When Rania calls him out, he claims that people are happier believing that it is a new species of animal, and not one that no longer exists. Extinct in the Future: You can come across a man with a falcon perched on his shoulder who offers you to take a picture with it, and calls it a chimera.Evil Debt Collector: Rania was driven out of her old home by "debt corps.".Eco-Terrorist: The street gang Block-FourOh is this, as they plant trees and gardens in CorpSec territory and receive a bad reputation because of it.But imagine you'd seen the sky just once. You lived outside Nivalis, right? So you have memories of the sky. When Rania asks why people would ever go on it, Control replies: Driven to Suicide: The Ascension is a giant escalator.Disproportionate Retribution: While driving, you may occasionally hear announcements that listening to unlicensed jazz is punishable by death.This is due to Cora slowly coming into her full power. It starts bad at the start of the night with increasing accidents and even a whole neighborhood falling into the ocean. The city's infrastructure is falling apart and begins to accelerate in its total collapse throughout the evening. Disaster Dominoes: Essentially, the plot of the game. Deadpan Snarker: Rania is one of the most biting wits in the entire game, probably because it's the only thing keeping her sane.Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: There are only a few times during the night when it isn't raining, and the rest of the time Rania is walking or driving amidst a steady downpour.Cyberpunk Is Techno: Cloudpunk's soundtrack complements the technological expansiveness of Nivalis.The city's infrastructure is crumbling into the sea, hyper-gentrification is commonplace, and android discrimination is rampant, among many other major social issues. Crapsack World: As time passes, it soon becomes apparent that Nivalis, and the greater game world is this.The Comically Serious: Rania behaves like this when she converses with the wackier, quirkier inhabitants of Nivalis.City of Adventure: Nivalis is full of eccentric characters, dangerous people, and packages that may or may not explode.Though, as City of Ghosts reveals, they are not opposed to shanking corpos who wander onto their territory. Naturally, in a hyper-capitalistic Nivalis this makes them one of the most dangerous criminals around. Instead of throwing bombs, they do urban renewal, installing parks, growing trees and making playgrounds for children out of empty and disused corporate property. Bomb-Throwing Anarchists: Averted by BlockFourOh, an anarchist android street gang.In the meantime, Ion Lands have discounted the main game by 40% until April 7th. Studio head Marko Dieckmann says "It’s a darker, tenser, more complex story, and we can’t wait for people to experience it."Ĭity Of Ghosts doesn't have a release date yet, but you can find it over on Steam when it does land. Ion Lands say that the City Of Ghosts DLC is a new fully-voiced story with its own multiple endings depending on your choices. It's an absolutely marvellous place, and a joy to wander around even if there aren't all that many ways to interact with it." When you're walking, the trains shunt by, the advertising blimps drift along, and occasionally police hovercars will rush overhead. "When you're driving above it the foot traffic goes on. "Nivalis is constantly moving," she says. While she says the story is interesting enough without being outstanding, the city itself is the real star. I never did wind up taking this one for a spin myself, but Sin had plenty of good to say in her Cloudpunk review. Are they still called street races in the sky? Hayse introduces himself down here in the DLC trailer where you can also spot some car chase action that might be those street races Ion Lands mentioned. Meanwhile, deadbeat gambler Hayse has been set an impossible task: to clear all his debts by the end of the night." "With debt collectors, homicidal cyborgs and at least one death cult on her trail, Rania might not have a single friend left in the city of Nivalis. "After surviving the events of the original Cloudpunk, she’s drawn the ire of monolithic courier corporation Curzona," Ion Lands say in their announcement. Leading courier Rania is in trouble once again when City Of Ghosts begins. There's no expected delivery date just yet, but Ion Lands say it'll be avaialable on PC "soon". In addition to continuing Cloudpunk's story with Rania the driver, the City Of Ghosts DLC also adds new areas, vehicle customisation, and street races. Futuristic delivery driver adventure Cloudpunk is dropping off what it calls a "sequel-sized DLC" that's apparently longer than the original game.
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