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Why did no one tell me about Dry Drowning switch free download before? It is very much my kind of experience. It’s thought-provoking, has a solid grounding in literary tradition, and weaves a gripping narrative. Looking through some of the other reviews that have popped up since the game launched on PC back in 2019, it would seem that there are a lot of people that are unfamiliar with the noir… on any level, so perhaps that’s why Dry Drowning didn’t get the attention it deserved, but it is one of the best applications of that genre since Raymond Chandler himself. ROMSLAB.COM Best Switch Games

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Dry Drowning takes place in an isolated city-state that has cut itself off from the rest of the world, and it has doubled down, hard, on fascism. The ruling party are outright Nazis that plan to persecute foreigners in the way that the Nazis did, and paranoia and tension run high through society, since every person is documented and monitored, Internet use is restricted, and many of the police are on the take. You play as a private detective who, in true noir fashion, is a morally compromised former cop-turned criminal, and you’re thrust deep into a truly horrific series of murders that are being perpetrated by a serial killer that enjoys arranging his victims up though they’re the performance of some of his favourite Greek myths.

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There’s so much to unpack in just this. From the top: though the game was released in 2019, it is such an astute (and quite overt) observation from an Italian developer on the fascistic tendencies of many western democracies. The city-state of Dry Drowning does indeed hold free and open elections, with the game’s writers explicitly arguing that in modern times, fascistic tendencies don’t occur exclusively in single-party dictatorships. Early on the leader of the more overly fascist party is potentially arrested and imprisoned (depending on your own actions in investigating the crime that he’s accused of) and makes a speech that is a near 1:1 prediction of Trump’s speeches in rallying up the support he needed for his little march on the capital earlier this year. Perhaps most poignantly, there’s no indication that things are going to get better with the “moderate” party in power, and that, I feel, is the real crux of what the developer is saying in this politically-loaded game. Sonic Mania Plus Switch NSP

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Then there’s the stylised performance of the murders. Dry Drowning is an extremely graphic game for these – you generally only see the murders via hologram (we’ll get to that soon), but they’re still extreme, and the accompanying narrative from whatever Greek myth that they link to makes them something of a morality play. It’s a little like how the great modern noir film, Se7en, depicted a killer who was linking his murders to the Christian seven deadly sins in such a way that he was making a perverse point of it. We rarely get games that extend the concept of a murderer beyond “bad guy must be stopped because bad,” but Dry Drowning gives it a red-hot go.

Visual Novel

“Visual novels” seem to be more and more common on the Nintendo Switch. A lot of speculation can be made why this is so. One reason is that they make for great low-key, short interactive sessions on a portable gaming system. Sessions that are perfect fits for a train or bus ride to and from the office. For me personally, I like reading, I’m just not a good novel book reader. I prefer my reading with illustrations, hence comic books, graphic novels, and yes, visual novels on a gaming system. One of the latest entries to enter the fray is Studio V‘s Dry Drowning on the Nintendo Switch. Space Otter Charlie Switch NSP

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Simply put, Dry Drowning is an investigative murder mystery visual novel set in the futuristic, almost cyberpunk-ish, dystopian universe of Nova Polemos. Dry Drowning was originally released for Microsoft Windows in August of 2019 and is now seeing a port to the Nintendo Switch. Throughout the game, you’ll play as private investigator Mordred Foley. Mordred was accused of falsifying evidence and was acquitted due to a lack of evidence. Foley is looking for redemption while he obsessively tries to catch a mysterious killer known only as “Pandora”.

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To be blunt a visual novel game like Dry Drowning is just what you’d expect. It’s less about trigger fingers and more about the story. There’s a lot of reading of dialogue that takes place back and forth between characters. There’s a lot of journal reading, known as AquaOS, as well. Unlike other games, some reading of journal entries is required if you want to “succeed” in this game. Another interactive example is you’ll also do things like interrogate suspects. There doesn’t seem to be any right or wrong way to interrogate, unfortunately. At given points throughout the game though you’ll have to make statements where you become the prosecutor and you need to state your facts. Stardew Valley Switch NSZ

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Dry Drowning tries to break up the monotony of just reading with some fulfilling interactive elements. For example, the story changes course based on your choices. The developers have stated there are more than 150 story branches and 3 completely different endings. Throughout the game, at key moments you have to pick one of two choices. Unfortunately, these choice screens unearth one of our few minor complaints. The user interface doesn’t clearly highlight the choice you are making. Yes, the text is bigger but it took some angst to figure this out. SteamWorld Heist: Ultimate Edition Switch

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