Ever wished you could spend your entire shift simply saying "no", allowing your true pessimistic self to shine through without being told off for it? Well, Negative Nancy could be the ideal game for you.
Available right now in Europe (currently enjoying a 15% discount and priced at £9.68) and coming to the Switch eShop on Saturday 23rd October in North America, Negative Nancy is a choose-your-own-adventure narrative-based game with a twist: you can only say "no".
You play as the titular Nancy, a retail clerk stuck in a terrible job with angry customers and delusional bosses that ruin your day. Thankfully, unlike in real life, when playing as Nancy you don't have to worry about not getting fired by speaking your mind, and can spend your entire time telling people where to go. It's a simple concept but looks to have been delivered with a comical twist, as seen in the trailer above.
Technically, you can also opt to say absolutely nothing at all if you prefer, which can lead to different stories playing out. We're told that there are "four deeply branching stories with many endings to find", as well as a variety of characters to meet.
As anyone who's ever worked in retail will tell you, the customer definitely isn't always right. Here's your chance to tell them.
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Kinda love this
@Neoicelord It's around £10 in the UK :-/
NO
You say it best.
When you say nothing at all.
This gives me strange South Park feels, might check this out.
"Ma'am. Can you hear me? Are you awake?"
"No."
😆
There's already a game called Say No! More, which came out earlier this year... Plagiarism at its finest.
I don't pay more than a fiver for these telltale-style games. I know they have multiple endings and maybe some go back and play through multiple times to unlock them all, but to me they have no replay appeal beyond the first playthrough. Leaving aside exceptions like Life is Strange, they're usually not much more technically advanced than what could have been done on a PS2 either.
Should Nlife do a review of this game?
No.
Is that Weird Al in the thumbnail?
@PessitheMystic
It's not plagiarism. I played a more basic version of Negative Nancy a few years ago, before I heard anything about "Say No More".
Look here, someone plays a version of this game on Youtube 2 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IgW38kmsF0
Pretty sure I'm saying no to this.
@Neoicelord I love that they don't have this. I hate it when stupid wannabe funny achievements pop up inside a game that aims for immersion. And its also arguable if buying a game just to milk achievements is also a great idea. I mean the dev wouldn't complain for sure, but the sheer inbalance between getting a platinum trophy in a game like Dark Souls and in some random indie-minigame also emphasizes the weakness of this concept.
Anyways, I'm grateful that Nintendo chose to say NO to over achievements a decade ago and sticks with it.
I can already see the joke overstaying it's welcome.
@valcoholic I thought I was alone in the anti achievements camp. I’m so glad Nintendo sees no point in them. I wish there was a way to turn them off (and gamerscore) on the Twins.
@Neoicelord sure but from a company's standpoint I understand that this sorta fragments the audience and makes this system a bit pointless. I mean a bit. Not like its completely unnecessary, but I can understand why they wouldn't include them it in first place
@valcoholic Nintendo also said no to a mandatory subscription to be able to play games online until the switch then they said yes
hehe well sure, but I believe this is slightly diferent. achievements really is something you can implement or not while the online service is a whole own thing that earns them actual money. I mean its not like I would hate achievements so much, I sometimes do hunt them on PS4. but I do prefer Nintendo's way to handle them by just making them part of individual games. Like AC has a very big Achievement system on its own. Wonderful 101 had its own take and so on.
Sure on PSN and XB its different as you see everytihing on the account and so on but I guess I'm glad to just not having to think about this on my Switch.
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