There’s a lot of visual embodiments of depression, anxiety, grief, loss, and guilt, putting you into the mindset of your protagonist and their struggles. OMOCAT's critically-acclaimed video game, OMORI, is up for physical preorder for Nintendo Switch. If you order multiple PREORDER listings, your order will not ship until the LATEST release date. It’s why hearing Omori was coming to a family-centric platform like the Switch surprised me. This listing is a PREORDER and will not ship until early July 2022. The story and themes of this game are sometimes hard to grapple with. There’s also a strong push to make your playable characters work together for stronger attacks, which as well reflects how important friendship is in this game. Different moves can be more effective when characters are feeling certain emotions, but can also put them at more risk. However, there’s a strength/weakness aspect based on the playable characters and enemy’s emotional state, very much harkening back to the emotional and mental health-focused nature of the game’s story. The battle system goes back to the hand-drawn design and is interesting because it’s very much derivative of Earthbound and RPG Maker games in its turn-based nature. The design of Faraway Town is obviously more entrenched in realism (despite being pixel graphics) while the spaces are more whimsical and colourful, and eventually more chaotic and unnerving. In a broader sense, the design draw a clear line between the stark differences of the real world known as Faraway Town, and the various dream world areas consisting of Headspace, Black Space, Black Space 2, and Further Black Space. The exploration gameplay is predominately pixel art, and is very creative in its design of the different areas. But then you’ll be faced with incredibly creepy scenes like a dark figure standing behind you or this monstrosity. Sometimes it’s a set of polaroid pictures of you and your friends having fun together.
Sometimes you’ll see a colourful reflection of you and your friends, with your colourless frame in the middle sticking out like a sore thumb. The art design of Omori jumps between a shaky hand-drawn look that can be cute or creepy depending on the context of the scene, and a simple RPG Maker pixel design. The main story revolves around you and your friends trying to find your missing buddy, but in this journey, you must confront your murky past and your deepest fears. You play as the protagonist Sunny/Omori as you traverse between reality and the dream world with your friends.
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Originally released in December 2020 for PC/Mac, the game is based on a webcomic series of the same name created by the developer. The game has earned praise for its depictions of mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, grief, and guilt, and it utilises an Emotion system in battle, which works similarly to the Weapon Triangle in the Fire Emblem series.Omori is a turn-based surreal horror RPG developed by OMOCAT. Omori follows a boy who wakes up in a "White Space", where he must confront his fears and secrets. The Indie World trailer (which starts at around 12:00 minutes in) gives us a little taste of what we can expect - pastel, colourful worlds unusual enemies and our greatest fears. While we initially reported that the game's physical edition would be shipping out on the same day, it seems that the eShop has also been updated with this June date, meaning we've got just over a month until we can dive into this sketch aesthetic turn-based RPG. And the presentation also confirmed an official release date for the game - 17th June!
OMOCAT's highly-anticipated Switch port of its horror RPG, Omori, was one of the featured games during Japan's Indie World showcase.
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