13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim on Switch is one hell of a good port

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A sign of a good piece of entertainment, whether it’s a movie, a tv show, an album, or a video game, is how long it sticks in your mind after you’re done experiencing that very first time. I’m sure we all have films and songs we love that manage to sneak their way into your thoughts even when you’re not trying to reminisce. For me, Alanis Morissette’s “Uninvited” will pop into my head at random, putting a stop to whatever it is I’m doing at the moment so I can go find her live performance of it on YouTube. With movies, I can never seem to get The Florida Project out of my brain. For games, well…there are a lot of them that sneak in from time to time. But for the past two years, it’s mainly been one game that’s been camping out on my frontal lobe: 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim. That’s been particularly true for the past few days as I’ve been giving the 13 Sentinels Switch port a whirl.

Originally released for the PlayStation 4, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim is a beautiful, gripping sci-fi mystery set across a variety of different time periods in Japan. The game follows 13 characters through a sprawling narrative that delves into the past and future as they attempt to thwart a kaiju attack while learning the truth behind everything that is happening in their world. Following a lengthy tutorial that introduces most of the central cast and explains how the action works in the real-time battles work, players a given a certain level of freedom on how to proceed through the game. You can dive into the Remembrance half of the title, learning about the characters and their circumstances. Or you can get straight into the action with the Destruction half of the game, which pits you against a ceaseless army of kaiju invaders.

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