Sometime in the future, somewhere in the United States...
In the laboratories of Genemp Corporation, a young woman wakes up from a deep slumber with none of her memories intact. Or her body, having been genetically augmented with assorted machines granting her superhuman abilities. However, she remembers her codename, LC-16, granted by those who created her, and when she finds a katana and sees herself staring down legions and legions of hostile robots, Lucy (the name given to the protagonist in the game's manual, derived from her codename) remembers she can kick so much ass.
Beyond Sunset is a Stylish Action cyberpunk-themed FPS / Hack and Slash action game developed by Metacorp, an Australian Indie company.
Players assume the role of Lucy, an amnesiac cyber-samurai who awakens from the bowels of a laboratory overrun with hostile robots, and needs to investigate what actually happened - while destroying everything that gets in her way.
A demo of the game was made available in 2021; an updated follow-up that continues Lucy's story after the ending is scheduled sometime in 2023.
You don't remember who you are... do you? Perhaps it's better if you forget...
- After the End: As the ending reveals, turns out the world outside is a wasteland after humans lost a Robot War and are conquered by machines. Lucy used to be one of the human forces' best resistance fighters, until the machines captured her alive and turns her into one of their own bio-weapons before she eventually broke free. And then, a second war is coming to wipe out the remaining pockets of mankind…
- Air-Dashing: Lucy can dash really, really far while in mid-air, over Bottomless Pits and fatal drops. It's especially useful in platforming stages which the game has plenty.
- Amnesiac Hero: Lucy doesn't have any memories of her past and how did she end up in Genemp Corporation's laboratories. The entire game is her Quest For I Dentity - that and killing tons and tons of robots.
- Attack Drone: Several armed drones attacks Lucy in a level outdoors, set above the city skylines where she's leaping between platforms and battling the drones simultaneously.
- Bottomless Magazines: Lucy's first firearm, a weak laser pistol, has the benefit of being the only firearm that doesn't require reloading since it recharges itself periodically.
- Charged Attack: Lucy's default pistol, when holding down the trigger, will accumulate energy around the barrel. Releasing it delivers an enhanced shot that deals multiple damage.
- Cyber Ninja: Lucy, especially when players chose to use the katana extensively.
- Double Jump: Another ability Lucy can perform, either to reach secret areas or higher platforms.
- Giant Mook: The game starts throwing gigantic robot enemies halfwway around, with lower-level regular mooks only sttanding near their waists. They range from one with dual Power Fists and an ability to deliver a Shockwave Stomp upon Lucy, to another armed with dual flamethrowers.
- Guns Akimbo: When the enemies starts getting really dense in numbers, the game helpfully grants Lucy dual machine-guns for her to More Dakka her way through levels.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Most of the human-sized mooks will be halved either horizontally or diagonally if killed by way of katana. As does some of those larger ones who breaks into sizeable chunks.
- Hopping Machine: The game grants jumping abilities, oddly enough to one of the two Giant Mook-variety robots. Beware, it's about to land with a Shockwave Stomp if it jumps.
- Justified Tutorial: The opening virtual reality training stage, which is Lucy going on a test-run by the Genemp Corporation before her activation.
- Katanas Are Just Better: Lucy's first available weapon is a katana she collects from Genemp Corporation's lobby (why is it on display just like that without safeguards is never addressed) and it's one of the best weapons she can use - most mooks falls apart in just a swing owing to it's Absurdly Sharp Blade, she can deflect bullets with it, and when she's out of ammo for most of her weapons the katana can provide surprisingly effective backup.
- Kill It with Ice: When Lucy reaches the Genemp Corporation's freezer rooms. Aim for the coolant tanks, where enemies will inexplicably stand close by, as blowing up the tanks will turn all surrounding enemies into blocks of ice. One more hit reduces them to Literally Shattered Lives.
- Machine Blood: The robots can bleed yellow, turquoise, and even red.
- Mecha-Mooks: All those enemies Lucy spends the whole game battling are robots, of assorted sizes. The basic ones are pretty mindless, but the red ones appears closer to Robot Soldiers with their military-styled uniforms and being trained in using firearms.
- Mysterious Informant: Raven, who only shows up on a video screen to Lucy without revealing her face. She seems to have some sort of history with Lucy and reappears in the final FMV, but as of now nothing else is revealed (maybe until the 2023 complete release).
- Parrying Bullets: Lucy's default katana can deflect shots fired at her, and the reflected bullets tends to end up in their shooters.
- Shadowed Face, Glowing Eyes: Raven, the mysterious contact revealing herself to Lucy on a video screen and later appears in the ending FMV, whose face is hooded in every scene and only her glowing eyes being visible.
- Shield-Bearing Mook: Some of the red-armored droids carries shields for blocking bullets. A Charged Attack will get rid of those shields easily.
- Shotguns Are Just Better: This game's shotgun is a futuristic version of the AA-12, with a drum holding it's shells and can fire powerful rounds capable of turning mooks into a bloody stain.
- Shout-Out:
- Part of Lucy's virtual simulation in the opening stage looks remarkably like the 90s 3D-Maze screensaver.
- One of the levels drags Lucy into a video game-esque world (when she's already a video game character!) modeled exactly like the computer world in TRON. The enemies are even Huge Holographic Heads not unlike the Master Control Program.
- Sword Lines: An upgrade sharpens Lucy's katana to deal even more damage than it already does; when in use her slash will leave behind a red line every swing.
