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

Mr. Saitou follows a salaryman on an enthralling journey after an accident takes them from their limitless, 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 that means in it. Working like this isn’t good on your well being, although, and earlier than lengthy, the protagonist has an accident that leaves them hospitalized. This usually offers you numerous time to consider your self and your life. What it doesn’t usually do is put you involved with a complete different colourful universe stuffed with speaking crops and animals. That’s new. Nicely, perhaps not totally new for those who’ve spent a while participant the developer’s previous recreation, Rakuen (which the Swap launch is bundled in with).

Fortunately, this recreation isn’t QUITE as devastating as its predecessor, however it’s nonetheless a strong have a look at the methods we select (or maybe how we really feel pressured) to spend our lives. Nonetheless, it largely does this via contrasting the protagonist’s boring, 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 which you could’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 are feeling that it’s attainable, even in a fantasy world that shouldn’t be attainable.

Mixed with the unimaginable music (Laura Shigihara’s a wonderful developer and SOMEHOW an excellent higher composer), it actually makes you are feeling that life might be higher than limitless work. Once more, whereas it takes place in an not possible world, it’s the refined, lovely approach that it makes you are feeling that love and pleasure are attainable for you that makes it such an unimaginable expertise.



Mr. Saitou shall be made obtainable as we speak on the Nintendo eShop and Steam.

Joel Couture

Joel has been masking indie video games for varied 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 consistently 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.