While I’m sure it’s stunningly beautiful (in a gothic kind of way) on more powerful systems, on the Switch I’m not exaggerating when I say Lost in Random looks like a game that belongs on an older-gen system. Where it all falls apart, unfortunately, is that it all looks and runs like garbage on the Switch - at least in handheld mode.
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On top of that, the game was written by Ryan North - a well-known comics writer of titles like the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Adventure Time, Dinosaur Comics, and Romeo and/or Juliet: A Chooseable-Path Adventure - which means that it’s generally got a good idea of how to keep its story moving along in a fun way for about twenty hours. You can tell the game and its world were heavily inspired by the likes of Tim Burton (and, specifically, Coraline), with cities full of grotesque-looking humans, oddly shaped buildings, and characters with fleshed-out stories. Likewise, it’s not that the game doesn’t have a richly imagined universe. (For that matter, it’s a game that rewards dodging and resource management - again, things I’m not hugely fond of, but things that, in Lost in Random’s hands, are fairly easy to do.) To be sure, you have to learn to balance hacking away with your sword, with picking up crystals that help create cards and knowing exactly when to pause and roll the dice, but for a system that you won’t find anywhere else, it’s awfully easy to figure out the basics at once. In fact, not only does it work, it works well, to the point that even someone like me, who isn’t usually overly fond of complicated mechanics, found it shockingly intuitive to pick up. You wouldn’t think all those things would work well together - in fact, you may think that they’re completely opposite - but Lost in Random knows how to make it work. The game melds together hack & slash action with rolling the dice and collecting and playing cards.
It’s not that it’s not bursting with inventiveness - it is.
If you’re going to play Lost in Random, you probably shouldn’t play it on the Switch. Also on: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X
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