![]() ![]() The Nintendo Switch is a pretty portable console, meaning that you can easily take these games wherever you’d go. That’s where digital board games come into play! There are a bunch of different digital board games out on various platforms, but we are here to talk about digital board games on Nintendo Switch. However, tabletop games do take up a lot of space in your home and it’s often hard to arrange enough people over to play with you, physically, at your house. Joseph acts as though his heartbreak is completely unique and nobody else could possibly understand his pain, when his own wife has a far more tragic backstory, in my opinion.Back before the time of video games on Nintendo Switch and other platforms, there were these things called board games! Tabletop board games are always a really fun time when all of your friends can come around to your house to play a game together. But maybe that's because I so badly don't want that to be my own story. ![]() it's presented as a happy ending, but it feels more like a futile and belated effort to "make things right.” I was left feeling pity and anger more than relief. At the conclusion of the game, we learn that Joseph has moved with Rachel back to his childhood home. ![]() We learn that he found a passion, went to school to pursue it, but then couldn't find a job in his field. Joseph spends his life trying not to do what people expect him to, and I really related to that struggle. He spent years refusing to acknowledge something he understood was valuable, and now regrets his behavior, but at the same time doesn't seem to take accountability for it. As he tells Rachel these memories, there's not much that is redeeming for Joseph. He is wallowing in a combination of grief and self-pity. Speaking of which, hats off to Rachel - she is much more patient than I probably would be. ![]() This is when the dialogue seems the least realistic, because of course Rachel would already know what’s going on. After a wonderful opening dialogue and graceful hint-dropping, the subtlety of the exact situation is undermined when the same events are just explicitly stated later. As with most games in this genre, my biggest complaint is over-explaining to the player with summary "in case you didn't figure this out on your own" dialogue. ![]()
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