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Cue the Doom/Wolfenstein guy big grin right here, for Mr. Armitage is now the proud owner of the Enfield AS-7 Assault Cannon. The finest weapon in the game, which causes numbers in the teens (even up into the low 20s, I believe) to roll off of enemies' heads.
In the words of Nancy Thompson... "Screw your pass."
It's nice that these guys drop 100+ nuyen a piece, but we've got so much money right now it is not even funny. In fact, if I wasn't so OCD, I probably would have just left the money behind.
Nice lobby, Aneki... Are those all futuristic gumball machines lining the walls?
Time to enter into the most tedious computer systems in the entire game, where one screw up of running combat.exe can cost you in the area of 40 health.
Protip: Don't download any programs onto your own computer labeled combat.exe, either. Especially if they are in the area of 47KB, because it's a trap.
Two things have always bothered me about the Aneki lobby. The first, is that you cannot get down to the basement (pay close attention to the lights at the top of the elevator doors). The second, is that there is a computer up here past the back wall. It is probably a ruse like the island in the Dam level of Goldeneye 64 or the Library Staircase in Maniac Mansion... But that doesn't mean it won't drive us crazy!
Invisibility + Assault Cannon = UNSTOPPABLE
Yes, the computer systems in the Aneki building are quite complicated. In fact, some of them you will have to enter at least twice to get all of the datastores, due to the limited amount of data that you can retrieve before you must jack out.
Holy crap, 10 million nuyen to Drake for "security" purposes? I guess Drake was trying to maximize his profits by hiring incompetent thugs like Spatter and the Rust Stilletos gang. What a ponce; totally not worth the price.
Thanks to unlocking even more giant stores of money, we now have the best weapons in the game. The AS-7 A. Cannon, coupled with the Full Body Suit (funny how they spell it FULL BODY SUIT when you want to buy it, but it says FULL BODYSUIT on your inventory screen; but I guess consistency is overrated, anyway). Jake is pretty much a one man killing machine at this point, so bringing other runners along is just for kicks, as they're pretty much nothing more than heal bitches or meat shields.
"KILLING SPREE!" </Counter Strike Voice Guy>
Honestly, Jake is dispensing the ultimate in vigilante justice, for which the likes of Paul Kersey or Frank Castle would be proud. But these bad guys just seem to have a Death Wish and a need to be Punished.
Not exactly sure why the Drake accounts are in Aneki computers, but what the hey. Free money is free money.
Though if Aneki was stealing money from Drake so that they could pay him 10 million of his own dough? Now THAT would be hilarious. And considering how incompetent Drake seemed, it would also be absolutely believable.
I don't like the sound of this... I better call the Ghostbusters.
Just for fun, since we have nuyen to burn, I figured I'd call up Akimi for a good time. She totally isn't worth the 10,000 nuyen, but we'll fork it over anyway.
Also, it should be noted that Akimi has the character worst sprite ever (though her facial avatar is at least decent).
I'm amazed. Jetboy, the terrible shadowrunner, but apparent matrix systems trivia quizmaster. I can't believe he actually knew something useful.
Just imagine if this fleshbag was the matrix systems courier instead of our Mr. Jake Armitage. The world would have been absolutely doomed.
At this point, the game pretty much throws money at you, even though odds are you don't need it. They give you enough to buy the best equipment and a full team of runners with complete ease.
Also, the Aneki HQ is infinitely less awesome than the Drake Volcano. Drake may have been a complete tool, but at least he had good taste in his evil villain lairs (in a Dr. Evil sort of incompetent way).
Beware angry troll deckers stepping off of elevators. They're big and unexpected. Though check out that 20 damage that just rolled off his head. The only thing better is that Powerball at Level 6 will sometimes hit for up to 36 damage, and it happened a few times when I casted it on ghouls while karma gaining.
Scumbag game, why you no give me this money earlier!? Now I'm at a point where the money is useless, since I'm 5 minutes from the end of the game, and I own absolutely everything of worth. They could've at least put in another piece or two of horribly expensive cyberware to purchase or maybe a cyberdeck upgrade or something. Or maybe even a way to turn nuyen into karma.
So much nuyen. I could not work for another year. And enough karma to make any in-universe character weep. Jake is like a full blown Argent or Kid Stealth level badass right now.
Remember when I said that Akimi has the worst sprite ever? Well, I wasn't joking. But Steelflight's is also pretty bad, as you can see (a terrible heavy dude ripoff). When you hire her over the phone, you pay her and pick her up at the train station.
Though, for the curious, this leads to a situation where you can hire her, then before you pick her up go out and hire your team full of three other runners. When you get to the train station, she will come out, and the game cannot handle you having four runners. So they usually all turn hostile and start shooting and slinging spells at each other (and you as well, I believe)... And then the game has a tendency to crash around that time, as well. So, unless you don't value your game saves, I don't advise you try this one out.
For 10,000 nuyen, I enjoy that she has more Body and Magic than Kitsune... But am not impressed by how not-maxed out her spells are. Seriously, what the hell?
Ah, so Steelflight already has the Bulletproof Vest that is in a case but never becomes in stock for you to buy it. Nice.
Also, the Fuchi Cyber-6 is a nice reference to the Fuchi corporation in the Shadowrun P&P universe. It is nice that they hid little easter egg tidbits like this in the game. It almost makes me want to hire Hamfist and Jetboy just to see what cyberdecks they use...
[Editor's Note: It looks like the three cyberdecks listed in the game are the PCD-100, the Fuchi Cyber-6, and the Allegiance Alpha. The Genesis version definitely has a leg up on the SNES version with the ability to buy new decks and upgrade its stats and programs.]
Uh-oh, they brought Otto the Troll Decker. And he's angry, strong, and carries bigger dakka than the rest of them.
Well, here it is... The AI Computer. I'd say it is time to get this party started.
Though, I would like to point out, the fact that every dead body looks the exact same annoys me to no end.
Well, I highly enjoy the symmetrical IC deployment they used here (though it would've been a nice touch if it spelled out something like "JAKE", just for kicks).
At any rate, our special program has been uploaded and modified in both nodes. Time to jack out...
AI: "... We get signal... Main screen turn on... Armitage... You have no chance to survive make your time..."
Looks like somebody set up us the bomb. Time to get the hell out of here.
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