There’s the saying, “good artists copy, great ones steal.” After which there’s whatever Ananta is doing. The upcoming open-world RPG from NetEase developer Bare Rain goes viral once more because of new footage from Tokyo Recreation Present 2025. Whereas it would appear to be the newest spherical of Genshin Impression-inspired mobile anime slop, the developer has confirmed it received’t be counting on exploitative playing mechanics to earn its maintain. It’ll, nevertheless, be ripping off Spider-Man in each means it could possibly.
First, let’s begin with the brand new trailer. Launched earlier this week, it exhibits seven minutes of gameplay depicting all of the methods you’ll be able to discover, struggle, and hand around in Ananta’s city playground, and within the course of it virtually finally ends up serving as a greatest-hits spotlight reel of all of the previous video games the upcoming cell launch is clearly pulling from, together with not simply Grand Theft Auto and Spider-Man but in addition Watch Canine, Sifu, and extra. There’s fluid martial arts brawls and smartphone hacking video games. And naturally, there’s the web-slinging folks have been gawking at for the reason that sport was first introduced.
It seems neat, and it’s spectacular it is a sport designed for cell gadgets and never high-end consoles. Bare Rain is promising multi-level exploration from the ground-level streets to metropolis rooftops, in addition to interiors you’ll be able to discover at totally different elevations. There are autos you may get in and drive, weapons you’ll be able to decide up off the bottom, from weapons to golf golf equipment, and NPCs who will supposedly react to no matter chaos you’re inflicting whereas out exploring. “Every choice ripples through the life of the city,” the builders write. We’ll see.
For some gamers, it is a win-win-win. Steal one sport mechanic and also you’re a thief. However take a bunch from all totally different video games, pour them right into a blender, see what comes out, and also you could be a genius, or at the very least somebody with the potential to make NetEase some huge cash. For others, nevertheless, Ananta is a bit too “shameless” relating to ripping off the competitors. It’s not simply which you can web-swing round city like Spider-Man, it’s which you can additionally use Venom-like powers to smash unhealthy guys with assaults that look straight out of Spider-Man 2. A few of its chase scenes, in the meantime, appear lifted proper out of an Uncharted sport.
This Ananta sport has no disgrace 😅#Uncharted4 #NaughtyDog pic.twitter.com/ly53Bi6Ebi
— King J 🤴🏿 (@JMaine518) September 25, 2025
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2: The Anime… I imply, ANANTA seems completely unimaginable! It genuinely seems like Marvel’s Spider-Man, GTA, Watch Canine, and Sleeping Canine all rolled into one fashionable open world bundle! Will certainly be holding my eyes on this sport sooner or later! 👀🎮 pic.twitter.com/lEVNgvnDcP
— Evan Filarca (@EvanFilarca) September 23, 2025
Oh no, the Ps supported Chinese language sport has taken the entire finest components of each sport of the final 15 years and put it multi function free to play sport!
I for one am outraged.
— Chríss (@Chriss_m) September 25, 2025
Whether or not all of this may in the end make for a superb sport stays to be seen. Ananta may very well be a breakout free-to-play hit that makes folks rethink what sure style mashups are able to, or it might simply be a tricked-out automobile with no fuel within the tank. One different large factor going for it’s that, in contrast to loads of video games on this area, Ananta received’t be hawking pay-to-win character loot bins with a purpose to earn a living. Bare Rain confirmed to Famitsu (by way of Automaton) that moderately than these sorts of gacha mechanics, the sport’s monetization will as a substitute depend on cosmetics and different customizable options starting from outfits and vehicles to the participant’s home.
It’s not the one post-Genshin Impression cell RPG to be shifting away from gacha mechanics. The makers of Duet Evening Abyss, which arrives on cell subsequent month, introduced they too would be ditching the hero loot field grind and eliminating star rankings for gear to restrict pay-to-win mechanics. It’s additionally taking out stamina limits, one other in style means of nickel-and-diming gamers on cell. “In the last test,” DecaBear says, “[testers] said our gameplay—which is built around fast-paced grinding—kept getting blocked by stamina limits,” producer DecaBear stated. “And that felt pretty bad.”
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