{"id":11687,"date":"2018-01-30T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/investigate_some_stranger_things_as_the_darkside_detective_heads_to_switch"},"modified":"2018-01-30T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T17:30:00","slug":"investigate-some-stranger-things-as-the-darkside-detective-heads-to-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/30\/investigate-some-stranger-things-as-the-darkside-detective-heads-to-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigate Some Stranger Things As The Darkside Detective Heads To Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news6.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/investigate_some_stranger_things_as_the_darkside_detective_heads_to_switch\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/investigate_some_stranger_things_as_the_darkside_detective_heads_to_switch\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news6.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/thimbleweed_park\"><strong>Thimbleweed Park<\/strong><\/a> proved anything, it&#8217;s that there&#8217;s always going to be a place for point-and-click adventure games on Nintendo Switch &#8211; especially when they&#8217;re heavy in black humour and suitably retro in appearance. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/darkside_detective\"><strong>The Darkside Detective<\/strong><\/a>, which is slated for release on 7th February, fits that role to a tee with its six episodic investigations into the paranormal.<\/p>\n<p>With a soundtrack by Ben Prunty (he of FTL fame) pounding &#8217;80s synth in the background and a town full of peculiar and supernatural goings-on, there&#8217;s a lovely Stranger Things vibe. And with everything from zombies to the ghosts of some familiar faces (including HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe) to meet, there&#8217;s plenty of scope for some blacker than black humour.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Darkside Detective will eminate from the ether on 7th February on the Switch eShop. Will its pixel art wares charm you into a digital possession? Sound off in the comments below&#8230; if you dare (*evil laugh*)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the likes of Thimbleweed Park proved anything, it&#8217;s that there&#8217;s always going to be a place for point-and-click adventure games on Nintendo Switch &#8211; especially when they&#8217;re heavy in black humour and suitably retro in appearance. The Darkside Detective, which is slated for release on 7th February, fits that role to a tee with [&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-11687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687","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=11687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}