TGS players try Ananta, the game that looks like an anime GTA, Spider-Man, and Yakuza hybrid, and shockingly report that it feels like an anime GTA, Spider-Man, and Yakuza hybrid

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While some worry the similarities may result in a Palworld situation

Chenxiu wields a rocket launcher while wearing sunglasses in Ananta, from the PlayStation gameplay trailer
(Image credit: NetEase)

Tokyo Game Show 2025 featured a demo for the GTA, Spiderman, and Yakuza-like Ananta, and would you know it, people are saying it feels like GTA, Spiderman, and Yakuza.

From the moment Project Mugen – now known as Ananta – was officially announced by publisher NetEase, it drew comparisons to Marvel’s Spider-Man thanks to its swinging gameplay, which was swiftly followed by comparisons to GTA and Yakuza once the game's open world stylings were revealed. In fact, if you throw every hit open-world game from the past 10 years into a blender and drop some anime juice in there, you might just get that.

Automaton also reports that some players are very excited to see references to their favourite games in Ananta, however some are a bit less keen about the lack of originality, with one user saying "I don’t want to say anything about plagiarism, but I feel like they’re going to get sued and change the [Spiderman-like] mechanics midway through" presumably in reference to the ongoing legal issues between Palworld and Pokemon's publishers that resulted in mechanics being changed.

Scott McCrae
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