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

Mr. Saitou follows a salaryman on a captivating journey after an accident takes them from their infinite, 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 which 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 provides you numerous time to consider your self and your life. What it doesn’t usually do is put you involved with an entire different colourful universe crammed with speaking crops and animals. That’s new. Effectively, perhaps not totally new should you’ve spent a while participant the developer’s previous sport, Rakuen (which the Change launch is bundled in with).

Fortunately, this sport 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 by 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 surprising enjoyable available on this fantasy world that you may’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 attainable, even in a fantasy world that shouldn’t be attainable.

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



Mr. Saitou can 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 may be, and seeks to delve into the inventive course of, meanings, and emotion labor that goes into the work of artists worldwide.