There’s something deeply primal, dark and alluring about the Cthulhu Mythos. I even played game after game of Arkham Horror without realising it was based on Call of Cthulhu for far too long. It wasn’t until years after I’d played it that I realised it was inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos and borrowed heavily from H.P. One of my most played and favourite Gamecube games was Eternal Darkness. I liked Lovecraftian horror before I even knew what it was. Overall though, the Switch version of The Sinking City is well worth playing and definitely a great version of a great game. Hopefully, a patch can be released to speed this up. Sometimes the game has to load when you enter a new location, or move from exterior to interior and it takes forever. On PC, it did take a little while to load but on Switch it’s noticeably longer. My one and only gripe with The Sinking City on Switch is the length of loading times. I didn’t really notice much of a difference in the way weapons sound, though Frogwares says it put in a lot of work to improve the experience. However, if you don’t want a bar of it, the good news is you can turn motion controls off. That way, you use the right-hand Joy-Con to control all motion aiming and don’t need to move your left hand at all. My favourite way is holding a Joy-Con in each hand. You can’t use motion control aiming to move along the X-axis unless you’re using the Pro Controller, Joy-Cons or Joy-Con Grip. When playing in handheld mode, tilting the Switch up and down will move your reticle along the verticle axis.
Usually, I find this gimmickry to be terrible and I turn it off as soon as possible. New to the Switch version is the ability to aim your weapons with gyro controls. It’s not gorgeous but it’s not ugly either. Whatever the case, on Switch, The Sinking City looks good enough. In fact, the move to the Switch’s, lower-res screen, might actually help to hide some of the blurry texturing and low-poly models. The Sinking City on Switch loses a little of its visual fidelity, though it was never the prettiest game, to begin with. Whatever the case, I want all games to be released on Switch, so I can play everything in handheld mode. Maybe because the console can do it, I prefer to play that way. Playing in handheld mode is always a preference for me on Switch.
On Switch, it’s the same great game with a few new tricks up its sleeve. Frogwares’ Lovecraftian inspired detective game is a hell of a lot of fun, even if it’s pretty damn janky at times.
The Sinking City is one of the games I’ve enjoyed most this year.
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