Arc System Works Announces Its New Interactive Adventure For Switch

Well, I was watching the trailer thinking this isnt my thing. Then the director says this is aimed at adult women, so I guess my initial thoughts were correct.

Probably the game I'm most interested in from the showcase. It looks like a super pretty game and I bet it's going to be a good time story wise

Might give it a look, seems like the kind of thing I'd enjoy.

What is this slice of life anime looking title? Is it a new IP and a point and click adventure? I see what its by.

If you're looking at that and going "Huh. So that's what Hotel Dusk would look like in HD?" that's on purpose.

The Unika leak had a game with a "projected time to beat of less than an hour." From a creative standpoint, yes there's only so much you can do with no dialogue so of course the story's short: but from a business perspective why would you make such a game platform exclusive in the first place?

Cause it's a test of the tech you plan on using for a much BIGGER game that is in an IP OWNED by that game platform.

Of course, this game existing on it's own could also mean the exact opposite: Arc put a bunch of R&D money into pitching Kyle Hyde Duology HD, and this is them trying to recoup cost after it got rejected.

It can really go either way. It's 2 hours past my bed time, and the sleeptpills may be making me a tad delusional

I've been buying almost every Switch 2 title released, though I think I will be skipping this one.

I'm interested in this one. Another Code Recollection I really enjoyed and Hotel Dusk I also really liked. Guess those reports that ex Cing employees working at Arc System Works was true then

I am an adult man. Yet, you have my attention.

I like the style, but the trailer makes it seem like the game could be rather shallow. I hope the story is somewhat interesting and not only people grinning into the camera for 2 hours.

When this opened the ArcSys showcase I should have realized the next 30 minutes of my life are ones I'd never have back.

ooooh I am very curious. This is shaping up to be an expensive year.

I swear ‘letter to myself’ by Futhermore popped into my head from this trailer.

A Hotel Dusk remaster would be most welcome.

For some reason I found the voiced elipses in the Another Code demo really jarring and couldn't move past them. Pressing a button to hear someone sigh felt weird and it happened a lot.

@Zeebor15 I hope this leads to a Hotel Dusk / Last Window collection. I never thought they'd revisit Another Code and yet that's exactly what happened. Fingers crossed!

I suppose it won't work on Switch 1 due to the console's poor performance.

Call me intrigued and thanks for reminding me to get Another Code, still.

Very interested in this, I guess I'll be identifying as an adult woman for a while.

Sounds intriguing. Reminds me of a certain adventure of a travelling salesman and a girl in white dress. I can almost see the night sky and a neon hotel sign

@Dalamar the best "identifying as"

Taisuke Kanasaki's art + rotoscoping. Just take my money.

From the trailer, it looks like it runs at 2 frames per second.

Not what I expected (where's my Hotel Dusk collection…😢) but I take it.

@Moistnado You seem to be mistaken the animation style with it being low fps. You can clearly see when there's a mouse curser moving that the fps is normal.

Not sure what gameplay is going to be like i wait on reviews. Summer is jammed first me game wise up to the end though.

Clearly utilizing the SW2 to the max..

I like it still tho.
At least ArcSys cannot botch thr plot likr in R's portion of AnotherCodeRecollec-

Wait.
ArcSys. Maybe skip after all

Hotel Dusk? You have my attention.

Oh wow! I guess I'm filing this as the first Switch 2 game I actually genuinely want!

Whoa, this is cool, I don't see myself blowing 500 on a game console but if I did, this would be the first thing I get.

Love Kanasaki's art.

If this is another stepping stone that gets us closer to someday checking into Hotel Dusk, I'm all for it. I'm a long-time fan of Kanasaki, so I'll keep tabs on this.

I'm not an adult woman, but again, such an announcement from ASW is even better news than a fighting game in my book.

Ooh, ooh, me! I'm an adult woman! I like weird experimental games!
And I guess I like games that will DEFINITELY make me cry.

I'm seriously gonna cry. The Hotel Dusk and Another Code games are some of my all-time favorite!!!! Physical release please!!

Cool, I was just reading about this game within the last week and wishing it would come to original Switch! I find wordless storytelling fascinating, as it's so foreign to me.

Yes
Yes
Yes !
I needed this in my life.

@JohnnyMind Agreed, very interesting to see a game release for current-gen before last-gen. Maybe they could only focus on one version at a time and wanted to capitalize on launch window sales?

@JohnnyMind I saw that you're going to play it as well. Hope we both enjoy it! 😄

Nintendo Switch 2 is already losing its exclusives one by one, lol. 😂

Oh, that's promising. It must have done at least decently well if they're considering putting it on the original Switch too. I'd love to see more of this type of game on either console (or both)!

I feel like Dear Me, I Was is overrated. I typically enjoy games like this and bought it for NS2 based on some positive reviews. It just didn’t do it for me. Takes about 45 mins to play through. I ended up playing through twice (90 minutes) to see if I’d have more appreciation the second time. I really didn’t. I don’t think it’s terrible or anything. But I think it’s average at best. For context I had good times with Hotel Dusk and Another Code Recollection.

I previously said that this would be my first Switch 2 digital game. But if I can give it a try on Switch 1 and there's a Switch 2 upgrade, I wouldn't say no to that. If not, oh well. I'll still wait for the moment I get a Switch 2.

I love all of these kinds of games!!

...Huh. Maybe Kyle Hyde will be one of the last cross-gen games?

Another Code Recollection was hit and miss for me.

It controls and looks like modern in a boring way, so we just have to have 3rd person because casuals are lazy and won't take anything that isn't 1st person/3rd person camera it can't be any other camera angle because reasons.

Story works, puzzles cut down from the originals and the ones it has aren't great, or not as well communicated.

The motion one in the beginning is not well done motion, it's atrociously designed. Whether handheld, 1 joycons or resetting it's so bad. I like motion controls but it's badly done. So it having motion is not my issue at all.

Let alone another one that was more normal but isn't well explained, it felt point and click like but in a very I didn't know what thing I was missing interacting with or hitting the keys right on the piano.

That or the end scene ones building up getting out of the room also was a pain. I did beat the first game and am paused at the start of the second one but the 1st one had awkward moments of gameplay.

Awkward texturing with even rocks near the boat at the beginning of the game, having not well hidden textures.

No game select, just '1st one always the start,' which is dumb. What did they think people would complain saying 'I didn't get my money's worth yet I'm too stupid to play both' yet the devs were too stupid to add a game select menu and just combined them instead.

Combined together with no way to go back to collect the prior collectibles you missed in the first game so you go back to a prior save and redo the story scenes again which is annoying.

I'm maybe interested in the next game but this remake had issues that were easy enough to fix yet didn't. I haven't checked for updates though.