{"id":113679,"date":"2020-06-01T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/check_out_liberated_the_playable_dystopian_comic_book_in_this_launch_trailer"},"modified":"2020-06-01T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T19:00:00","slug":"check-out-liberated-the-playable-dystopian-comic-book-in-this-launch-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/01\/check-out-liberated-the-playable-dystopian-comic-book-in-this-launch-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out Liberated, The Playable Dystopian Comic Book, In This Launch Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d34aee3ee490c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d34aee3ee490c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d34aee3ee490c\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/liberated\">Liberated<\/a><\/strong> is a brand new game for Switch, a graphic novel in playable form that blends a branching dystopian comic book narrative with side-scrolling, stealthy action-adventure gameplay. It&#8217;s out tomorrow and we can now reveal a brand new launch trailer released by the developer &#8211; check it out above.<\/p>\n<p>The game was announced for Switch during last December&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/12\/round_up_all_the_games_from_the_nintendo_indie_world_showcase_-_december_2019\">Indie World Showcase<\/a> and features eye-catching hand-drawn art that underlines the shades of grey in the narrative. It&#8217;s a story which involves surveillance, misinformation, fake news, technology and the weaponisation of personal data &#8211; all modern issues ripe for exploration.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke to developer Atomic Wolf <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/feature_liberated_developer_on_the_challenges_of_creating_a_truly_playable_comic_book\">back in January<\/a> about the challenges of creating a truly interactive, playable comic book, and the developers have done an excellent job of making good on their concept.<\/p>\n<p>If you like the look of the trailer above, check out our review of the game and let us know below if you&#8217;ll be picking up this rather unique addition to the Switch&#8217;s bulging software library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Liberated is a brand new game for Switch, a graphic novel in playable form that blends a branching dystopian comic book narrative with side-scrolling, stealthy action-adventure gameplay. It&#8217;s out tomorrow and we can now reveal a brand new launch trailer released by the developer &#8211; check it out above. The game was announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}