Arquivos Master Detective: Rain Code Nintendo Switch Review!

You shouldn't blame the game for the fps issues. The Switch is a six years old portable console that had already weak hardware when it was released. Blame Nintendo for their laziness.

This game looks really interesting as something ive never played before.. Might pick this up later on.. thanks for the review!

Cool! Steam summer sale has unfortunately bankrupted me though. I’ll definitely pick this up at sale sometime in the future. Thanks for the great review SwitchUp, as always

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I've been looking forward to this game as I'm a huge Danganronpa fan. I've barely played though so I can't comment too much. One thing I will say that I am disappointed about is the fact that in handheld mode the game is blurry which I hate. The text and character portraits are crisp and lovely but the rest looks like it needs a sharpening filter run over it or something. As much as I prefer gaming on my switch if I had the option for ps5 I'd take that as I hate blurry looking games

Good review, i think i need to do a review of this because people are going to sleep on this game unless people promote it. This isn't a review but my first take from playing the games first case and reaching Kanai Ward (takes a while but its an enjoyable journey)

Initial impression:

Game is gorgeous, i've finished the introduction and am finally in Kanai Ward. It was an emotional few hours, with more twists and turns than a M.C Escher painting. Shinigami is… everything she describes in her difficulty selection and then some!
I've never played Danganronpa so I can't say how this compares, but so far the detective stuff really reminds me of Judgement, which I like, maybe a little more interesting than the original Judgement in that respect. As for the overworld I can't comment. Theres lots of story, the battles of logic in the mystery labyrinth sort of remind me of a more interactive version of the insult battles in the monkey island games.
Did I mention the game is gorgeous?

I'm not too fussy about graphics but I do appreciate when the image is clean, clear and smooth (regarding framerate ). Soo far other than a few textures most of the game seems quite nice, its on cri engine I believe, I dunno if their using some form of AA or they've just used appropriate asset detail but atleast of my tv i'm not noticing loads of jaggies, and its doesn't look really blurry so i'm assuming the resolution is either 900 or 1080p, either way it appears they've optomised the game well for the switch. . Framerate seems stable, dunno if its 30 or 60 i imagine 30 but either way, its not chugging.

The art style is really nice aswell, Theres something about the way they've used cellshading on the characters but objects in the environment appear to be not using cellshading, so the characters really pop, and then with the accents of neon and the rain, hot damn is it alot of eyecandy. but it works.

The voice acting imo is on point, the characters have alot of personality and its just a generally engaging game.
I'm interested to see what you can do in the town, i'm assuming it allows you to do some backtracking as thats a fairly common theme in point and click style adventure games which this seems to have some elements of.

I would say this game is more than it appears to be, for anyone who's been craving something a little different, this is that and then some, more linear than something like ToTK, but with some freedom to explore but more along the lines of Judgement, however I imagine Judgements world is more interesting to explore than this but we will see. I don't expect random things when exploring but its not out of the question.

It could really do with a demo because people will sleep on this game.

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Nice to hear. This game is getting dlc too surprising.

Combat is .. odd ?

Whelp! Yet another game in my ever growing wishlist! I really hope the next Nintendo console has full backwards compatibility because it's going to take me at least a decade to get through it!
But seriously, this looks like a great game, and the music sounds fantastic! It reminds me, in a very good way, of the music from Yuki Yuna is a Hero. Wonder if they share a composer…

A definite pick up for me!!

I've never played any of this game's inspirations, but I'm actually kind of curious about it. I may have to check it out at some point!

i am a danganronpa fan so of couse i was going to get this , but your review make it even more a must play !! although , i am confuse about the DLC , will they contain story content? so should i grab the deluxe instead of the regular one?

Kodaka himself said that the skills were there so the players could format their own custom difficulties. I highly recommend using…none of them except speed up 2 so you can move faster. I had a lot of fun and the game is actually hard sometimes if you play it your way. I also turned off the mini map for immersion, meaning I memorized the maps for even more immersion. There was no mini map in danganronpa, there was no forced skills in danganronpa. And I think they had it right at the start. I love this game, 10/10 for me. Great review, I appreciate any praise this game receives.

Ah finally. A review I see some aspects, reasons why I gave up on Danganronpa as a series. So much grabage design choices.

i already know this is gonna be a sleeper hit like kid icarus uprising

Good luck finding a standard copy. Been sold out for many days now at every retailer. Amazon, Best Buy, and Target in the states. They must not have released hardly any standard copies for retailers. Gamestop has it, but I will never pay them $8 shipping being a pro member. I checked all my stores in a hundred-mile radius and not one store has a copy. I was forced to buy a $111 limited edition with 5% off at target. I don't even get that shipped to me till around the 17th of July!!!!! 😭

I was really surprised when they gave an actual explanation for the color of the blood given that Danganronpa didnt have a reason