BAFTA-Nominated Interactive Drama 1979 Revolution: Black Friday Hits Switch Next Month

Honesty time. I saw this on the eshop and immediately dismissed it thinking that it was a Rock Band type game. Saw the trailer and it is an instant buy. Thanks Nintendo Life for setting me straight. Not sexually. You know what I mean.

I downloaded this game for ipad and it was quite good but I found the subject matter to be too serious - drains all the fun from the gameplay. Still, if you're into this kind of stuff, it's a dramatic experience.

Might get it on sale.

Yeah this one caught my attention real quick. Fear not, for it is backlogged. I'd like to see a review.

I play games to escape this kinda stuff it makes no sense to me.

Yeah, I saw the cover and thought it was some guitar hero rip off rhythm game. Now I find out its about as far removed as you can get from that so, yeah, thanks for the tip, I am gonna have to try it

Switch has a wealth of interesting, original games. I cannot keep up with all these great releases. I'll put 1979 Revolution high up on my wishlist.

Yes! And with a discount to boot.

Don't buy it.

When it was released on Steam, I was quite excited about it. It's great that someone tries to tell the story of this strange historical event, especially in a videogame.

But it's not authentic. Most of the characters speak English and even the tiny fractions of Farsi that you hear are spoken with a heavy accent.
It was clearly written and produced by people who had nothing to do with the Revolution and for such a story-focussed game that's the ultimate downside.

Don't buy it.

When it was released on Steam, I was quite excited about it. It's great that someone tries to tell the story of this strange historical event, especially in a videogame.

But it's not authentic. Most of the characters speak English and even the tiny fractions of Farsi that you hear are spoken with a heavy accent.
It was clearly written and produced by people who had nothing to do with the Revolution and for such a story-focussed game that's the ultimate downside.

@SKTTR
'Switch has a wealth of interesting, original games.'

You must be joking, right? Original games are exactly what the Switch is heavily lacking (apart from some great Nintendo releases, but you have those on every Nintendo device). The overwhelming majority of Switch games are ports, not original developments. And that's the case for this game as well.

Errr... Double the price of an iPhone game from 4.99 to 11.99 and later place a 20% "discount"

Brilliant 🙃

I love the ignore function on this site!

@shani Well, you seem to forget that there are many games which are only published by Nintendo but produced by third-party companies (like Snipperclips or Fire Emblem). Furthermore you seem to forget about Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Gear.Club Unlimited, Golf Story, Mercenaries Saga Chronicles and recently released Octopath Traveler just to name a few. And also we got some more upcoming exclusive titles so the list goes on.

@shani I think by original the poster meant genres.

@NightBeast Exactly, there are only a few (I already included those second-party games). Just compare the number of total Switch games (here's a list to the number of original (exclusive) Switch games and you'll see what I mean.

BTW Gear Club is a port of a mobile game, not an original Switch game.
You probably just don't know/realize how many of the Switch games are actually just ports (or 'deluxe' versions) but you can look it up.
I can assure you you won't find a significant number of games that aren't based on a previous release from a different platform.

@NandN3ds Uhm, but the genre isn't original. The genre is called 'interactive drama' (see Wikipedia). Telltale games (and other companies) have been doing them for many years decades.

@shani : That was my concern. It sounds like such an intruiging and bizarre context for a game, but I strongly doubt that there will be any integrity or truth to it, so I am reluctant to give it the benefit of the doubt.

It also seems to pull a Call of Duty where parts of the game use the Arabic script (which Farsi also uses) but it's all gibberish and none of the characters are joined, which really removes one from the experience and demonstrates the contemptuous ignorance and blatant agenda to misinform from the persons involved in producing games like these, serving to only further antagonise those who have been suffering in the Middle East for far too long.

Of course, I can't vouch for the integrity of the game (yet) as I have only just heard about it, but I am skeptical, and with good reason. A complete Farsi dub with the option for other languages would have really served this game well. Playing something like this in English would totally remove me from the experience.

I would only (cautiously) consider this if a physical version were to be released due to the large size of the game.

If they'd tell a tale based on the 1953 CIA coup d'etat against Mosaddegh then I'd buy it.

But no producer would dare to tell such a story.

