If you had the opportunity to make everyone on the planet happy … would you? Would you eliminate depression? The suffering? The sadness? This is the big question that gives rise to this surprising cyberpunk adventure where decisions are everything. After passing through PC, we analyzed The Red Strings Club on Switch.
You end the game witnessing the consequences of your decisions, end of the trip! … but the experience The Red Strings Club does not end there . The Deconstructeam video game , the Spanish studio that years ago surprised with Gods Will be Watching , lingers in the mind; their moral dilemmas, their characters and the difficulties they must go through in the cyberpunk world in which the action of this narrative adventure takes placethey are still there, pounding your head, making you remember your decisions, your mistakes. And it is an incredible feeling; as well as a sample of the great creative talent that defines this small independent studio. It is not easy to tell a good story, they get it, much less that you get emotionally involved in it, but this is the case in this retro-style title that after its time on PC is now adapted to the Nintendo Switch circuits .
The story may not seem particularly interesting to you at first, but little by little, decision after decision, the video game traps you in its networks and does not let you go until the end. The premise? A large corporation plans to launch a ” happiness pill ” that will eradicate sadness and suffering on the entire planet, which would be great if it were not because they do not have a choice. Anyone with a cybernetic implant will receive this “free update”, which has motivated a hacker and a bar owner, who is himself an information broker, to mobilize against him. And now comes the million dollar question. Is Social Psychic Well-Being Really That Bad? Are we really against ending fear and pain? The greatness of The Red Strings Club is that, throughout the nearly five hours it can take us to complete the adventure, it makes you think hard about this question. More still. You may even doubt yourself at times. Do I really want to do what I’m going to do? Is the initiative of Supercontinent Ltd. so bad? It’s up to you to choose, make decisions, and then bear the consequences.
Now available on Nintendo Switch The Red Strings Club
A crusade against … happiness?In the vein of Gods Will be Watching, The Red Strings Club is conceived as a point & click adventure based almost exclusively on conversations . And I emphasize the “almost” because, really, we find ourselves with three games in one. I explain. Dialogues are the axis of action; Based on our questions and answers, we will determine the course of history with notable variations, but it is not as simple as asking and answering. In the role of Donovan, we will have the power to change the moodof people preparing very special cocktails, and based on this we will get one or the other answers. Do we want to get information from someone? What interests us? What is scared or confident? As I said before, you decide! And the truth is that the feeling of power is incredible. Also the fear of failure, because this is a video game where there is no going back. Every action has its consequences and whatever you do, the story will move on.
Generate fear? Enhance rebellion? Increase lust? Depending on the mood of the people, they will respond in one way or another to our questions.
Every action has its consequences and whatever you do, the story will move onPreparing cocktails is not a particularly complex action, and it is not that you are going to have a great time doing it; all you have to do is create the perfect mix, use the right dose, and season it or not with a couple of ice cubes. The fun, however, lies in finding the right emotion and the right questions. That’s when you hit the spot, when you slyly get the information you want when you feel incredibly powerful. What else does The Red Strings Club offer? In a very specific way we will also face a minigame based on the elaboration of cybernetic implants in a kind of potter’s wheel, where we will mold different pieces that will also change people’s emotions and attitudes. Do not think that it is a simple hobby. Even this action will have unexpected consequences throughout an adventure that always keeps interest in his story high.
The story is so interesting, and offers such exciting moments, that once you complete the game you will want to try different paths. What would happen if…?
The quality of the dialogues helps a lot to this; the naturalness with which the protagonists of The Red Strings Club live and suffer the consequences of their actions. Deconstructeam has managed to shape an exciting story with multiple ramifications that you will want to explore if only out of curiosity, to know what would have happened if you took a different path. And although it is true that playable is a fairly simple title, with little to offer, the quality of its story translated into SpanishIt’s good enough to want to keep going no matter what. The emotions that it arouses in you, how great it is at times when you even take notes in a notebook to keep relevant data for the investigation present, make this title something special. If even the simple act of sitting down, picking up the phone and calling several people with the ultimate aim of extracting information is great fun, and a good example of the great work done narratively speaking.
The Nintendo Switch version, with its touch screen, offers a gaming experience close to the PC originalNo less spectacular is the video game aesthetically , with a high quality retro style that surprises with the level of detail achieved in settings and characters. Each location, each of the protagonists of the story, has a high-quality artistic finish that adds to a commendable soundtrack that gets you right into the action. “Creating a video game is super difficult”, says Deconstructeam once the adventure is complete, but much more to create a work of such quality whose plot flows so naturally, so surprisingly, until it reaches a simply spectacular zenith. And this is the great virtue of The Red Strings Club, which is no small thing.
His jump to Nintendo Switch has been solved in a successful way, highlighting once again the possibility of enjoying his action anywhere thanks to the Portable Mode of the hybrid console. In this sense, Decostructeam takes advantage of the machine’s touch screen, thus allowing us to enjoy a gaming experience close to the original with the use of the mouse.
“Excellent”
The Red Strings Club
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Feeling part of the story it tells, taking sides in it! Is one of the greatest virtues of The Red Strings Club, a great narrative adventure that will face you with difficult moral decisions that, even once the game is completed, will still be there, making you think, leading you to question your way of seeing the world. Is not easy; And this is how the Spanish study Deconstructeam denotes great talent shaping a video game that, yes, offers little challenge at the playable level, but is exciting in the plot.
- An amazing story with a high-quality narrative
- The decisions you face and the consequences
- Its aesthetics, the music, the noir style of the story.
- Few challenges in the playable; almost everything revolves around the dialogues
