I’ve handy it to the event employees of Rain Code: They are very expert at utterly upending your expectations from the get-go. I definitely anticipated to be shocked and shocked, on condition that these are the minds behind the beloved Danganronpa series–they know a factor or two about throwing gamers narrative curveballs out of nowhere–but even I wasn’t anticipating what occurred after about 30 minutes of introduction. I wished to place the Switch down and provides slightly “Well done!” clap. It’s a little bit of a disgrace, although, as a result of after that, not one of the different circumstances ever attain the identical excessive, regardless of some nice moments. That’s Rain Code in a nutshell: It cannot fairly attain the greatness of what got here earlier than it.Rain Code begins with a younger man waking up in some form of storage room. All he can bear in mind is that his title is Yuma Kokohead and he is acquired to catch a prepare that is headed to Kanai Ward–a company metropolis reduce off to a lot of the outdoors world, shrouded in perpetual, neon-lit darkness and rain, run by the Amaterasu megacorp, and managed by the militarized Peacekeeper pressure. It’s not lengthy after he boards the prepare that he finds out why he is going there: He’s a part of the World Detective Organization, which is sending a number of brokers in to research Kanai Ward’s ugly secrets and techniques. He additionally quickly discovers why he has amnesia: It seems he made a take care of a dying god for particular powers and provided up his recollections in change.
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That dying god, Shinigami, principally hangs round within the type of a tiny ghost that solely Yuma can see. It reads his ideas and makes sarcastic feedback till there is a thriller to be solved, which is when Shinigami stops time and transforms right into a buxom demon maiden to whisk him away to mind-palace Mystery Labyrinths the place issues get buck-wild. Here, he should battle logic monsters, evade dastardly false-solution traps, and unlock doorways with Evidence Keys that Shinigami barfs up in a bathe of rainbows. And additionally possibly crush thought limitations using Shinigami as a large kaiju. And play Pop-up Pirate along with her in a barrel on the seashore. Yeah, it is all just a bit bizarre.Much has been fabricated from the truth that Rain Code’s improvement group helmed the beloved Danganronpa journey sport sequence, which you will see (and listen to) clearly within the character designs, music, and delightfully outlandish character ideas. The similarities are greater than skin-deep, nonetheless: Rain Code’s gameplay construction is clearly modeled after these video games. Each of the sport’s six prolonged chapters has a plot-heavy setup, a homicide, an investigation, after which a group of minigames to catch the culprit–only, as a substitute of a mass trial run by a malevolent bear-thing, you are braving an extra-dimensional detective dungeon. Even the Logic Deathmatch battles you struggle within the dungeons are primarily a remake of Danganronpa’s contradiction-hunting Nonstop Debates, however with a sword as a substitute of gun to chop down falsehoods.Yuma, being each a detective trainee and an amnesiac, has some huge hurdles to beat. Fortunately, the opposite WDO members–a motley crew of quirky weirdos with love-or-hate character traits–all have a singular supernatural capability of their very own, starting from sensing life power or revisiting against the law scene from when it was first witnessed prior to now, to separating soul from physique or phasing by means of strong partitions. Yuma quickly finds he can share these particular expertise with their wielder, they usually change into essential throughout the course of investigations to collect clues and proof. For instance, Yuma can use obnoxious would-be casanova Desuhiko’s disguise capability to infiltrate an elite personal faculty the place a suspicious homicide has occurred within the drama membership. Getting to make use of these talents is a neat twist, although the instances you may really mess around with them are very restricted.As host to all the darkish happenings, Kanai Ward itself is a key factor of the sport: a moist, murky, and foreboding place lined with neon lights and winding passageways. Numerous thought has been put into the artwork design of the town and its assorted areas, and most chapters give you a portion of time to discover and admire the varied components of the town freely and speak to NPCs. Unfortunately, that is about all you are able to do; there are not any outlets or actions to be discovered right here. You can tackle some facet quests to construct up your Detective Rank (and be taught useful Mystery Labyrinth expertise through a ability tree), however these quests are universally bland, with bog-standard fetch-quest goals and wholly unmemorable NPC dialogue, finally feeling like pointless padding.In distinction, the Mystery Labyrinths that Shinigami creates to shut out every chapter are very well-designed and have loads of intriguing twists and turns, together with charming banter (and loads of downright weird bodily interactions) between Yuma, Shinigami, and different characters who get sucked in for the trip. The portrayal of a logical puzzle as a bodily dungeon is an pleasing conceit that permits the artists and puzzle designers to create some actually memorable traps, options, and liminal areas to journey by means of. While the Switch typically struggles with muddy-looking textures and slowdown, the general artwork design is a excessive level, as are the number of obstacles and glammed-up enemies Yuma should overcome. The number of obstacles and puzzles is nice, too. At one second you will be combating a literal battle of phrases towards a Mystery Phantom opponent who shouts assaults at you, and the following you will be reconstructing crime scenes or enjoying a QTE-type occasion the place it’s good to appropriately reply a query shortly as a way to escape hazard, solely to then be confronted with Shinigami in a rotating barrel you throw swords at to make a phrase, adopted by a finale wherein a large Shinigami should crush all psychological limitations that stand between you and the reality… amongst different issues. The mechanics in every of those sub-sections differ however are very straightforward to grasp and get the grasp of, making for continuously shifting gameplay that retains you in your toes.As cool and wild as lots of the character designs are in Rain Code, there’s merely not sufficient character interplay so that you can really feel a powerful connection or animosity in the direction of anybody. Both associates and foes alike are inclined to get a delegated chapter to point out off their talents and character quirks, solely to be relegated to minor supporting roles afterwards. Instead, a lot of the in-game interactions are solely between Yuma and Shinigami, who do have a really entertaining rapport with each other. You can see little facet tales with different main characters by means of discovering collectibles, although this requires additional legwork and nonetheless would not treatment the difficulty.This lack of character improvement and attachment is likely one of the principal the reason why Rain Code would not hit the identical sweet-spot that the Danganronpa video games did. Danganronpa video games had been extraordinarily character-driven, and that fed into the forever-tense, emotional environment: At any second, a personality you actually favored might wind up killed horribly, or–perhaps worse–turn out to be a cold-blooded assassin. That concern and inevitability of loss was pervasive and highly effective, making each second really feel weighty.Gallery Rain Code would not have the identical rigidity and urgency. The victims of the murders are characters you barely know, the specter of a tyrannical mega-corp’s unethical experiments is usually oblique, and a few of the huge story revelations simply do not hit as laborious as they need to. I additionally felt just like the Mystery Labyrinths, as pleasing as they had been, tended to tug out their conclusions. I’d often discovered the who and the way by across the midway level in every, which means I solely needed to puzzle out how the sport wished me to place every thing collectively. The result’s a narrative-driven sport with a narrative that lacks influence the place it wants it most and leaves you saying, “Wait, that’s all there is?” (An ending that wraps issues up just a bit too properly given the messy revelations of the ultimate chapter would not assist, both.)But regardless that it isn’t fairly nearly as good as Danganronpa’s dizzying roller-coaster highs, Rain Code is a strong detective journey that entertains and engages for almost all of its runtime. It’s acquired an intriguing idea, pleasing dialogue, an attention-grabbing and loads of daring, outlandish strangeness to carry a participant’s curiosity. I, for one, definitely hope this is not the final we see of Shinigami’s elegant snark.