Edgerunners’ Star Lucy This Month

Followers of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime have been trying ahead to seeing Lucy reduce it up in Responsible Gear Attempt as a DLC character for some time now. Throughout this weekend’s EVO event, Arc System Works lastly pulled again the curtain on how everybody’s favourite dwelling Edgerunner suits into its combating recreation.

Lucy’s look right here appears to be like to be justified by way of her thoughts being hacked and transferred to the Responsible Gear universe. Nonetheless coping with the occasions of Edgerunners that left her outdated crew useless, she’s decided to determine why she’s right here and find out how to get again residence. Till she finds these solutions, she’s received some tips to carry her personal in opposition to Sol Badguy and the remainder of the Attempt roster. Gameplay-wise, her she’s received her wrist whips, and her hacking prowess lets her disable her enemy’s powers whereas boosting her personal, which is a neat solution to adapt her fashion for combating recreation functions.

For the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners followers, taking part in as Lucy in aggressive or the story mode appears to be like to function some callbacks to the present. She’s the primary visitor character to grace Responsible Gear Attempt (and the collection total, appears to be like like) and funnily sufficient, its second consecutive anime addition. Earlier than her, Arc System Works added Unika from the sport’s anime collection Dual Riders to the roster this previous Might.

Lucy enters Responsible Gear Attempt on August 21, and we’ll wait to see if she graces Cyberpunk: Edgerunners II together with her presence when that collection hits Netflix within the close to future.

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