Ratalaika Games has revealed that Shadow of Loot Box, a first-person shooter that "that picks jokes at microtransactions", is headed to Nintendo Switch.
The game essentially tasks you with getting hold of weapons and fighting against an army of evil loot boxes. Each level of the game serves as a reference to a popular trend within the modern game development industry, seemingly taking a dig at all the aspects we don't tend to like. The game's PR gave us quite the chuckle with its opening line.
"If you always thought that there were too few loot boxes in other games, this game is for you!"
Players must attempt to overcome a "thorny path full of microtransactions, loot boxes and bugs", resisting the temptation to use the in-game store. You can check out a similarly parodical feature list below, as well as a handful of screenshots (which are taken from the Steam version of the game released earlier this year).
Game Features:
- Loot Boxes
- More Loot Boxes!
- Micropayments
- Pre-Pre-Early Access
- Cut content
- Procedurally Generated Quests
- Towers and Outposts
- 16 levels to explore with different topics
- 4 bosses
- And much more!
The game is aiming for a Switch release "before Christmas 2018".
Will you be giving this one a go for a good chuckle? Or are you perhaps a defender of the loot box army, offended by the suggestion that they only intend to rob us of our hard-earned cash? Let us know your thoughts below.
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I dig the asthetics so as long as the content is good I think I’d get it. Got a laugh at the achievement joke too
I don't think I'll be buying it as I'm not big on shooters but I can appreciate the humour in it.
P.S. The important question. Does it have motion controls?
Hmm, blocky block graphics are blocky and not to my taste.
Incoming lawsuit from EA for copying their “innovative” game designs.
When Mimics attack...
I can understand what they were going for but, er, did they have to make an entire game out of it?
It's humorous, I'll give it that. It just doesn't look fun to PLAY though. It looks more like a boredom simulator that has you run around until you come across a meme or joke, or reference to something stupid the gaming industry did... Then you go "LoL LMFAO ROFL" and move on to the next one.
Yes, you say the abbreviations out loud, you don't actually laugh out loud, laugh your buttocks off or roll on the floor laughing.
@Blizzia LMBO
@ThatNyteDaez i think it's dam hilarious XD i wouldn't mind buying this myself just for the lolz.
and lol @ the fallout 4 meme too.
Cool, fun premise, but it doesn't look like it takes it far enough and really builds the string of humor. It looks like an empty boring shooter designed for fun and some humor as a concept bolted on later.
I can admit though the DRM Error is hilarious
I quite like the mincraft-esk art style, but the gun's seem to lack power and the enemies seem meek. It may surprise yet, but I doubt it - I don't predict good reviews for this one. Shame.
I usually don't care about graphics, to the point of liking (some of) MVCI. But they could have at least tried.
Yeah, the game sucks. Having just finished it, every level is just secretly the same half-assed fetchquest style, only with a different spin on it.
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