Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Name 73 by Cynon

The story begins in the far future: the capital of the world is Neo London, and the population is forced to live inside underground cities that keeps them safe from the wild contaminated desert. One of these inhabitants is Erin Marchesi, a labourer in Gravis City, where she works in a factory of the Haas Corporation that refines a prized material called Kletium and makes ammunitions. One day Vadriel, the bodyguard of Mr. Haas, calls her to perform a special mission to evaluate her skills. This has probably something to do with the fact that Erin in the past fell into the Kletium and survived. But what are their motives?
 

Name 73 is a RPG Maker 2003 game created by Cynon. It is one of the few RPG Maker games that takes human racism and real-world religion and makes them both topics. According to the developer, he was sick and tired of hearing anti-religious and anti-racism messages being sent in commercial RPGs that hid behind fantasy names. 
The game for the futuristic dystopian setting and some similar locations reminded to me of A Blurred Line, but it's different even if it belongs to the rpg category: expect battles, exploration, fetch quests and other classic activities.
 

Random Fact: the game folder contains also a .txt file with some notes: these include the text from the intro sequence, the bios of the playable cast, the details about the other important characters of the game, and the developer's notes.
 

Final Verdict: a dark futuristic game that reminds to me of A Blurred Line for the setting and the protagonist being a normal worker. It's a nice stylish game, only issue I had was the lot of walking around you have to do, with a character that has a mediocre speed and the lack of an in-game map. For the rest it was good, pity it includes only the first four chapters of the story.

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