Review: Black Future '88 (Nintendo Switch)

Review by Matt S.

It's not always fair when a video game - or any other art work, for that matter - belongs to a genre that has become so saturated that it's hard to muster up enthusiasm for it. It's often not the game's fault, in isolation, and many of the best are produced right at the tail end before people get thoroughly sick of them. The AAA-industry has gone through a number of those - think about the MMO, then the FPS. Now it's the open world. Those are the well-known trends that get done to death. But indies have their own little trends too, and Black Future '88 is the perfect example of this. This is a game I just could not muster any level of interest in, but it's not so much the game itself. I'm just thoroughly sick of the indie roguelike. 

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