‘Mr. Saitou’ Helps an Overworked Salaryman Discover That means & Happiness

Mr. Saitou follows a salaryman on an enthralling journey after an accident takes them from their infinite, exhausting work to a pleasant new world.

The sport follows a salaryman whose life has been spent in fixed work and additional time, leaving them feeling like their existence has no pleasure or which means in it. Working like this isn’t good in your well being, although, and earlier than lengthy, the protagonist has an accident that leaves them hospitalized. This usually provides you a variety of time to consider your self and your life. What it doesn’t usually do is put you in touch with a complete different colourful universe full of speaking crops and animals. That’s new. Effectively, possibly not fully new when you’ve spent a while participant the developer’s previous sport, Rakuen (which the Swap launch is bundled in with).

Fortunately, this sport isn’t QUITE as devastating as its predecessor, however it’s nonetheless a strong take a look at the methods we select (or maybe how we really feel compelled) to spend our lives. Nevertheless, it largely does this by contrasting the protagonist’s uninteresting, drab life with the colourful and humorous lives of the characters within the fantasy world. There’s simply a lot silliness, laughter, and sudden enjoyable available on this fantasy world you can’t assist however get swept up in all of it. It makes you WANT life to be higher. It makes you WANT to make your life like this, experiencing pleasure and love every day. It makes you’re feeling that it’s doable, even in a fantasy world that shouldn’t be doable.

Mixed with the unimaginable music (Laura Shigihara’s a superb developer and SOMEHOW a good higher composer), it actually makes you’re feeling that life might be higher than infinite work. Once more, whereas it takes place in an inconceivable world, it’s the delicate, stunning manner that it makes you’re feeling that love and pleasure are doable for you that makes it such an unimaginable expertise.



Mr. Saitou will likely be made obtainable immediately on the Nintendo eShop and Steam.

Joel Couture

Joel has been overlaying indie video games for numerous websites together with IndieGames.com, Siliconera, Gamasutra, Warp Door, CG Journal, and extra over the previous seven years, and has written book-length research on Undertale and P.T.. Joel is continually looking out for digital experiences that push the boundaries of what video games might be, and seeks to delve into the inventive course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.