Super Mario Sunshine
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"The year is 2010. Civilization has progressed little in the last 20 years" - The meme gets updated every year, apparently.1. I think the developers overestimated the advance of civilization...
That's the weapon you're equipped with: a hose connected to a sort of magic backpack that provides infinite water.2. ...f.ex. with the single-person portable infinite capacity water tank
Enemies are mainly just flames (with the exception of the haywire robots mentioned below), that you have to put out. The effort put into their variety and the believability of their "behaviour", being non-intelligent entities that still somehow attack you, is commendable. The bosses that actively go after you are a bit too much though.3. As far as I've seen (have never actually completed the game) "enemy" "behaviors" are pretty cleverly implemented, given the limited nature... although some definitely stretch suspension of disbelief, mainly the bosses.
You can find & rescue people trapped in the building and it's in your best interest to do so, since it's the only way to get healed within a level. To find them you get a "vitality sensor" of sorts that pings faster as you get closer.4. ...another overestimated advance: live humans proximity detector.
This burning office building is full of robots! They're all on fire and going wild. They mainly look like roombas but taller, although there are some mechanical arms as well. They do look pretty realistic and contemporary, not a multi-purpose humanoid one to be seen (at least as far as I remember, I played most of the game, but it's been a while).5. Another one: ubiquitous robots! Although the robots themselves seem to be at a believable contemporary tech level (again, as far as I've seen).
6... hard to tell their function or level of intelligence, though, when they're all on fire & going haywire, just moving around at random.
You can break windows with your pressured water beam, and it's very pleasant and OCD triggering. Gotta smash them all.7. It's a case of emergency, I'm allowed to break the glass!
It was sth I noticed immediately when trying the game for the 1st time.8. A subjective one, but some aesthetic elements remind me of Resident Evil, mainly the map. This game came out a few years earlier, though.
See clue 1.9. Elaborating a bit more on the 1st clue: The game is set in the future year of 2010. We're told so in the intro, and that civilization hasn't advanced much (& yet, see previous clues). A screenshot of that text has become somewhat of a meme I've seen around.
's what it is10. Free range top down on foot action shooter! But instead of bullets you shoot water, from the aforementioned infinite tank/replicator/whatever it is.
Ding dingQuest for Glory III?