the battles become intense, I certainly expect to Be able to play a game like encoded almost without fault. The riddles start quite easily, but I feel that the difficulty rises from nowhere. I will admit that I had to turn to the internet to find some answers, because some were simply out of my reach to solve. Earlier, I mentioned that the world and all that it contains work perfectly together and everything seems to belong, well, it is both a good thing and a little embarrassing. When searching for items, they can be difficult to find because everything mixes and key items do not really stand out. For this reason, this can make the search for little things a little embarrassing. The last problem, not so important, is the card system. When you select the area where you want to access, the cursor does not appear or put a little time to appear or move, so that the selection is not as responsive as it could be. All this apart, the only real problem is the decline of the frame rate, but all the rest was a slight disadvantage.

Its interesting to see how Encoded started as a short film entitled Robot Will Protect You before becoming a game and a story. It is a wonderful adventure and honestly, the relationship of Tina and Sam was only comforting. For fans of the genre point-click or a good story on the theme of the Cyberpunk, you should definitely take a look at it because it is definitely worth trying. I hope that the image frequency problem is due to the age of my machine and not to a possible poor optimization of generations of previous consoles, or to the publication of a hotfix to solve the problem.