{"id":7032,"date":"2022-09-17T14:25:20","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T14:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/17\/review-jack-move-a-short-sharp-and-utterly-gripping-cyberpunk-rpg\/"},"modified":"2022-09-17T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T14:25:20","slug":"review-jack-move-a-short-sharp-and-utterly-gripping-cyberpunk-rpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/17\/review-jack-move-a-short-sharp-and-utterly-gripping-cyberpunk-rpg\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Jack Move &#8211; A Short, Sharp, And Utterly Gripping Cyberpunk RPG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In bird culture, this is considered a Jack Move.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It feels like most JRPGs these days don\u2019t really tread much into hard science fiction. Sure, big franchises like <strong>Final Fantasy<\/strong> or <strong>Xenoblade<\/strong> aren\u2019t afraid to mix in some tech alongside their magic, but it\u2019s rare that you\u2019ll see developers fully commit to a world that\u2019s all robots and computers. In this regard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/jack_move\">Jack Move<\/a> is a breath of fresh air. What we have here is a brief, well-paced, and thoroughly traditional JRPG set in a cyberpunk universe. It&#8217;s surprisingly innovative and a delight to play through.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Move takes place in a near-future, cyberpunk society where governments are effectively impotent and enormous conglomerates reign supreme. You take on the role of Noa, a chipper hacker who routinely participates in attacks on corporations and sells sensitive information on the black market. Noa and her partner-in-crime, Ryder, are simply carrying on with business as usual when she receives a message from her estranged father, who warns her that a corporation called Monomind may be after her because of something he\u2019s been working on. Shortly after this, Monomind kidnaps her dad, starting Noa and Ryder on a quest to free him and get to the bottom of his latest research project.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/jack-move\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Review: Jack Move &#8211; A Short, Sharp, And Utterly Gripping Cyberpunk RPG<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>In bird culture, this is considered a Jack Move.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It feels like most JRPGs these days don\u2019t really tread much into hard science fiction. Sure, big franchises like <strong>Final Fantasy<\/strong> or <strong>Xenoblade<\/strong> aren\u2019t afraid to mix in some tech alongside their magic, but it\u2019s rare that you\u2019ll see developers fully commit to a world that\u2019s all robots and computers. In this regard, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/jack_move\">Jack Move<\/a> is a breath of fresh air. What we have here is a brief, well-paced, and thoroughly traditional JRPG set in a cyberpunk universe. It&#8217;s surprisingly innovative and a delight to play through.<\/p>\n<p>Jack Move takes place in a near-future, cyberpunk society where governments are effectively impotent and enormous conglomerates reign supreme. You take on the role of Noa, a chipper hacker who routinely participates in attacks on corporations and sells sensitive information on the black market. Noa and her partner-in-crime, Ryder, are simply carrying on with business as usual when she receives a message from her estranged father, who warns her that a corporation called Monomind may be after her because of something he\u2019s been working on. Shortly after this, Monomind kidnaps her dad, starting Noa and Ryder on a quest to free him and get to the bottom of his latest research project.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/jack-move\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}