Arriving later this week on Switch eShop, MGP Studios' Sinless is a point-and-click visual novel hybrid hoping to capture some of the spirit of Hideo Kojima's 1988 graphic adventure Snatcher. Set in a cyberpunk future, you reside in an 'Omni-Care sanctioned city' in a world that's been consumed by a 'New Order'.
On the surface everything appears hunky dory with crime essentially eradicated thanks to mandatory cybernetic implants. As you might have guessed, things aren't quite what they seem as corporations have replaced governments and we'd wager there's some horrific hidden side to this seeming utopia. There usually is.
The trailer above gives you an idea of of the art style, but very little else. The game has been on PC since December 2015, though, and the eShop blurb for Sinless references titles such as Rise of the Dragon and Kojima's aforementioned cult classic along with the following features:
- A unique story and lore: Remember that you are thrown into a world of specific rules, laws, customs, lingo, social segregation etc which you will learn and unravel in time along the way.
- Old school gameplay. Therefore many features or lore related backstories/explanations are not thrown in your face. Instead they are somewhere in the world.
- Hand crafted with love: animations, graphics,textures and other assets.
- A fitting and engaging dynamic Original Soundtrack by Roland Redwood, designed and tailored specifically for the game.
- Game Over: when we said "old school" experience we were dead serious. You will die...alot.
- Easter Eggs & references. Yup, we got that covered.
As trailers go, we have to say we haven't seen one quite so vague for a while, but the screenshots and the blurb certainly sound intriguing. On Steam Sinless currently has a Mostly Positive status, so it may be worth keeping investigating if any of the above sounds appealing. It's out on Thursday and it'll set you back $9.99 / £8.99 / 9,99€, with a file size of 2.1GB.
Let us know below if you're excited for a Snatcher-esque experience on Switch.
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I generally love VN games but not really feeling drawn to this one.
Im sad we will never get a Snatcher remake, nor a sequel to the original Snatcher. Snatcher is without a doubt one of Kojimas best works. Since not only is it primarily storytelling, but its packed full of content and that good ol Kojima humor.
Guys, Snatcher isn't from 1998, Metal Gear Solid is. The SEGA CD version of Snatcher, the official English release, came out in 1994 (just when Policenauts did!) and the MSX original hails from 1988.
@Noelemahc Holy crap, I didn’t realize it was from 1988. I’ve played Snatcher, but I guess I always assumed the localization happened much quicker.
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Yeah I was about mentioned that I remember playing it on Sega CD definitely before 1998
@Noelemahc A slip of the finger - corrected now Thanks
@imgrowinglegs Well, depends on how you look at it. It came out in 1988 in Japan on the PC 8801 and the MSX 2. But this version was much different then the Snatcher you are probably fond of. Those are 8bit systems, and the game didn't have its cinematic feel, it was basically just a traditional point and click text adventure like you'd find on many DOS systems in the west at the time.
The PC Engine (known as Turbo Grafx 16 in the west, though the game wasn't released in the west) version was released in late 1992, and is very close to what we played in the west on the Sega/Mega CD.
The Sega/Mega CD version was actually released in the west first (1994 UK, 1995 US), and then the Japanese got it in 1996 on the Mega CD.
So in a way, we got the Sega version first
Reading Neuromancer right now, so would be up for a cyberpunk game, but this trailer doesn't grab me. Prefer to see some proper gameplay.
Would love to have Snatcher and Policenauts on Switch.
So Konami how about porting Snatcher or that too much effort ?
Fine I'll play Rise Of the Dragon and Blade Runner instead.
I need Snatcher
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