Unforeseen Incidents Switch Review: An Infectious Adventure Game
The Nintendo Switch is certainly a better system for ports than the ill-fated Wii U. The platform is receiving re-releases of everything from modern day titles through to classics like Knights of the Old Republic, as publishers look to make use of the Switch's popularity and unique place as a handheld-to-home-console hybrid. One recent game that has chosen to find another home on the Switch is Unforeseen Incidents from Backwoods Entertainment.
Unforeseen Incidents takes the form of a traditional adventure game, with the player needing to collect items from around the world to solve a variety of logic puzzles in order to progress. Within the game world, a deadly disease has been spreading across the USA, and it falls upon an unsuspecting handyman to try and find a way to curb its growth. Along the way, they will uncover the shocking truth of the disease's origin.
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Immediately Unforeseen Incidents grabs the player's attention thanks to its distinctive art style. Its character models and locations are unique and hand-painted, leaving the game feeling like a moving, talking comic book. It sets a unique tone to the whole experience, and brings in charm alongside its old-fashioned point and click adventure gameplay; it's what your brain thought Broken Sword looked like twenty years ago.
Unforeseen Incidents leans heavily into the adventure genre, with the player exploring static locales and grabbing every item they can to try and combine them when the puzzle pieces start to fall together. Even the characters match the feel of traditional adventure games, with witty rapports and a light-hearted main character monologue breaking the silence. These monologue moments are a
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