NTE Ver.1.4 Opens Pukaland Amusement Park With First-Person Rides
The update pushes NTE's open-world movement into spaces amusement parks normally keep closed, turning rides and back-lot areas into playable ground rather than scenery.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
NTE: Neverness to Everness added the island-wide amusement park Pukaland in Ver.1.4. The grounds hold mini-games including the dart game Lucky HIT, can-toppling Puka-chan Tower, whack-a-mole Mischievous Kids Assemble, shooting gallery Plushie Operation, and the hedge maze Flower Maze. Rides include the coffee cup attraction Octo Cup and the free-fall-like Sugar Waltz, many playable in first-person view.
Pukaland is built as a full park rather than a single attraction. Benches and trash cans sit between the flashy buildings, and visitors range from school trip students to a man insisting he is an assassin. Mini-games line the paths: Lucky HIT, Puka-chan Tower, Mischievous Kids Assemble, Plushie Operation, and the hedge maze Flower Maze, where provided glasses reveal the goal but also speed up the clock.
On the rides, the shapes are familiar and the tasks are not. Octo Cup has players spear treasure while bombing interfering octopus tentacles. Many attractions switch to first-person view, or shift into it partway through. The piece also tests how far players can wander into backstage areas marked for staff only.
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