Punishing: Gray Raven
General Gameplay
Punishing: Gray Raven is a mobile action role-playing game developed and published by Kuro Games. It was first released in China on December 5, 2019 and a year later on December 4, 2020 in Japan. The game was released globally on July 16, 2021.
The game has players control a squad of up to three characters, known as "Constructs", against various enemies. Storytelling is presented in a visual novel format and combat is hack and slash action-based. During combat, different colored "Pings" can fire off different skills. Chaining 3 Pings with the same color will execute a powerful version of that skill. Evading enemy attacks triggers a bullet time effect called Matrix upon successful evasion, slowing down all enemies so that the player can better arrange the attack moves. Evading consumes stamina, which prevents players from freely dodging all the time.
In-Game Powers
Babylonia
The Foresaken
Arctic Route Union
Akdilek Commercial Alliance
Kowloong Chamber of Commerce
Ascendants
Church of Machina
A gigantic space station, stronghold of the World Government. This is where the scientific research about mechanoids takes place and where qualified human soldiers are transformed to mechanoids to fight against the punishing virus. It is the safest refuge since punishing cannot reach the space yet.
Terrestrial wanderers consisted of veterans and refugees, most of whom are against Babylonia because they think it forsook them to the deadly punishing virus.
Organization formed by trade ports around the Arctic, controls northern Russia and Alaska. Its mechanoids are mostly centaur shaped.
This organizaiton originates from the Middle East and is much like the movie Snowpiercer except that PGR does not have a frozen world. It is an empire on a train with very strict hierarchy.
Kowloong mostly controls East Asia. Its leader Qu is currently developing a super AI that stores everyone's memories so that the Kowloong people can live on in the digital world even if the entire world is destroyed by punishing.
Ascendants are mostly mechanoids who were maltreated by humans. Somehow they are immune to punishing and can use it to reinforce their bodies. They aim to create a world without humans.
Church of Machina consists of mechanoids who are mostly friendly to humans. They aim to create a world where humans and mechanoids are equal. Each of its leaders has a distinct Tarot code name.