The Nintendo Switch has a fair few animated jigsaw puzzle games at this point (who can forget Animated Jigsaws: Japanese Women?), but this latest effort from Leonardo Zufi and QUByte Interactive is going for a slightly different approach.
Called ASMR Journey - Animated Jigsaw Puzzle, this new game blends relaxing jigsaw gameplay with – you guessed it – ASMR. As anyone who spends their evenings plummeting into the depths of YouTube for evening entertainment will know, ASMR (or Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) refers to that tingly, usually relaxing feeling you get when listening to certain types of carefully-crafted audio.
The result of this combination is a game that has you sitting down to complete puzzles, all while taking in "magical" and "peaceful" environments, an "immersive" soundtrack, and relaxing ambient sounds to help you truly unwind. If you still aren't quite grasping the whole ASMR thing, this squelchy Grimer should hopefully do the trick.
Here's ASMR Journey - Animated Jigsaw Puzzle's official game description, which admittedly leaves us with more questions than answers:
"ASMR Journey is a jigsaw puzzle game that takes you on a relaxing visit to lively and magical environments with a peaceful and serene environment, different levels of difficulty, immersive soundtrack with relaxing ambient sounds and a little story of magic and peace.
The journey starts with a girl opening the door to her bookstore in the corner of living room. It was the little witch who sell magic books. At hand was his new volume, with a peculiar name. But what journey would that be? Maybe we all need to know."
Do we all need to know? Well, it won't be long before we find out, as ASMR Journey - Animated Jigsaw Puzzle is launching on the Switch eShop today.
Let us know if this sounds like your cup of tea with a comment below.
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ASMR is, so creepy, especially the whispering. Hard pass for me!
Oh hell no.
I'm sure that this is a fine game, but I H A T E ASMR, so I would never buy this. ASMR is just so gross, and it makes me uncomfortable, and the food ASMRs are awful, and OH GOODNESS THE FLASHBACKS ARE COMING!
Note: I'm ok with plastic unwrapping ASMRs if they're short and not the main focus of the video, but even those I barely tolerate.
@HotGoomba Oh god, the chewing sounds! 🤢
@Clyde_Radcliffe Yeah, ASMR brings me a lot of anxiety. Something about the way the sounds are emphasized makes it feel less natural and most of the whisperers sound extremely creepy!
@Clyde_Radcliffe Same. I find ASMR videos unbearable, makes me want to almost literally scream. Apparently that means we have "misophonia", although I don't mind hearing most of the same sounds in real life.
@scottishwildcat I'm on the Autistic spectrum so everything sounds louder to me anyway which I think makes ASMR even more triggering! I don't need all these sounds to sound even louder than I already hear them, lol. It just sounds like a bad sensory overload to me.
I have to say I enjoy asmr darling who is the best! I do find it relaxing but not tingly. I watch an Asmeri eats a Nutella and m n m cookie pie, it is one of the best things I’ve ever seen xxxx
Saw this on the eShop and usually, i'd just ignore drivel like this, but i was curious enough to look up what's ASMR about this.
And from what i've seen, it's the marketing team understanding search terms and YouTube trends ¯(ツ)/¯
From stock "EnvironmentalSounds.wav" to video gamey boops and beeps, there is very little ASMR about it and this thing apparently lives from weird kiddies with ear shaped microphones who discovered a fetish that is marketable on a child friendly platform and who can now show video footage of a jigsaw puzzle game that mentions ASMR to be topical...
This is one of the weirdest trends in recent years...
In a way, this is almost brilliant...
I need to know.
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