rat

overworked horror creator

Columbus-based horror audio drama writer, occasional film photographer, and carbonated water drinker. #1 fan of cate blanchett in indiana jones and the kingdom of the crystal skull.

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Finished TotK plus all 152 shrines and now I'm looking for more switch games with fun writing/characters/story. But the process is so painful.

I need gamers to engage with one (1) other medium so I don't have to read "bioshock's story kind of went over my head, you really have to google some things" and 1000 posts about xenoblade.


Sorry to all the bladeheads out there but I was excited to try XC on wii a decade ago and it sucked ass. The music and environments were great, but the characters and dialogue were so flat and shallow. The combat was MMO lite (bad for me, some will love it tho), and on top of that, it took like 30 hours for anything to happen.

Another disappointment was AI: the Somnium Files. I loved 999 and Virtue's Last Reward, but I feel like I'm going insane seeing praise for the writing in the Somnium Files. I guess if you think a guy liking softcore porn is hilarious, then it's for you. It was a massive step down in quality for me, and a big jump up in unnecessary horniness and jeuvenile humor (receptionist has BOOBS???) and the mystery just wasn't as good.

I actually really liked the story in Tears of the Kingdom. I just want a decent plot and characters with more than one trait. My other fave stories/writing on switch include:

-I Was A Teenage Exocolonist
-Neon White
-Kentucky Route Zero
-Persona 5
-Anodyne 2: Return to Dust
-Fire Emblem: Three Houses
-Citizen Sleeper
-Disco Elysium
-Gnosia
-Hades
-Night in the Woods
-Return of the Obra Dinn
-Signalis
-We Know the Devil
-Witcher 3
-Skyward Sword

So if you all have any suggestions based on that, let me know


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  • I'm sort of baffled to learn that the remastered version of Planescape: Torment (1999) is now playable on Switch. That doesn't seem like the right platform for a game that text-heavy? Maybe I'm just being a desktop snob. In any case, I feel totally fine saying that Disco Elysium would not exist without P:T blowing the lid off of what the CRPG genre was capable of a generation earlier.
  • Iconoclasts (2018) is, chiefly, a very good action platformer, but its characterizations have substance in a way the genre doesn't strictly require. While quite a few parallels can be made with 2016's Owlboy (gorgeous art direction, a many-year-labor-of-love, etc.), I would rate Iconoclasts as hitting a bit harder.
  • The Excavation of Hob's Barrow (2022) thoroughly impressed me in a way that adventure games haven't managed to do in a long time. It stirred ancient memories of playing landmark games in the 90s and making me think to myself, "huh, this would totally work as a movie." This is in contrast to Unavowed (2018), a game that I definitely think is very good and a cut above the rest, but which nevertheless still left me feeling like I was playing an adventure game.