Netease’s free-to-play open-world gacha RPG Project Mugen now has a real name: Ananta. As Edwin points out in The Maw, it’s very much like Spider-Man meets Zenless Zone Zero, with its mix of city thugs and unabashed anime teenagers with long, flowing hair and a penchant for metal accessories.

Project Mugen debuted in August 2023, when developers Naked Rain released a slick trailer that showed its anime cast (technically not) whirling through an elaborately presented city, driving cars and cyberbikes through the neon-colored streets. It attracted a lot of attention. IGN has an interview from later this year that talks about combat and microtransactions. Then there is a little silence.

Naked Rain showed up in February 2024 with a bit of Chinese New Year art. In August, they held a recruiting event in Shanghai where fans could talk to the developers and potentially join the team (here’s a link to a Reddit post that sums it all up). nice). Now they’ve released a trailer announcing the game’s name change, as well as an overview with excerpts from the gameplay footage.

So is it looking good? Well, the world is pleasing to the eye and fun to traverse. I like the way you can enter stores without loading screens, and the combat glimpses look neat. It’s too early to tell how it all comes together, especially when it’s a gacha game that undoubtedly involves a bazillion currencies and makes players open their wallets to get them To secure bunny girls with the highest stats.

Another trailer will be released on December 4th, hopefully revealing a little more about what to expect Strictly speaking stand up. You can pre-register on Ananta’s website, but there’s no release date yet.