@Silly_G Yeah I really wanted to like this game but these things pretty much killed it for me too. I could forgive some inaccurencies and deviations from the truth because that's normal in art, but the fact that it's not even remotely authentic ruins the game.

Ah more turdward cluttering up a shop full of turdward

Was hoping this going to play like GTA.

"Freedom fighters"

Yeah, okay. (Evin Prison is still actively used, you know)

@Sabroni thanks for the laugh and the tip. Had know idea that there was an ignore button. Haha.

I'm pretty sure much of what went on to become Islamic State were once dubbed 'Freedom fighters' too.

The trailer really didn't do it for me but the game won awards so it's tempting to see what the fuss is all about. When it's much cheaper on another format though it makes me think twice about getting the game on Switch.

@shani On the forums here I shared an overview of all game genres for Switch (as I did with Wii U, Wii, Gamecube, and N64 respectively). I know what's original and never-seen-before on a Nintendo home console. I don't care if it's a port since I'm only engaged in playing on Nintendo consoles. Yeah, we had a few visual novels before, but still they're a rare niche all games considered. Especially a game like this that is about a very specific political era. A highly original game in terms of subject matter.

@SKTTR I've had every Nintendo console as well but you seem to have a very limited view on gaming.
Making games about a very specific political era is not a new thing at all, it has already been done multiple times in the last 30 years or so. But how would you know if you're disregarding all the other platforms?

Just because you're basically blind for non-Nintendo platforms doesn't mean all those ports are original releases. 🙄
Because they simply aren't by definition.

@shani The Xbox One only has seven true exclusives. Nintendo alone has released 12 original games that are NOWHERE ELSE but on the Switch

@607jf Are you actually involved in the Iranian revolution of 1979 on a daily basis then?

@shani You are confusing video games with the products you keep in your refrigerator and must be consumed before the expiry date. Video games are meant to be played and enjoyed no matter the year they were developed.

@Cosats he also doesn't know the difference between a port and a multiplatform release

@Mrtoad Does it actually only have 7 exclusives? What are they?

@shani

Yes, I have a Nintendo-centric view on this, nothing to hide because that's the games I always liked best in the last 2 and a half decades.

But since you're so well-knowledged in all parts of gaming, list me the many political visual novels and games that take place in Iran that make this game so unoriginal and old. I'm interested in more games like this.

@Aurumonado
-Azito x Tatsunoko Legends (Hamster)
-Forza Motorsport 5 (Microsoft)
-Halo: The Master Chief Collection (Microsoft)
-Halo 5: Guardians (Microsoft)
-Powerstar Golf (Microsoft)
-Rare Replay (Microsoft)
-Sunset Overdrive (Microsoft)

@Beatley82 I mean't politics, but good comeback tho.

Did I go through a time loop or something? I bought and preloaded this game 5 days ago, but every single game news outlet is only reporting on it today. What gives?

@BoilerBroJoe That’s typically because sites like these only officially receive the info after games are put in the Coming Soon section of the eshop.

@shani, the game's director has Iranian heritage and spent his childhood there during the revolution...

Allowing characters to have American accents/speak english in a setting where they normally wouldn't is unfortunate, but common across a number of mediums. I wish it weren't the case, but it makes these works more accessibly to western audiences. It's not enough to completely discount this game as "inauthentic" though, and people really should give meaningful games like this a shot.

@junktron Uhm, no it's not. Have you watched any Iran-centric movies recently? Even those produced in and directed by Americans include lots of Farsi.

@SKTTR Guess what, me too. I've been mostly playing on Nintendo home consoles and PC. But a) I try to keep up with major developments on the other platforms and b) most games can be played on PC as well.
But you only said games about a 'very specific political era', not about the Iranian Revolution. There are lots of games about specific political eras (like ancient Greek, Ukraine-Russia war etc.), but I don't know any other game about Iran either. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if there actually were other games about that.

@Cosats I don't really know which part of my comment(s) you're referring to, but yes, I actually don't enjoy (re-)playing old games.
They don't make you sick like expired food but they have all the many shortcomings that were fixed by progress in game development and game design.

@Mrtoad That's very true and the reason why I don't understand why anyone would buy an XB1.
That said, I expect more from a Nintendo device. The Wii U and Wii had lots of ingenious exclusives from third party developers.