Cyberpunk Thriller The Red Strings Club Arrives On Switch eShop Next Week

These games are great, keepm coming. Also, i am fine with the two guys at then end being A)BFF's or B) Gay. Anyway i dont know **** about this game, but it looks hella cool.

Shades of Larry...

Pottery, you say? Patrick Swayze or preorder cancelled.

@FrowningCoach No offense, but I literally have no idea how you came to that possible conclusion based on that trailer, since I didn't get any of that from it at ALL.

I only saw two guys toasting and having a drink at the end of the video, but nothing really specifically pointing at any kind of deeper meaning than that, so I'm afraid you've kind of set yourself up for starting exactly that which you didn't want to happen...

love too have the first comment on a game that's decidedly not straight be "but they can't be TOO gay"

@ThanosReXXX People really got to stop Judging before they even know what it is about. "Don't judge a book by its cover."

At this rate my whole Steam wishlist is going to arrive on Switch!

@ThanosReXXX Just hope this game is as good as it looks. Reminds me allot of "The Darkside detective" which i loved.

@IceEarthGuard Are you implying that I am judging? If so, you couldn't be more wrong. I'm actually saying that there is nothing to judge about the game yet, no matter which way you look at it.

@FrowningCoach No worries man, it was just a friendly observation I made, based upon what info we could have possibly gleaned from the game so far.

@ThanosReXXX No I was just adding that to your comment basically towards the guy you said with your comment.

Sorry I didn't clarified well heheh.

@IceEarthGuard Ah, okay. No worries. Could also be my bad: it's Friday night, and I'm drinking...

Yay! I'M EXCITED! This has been one of my wants for a while now, just need persona 5 and Obra Dinn.

Another game on my Steam wishlist that I can get on Switch instead. My Steam wishlist has gotten so small.

Played this on Steam. Serious disappointment. The whole game lasted 3 hours at best and offered no replay and the narrative choices were often nonsensical within the context of the story's own world building. E.g. the story depicts a largely egalitarian society where all the visible positions of power in-story are held by women, but has characters lecture each other on the oppression of women. This is certainly a real issue in our world but why create a universe where the issue has apparently been resolved if your purpose is to highlight it? It's just bad writing.

@EvrgrnCmln

So this is a fantasy RPG?

I'm intrigued. I've not seen any SJW games on Switch so it would be cool to see at least a few good ones. As the Switch needs to connect to millennials to succeed the maximum it can this can only be a good thing. If you're unhappy this game wasn't written personally for you then just move on, there's no shortage of traditional games on Switch. Nobody should be telling anyone else that Switch can't have a game because it doesn't fit your politics/religion/beliefs. The more the merrier. Let creativity unfurl, let thousands of beautiful gaming flowers bloom. That way Switch can really have something for everyone. And that's good for everyone.

Been hoping this one would come to switch eventually. Great news

@Lionyone Got no problem with the game having liberal themes. My problem is with the writing - it creates a world where the issues it wants to address are not present (e.g. where women are equally paid, hold all the major political and power positions, etc) and then tries to argue for how problematic these said issues are. That isn't problematic thematic content, it's terrible writing. The game in general feels like its creators had themes they wanted to communicate and a concept they wanted to base a story on but did not realise or care that the latter was a poor medium for the communication of the former.

So I went over to Metacritic to kind of maybe settle for at least some undecided people the dispute raging in this thread! On Metacritic the PC edition of this game scored a worthy 80% average across critics and 7.6 across users. Unpick that and you get some impressive scores. IGN Japan gave the game a stonking 95%. Meristation and Spaziogames awarded it a hefty 90% each, and among users it scored three 10/10 and three 9/10. It's clearly a bit of a polarising game not least because some think that vaguely left wing politics shouldn't be anywhere near their games. So it's not for everyone. But there's equally clearly in the opinion of some, many solid elements there in terms of the game itself. So if you think it might be for you, you might just love it and enjoy it a lot.

Me? I'm intrigued and fascinated. The trailer wasn't that informative but the reviews on Metacritic emboldened me. I'm going to get this game and give it a go! Ideally I'd like it in physical with cool cover art and I'll try asking the developers for that, but if not I'll certainly give the eShop version a whirl and a spin!

https://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/the-red-strings-club/user-reviews

@FrowningCoach - I will say this game is actually one of those intellectual driven games of self questioning that skirts the LGBT stuff. That aside, don't let your preconceived fears of this game becoming a weapon of the progressively minded get in the way of enjoying the story. It's a trip when you start breaking it down.

Now the journalism surrounding it, I assure you, will weaponize it. As they did with Fear Effect Sedna being progressive of having lesbians (shows their history of that game, lemme tell you).

2064: Read only Memories, comes to mind. Good game even though it was a bit dorky and heavy handed.

@Lionyone Thanks, it does look like a great game. Was sold the minute I saw the trailer.

can't wait not to play this game

@BionicDodo I get you man, this has been on my steam wishlist since it came out. It's got great reviews on there but I don't play many games on my laptop. As soon as I saw this pop up I was like "DAY ONE, for sure, for sure"