‘Mr. Saitou’ Helps an Overworked Salaryman Find Meaning & Happiness

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

The sport follows a salaryman whose life has been spent in fixed work and extra time, leaving them feeling like their existence has no pleasure or that 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 offers 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 stuffed with speaking crops and animals. That’s new. Well, possibly not solely new in case you’ve spent a while participant the developer’s previous sport, Rakuen (which the Switch launch is bundled in with).

Thankfully, 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. However, it largely does this by way of 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 which 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 potential, even in a fantasy world that shouldn’t be potential.

Combined with the unbelievable music (Laura Shigihara’s an glorious developer and SOMEHOW an even higher composer), it actually makes you’re feeling that life could be higher than countless work. Again, whereas it takes place in an not possible world, it’s the delicate, lovely means that it makes you’re feeling that love and pleasure are potential for you that makes it such an unbelievable expertise.



Mr. Saitou might be made obtainable right now 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 Magazine, 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 could be, and seeks to delve into the artistic course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.