Review PyramidHeadcrab 5/5 · Aug 1, 2023
One Of The Best Switch Exclusives
I'm doing a quick little review of this excellent game, because Capcom recently announced the game is being delisted from Apple Arcade. As such, the ONLY way to play this game after August 24th 2023 is on Nintendo Switch. I could bemoan the impermanence of digital media and plead for the gods to deliver a physical release of this gem... …
I'm doing a quick little review of this excellent game, because Capcom recently announced the game is being delisted from Apple Arcade. As such, the ONLY way to play this game after August 24th 2023 is on Nintendo Switch. I could bemoan the impermanence of digital media and plead for the gods to deliver a physical release of this gem... And I will. This game needs a physical release.
Anyway. What is Shinsekai? I almost have no goddamn idea, and that's precisely why I love it. It's an oddball little indie-scale game developed out of Capcom's "passion project" division. You start as, presumably, the last human left alive - isolated some depth beneath the sea, as glaciation forces you out of your home and deeper and deeper into the abyss.
That's the core conceipt of this game. Through events you never saw and that are not readily explained, the Earth is flooded and freezing over. The only place you can survive is the least hospitable place for an air-breathing human. The game has no dialogue, and the story is told completely through character animations and level context. You can only press on so deep before the pressure becomes too much for the human body to bear... So you have to find parts discarded from the surface world in caves, downed ships, and sunken buildings to upgrade your gear so you can continue to descend.
I love this game A LOT. It's not perfect, of course - the graphics are most definitely mobile game graphics, and the gameplay can become quite difficult at unexpected times... But it's really a special game, and one people don't talk about nearly enough.
Check it out!