Oh I thought you were hoping Valhalla would be similar to Snatcher. In that case, thanks for your recommendation.
My favorite movie of all time is Blade Runner (I can't wait for the new one!) so any game that has the title "cyberpunk" is almost a auto-buy for me. I own Deus Ex games, Dex, Satellite Reign and a few others that I can't think of. Anyhow I bought Valhalla because it was "cyberpunk" and had amazing reviews. I was very disappointed. I could of lived with it being exclusively a visual novel if the story was better and it had a variety of settings instead of just two. Snatcher does look very good and I would give it a try but it isn't available on any modern console or Steam. Maybe one day GOG will release it....
Edit: Holy mother, I just looked up Snatcher on Ebay and they are selling for around $280 to $300. Wow
Snatcher has been compared to Blade Runner on many occasions, so your in good company. LOL
I consider Snatcher to be one of the best games ever. I'd love to own a copy myself but the prices for it these days are ridiculous ($250+).
You should probably watch (or play if you can?) Policenauts, though. Unfortunately I haven't played/watched it yet, but I hear it's supposed to be a spiritual successor to Snatcher.
Snatcher is in my top 10 for sure, and based on my play times, it may be top 5. I've played it through to completion at least 5-7 times over the years, and for a game like this, where you know the outcome and story, that's nuts. I have Policenauts currently, and I started it years ago when the fan translation was first completed, but I haven't gone back to it yet, but I plan to.
As a huge fan of Snatcher, I have to recommend using an emulator to play it on your computer. Regardless of your moral stance on emulation.
I'm looking into it now... what's the best sega cd emulator?
Yeah, the prices are beyond silly now. When I first bought it, prices where up to $80-$100 at the time, and a liquidation company got it in and I bought 3 copies at the time for about retail(maybe less). I've sold all of them over the years, as once a game reaches a certain value, I feel uncomfortable playing it, especially a disc based game, as I'm to afraid I'll scratch it, so I emulate it myself now.
Depending on your device, RetroArch is good, as I use it on my Shield Portable to play Snatcher. I haven't played it to the end there, so I can't say if it may have issues later in game, but at the start, it ran fine. Make sure wherever you play it, you have a good d-pad that can do diagonals well. There are some shooting segments in game, and they happen on a 3x3 grid, so you have to move quick to each part to complete the segments, and it can be hard.
BTW, I know this is the wrong thread for this, but if anyone here still has their Virtual Boy(if your ever bought one to begin with), there is a Fan translation for Snatcher going on currently for the VB, and you can try the demo if you have a Flashboy. Check it out at Planet Virtual Boy.