Shuten Order on Nintendo Switch 2 drags you into a genre-twisting maze where belief curdles into obsession and every second counts. Your journey begins the instant you’re revived, memory wiped clean, with only four fleeting days to expose your murderer. This cult-driven nation teeters on collapse, and the Switch 2’s enhanced hardware makes its shifting gameplay styles hit harder than ever: one moment you’re piecing together clues like a hardboiled detective, the next you’re creeping through stealth-horror corridors, cracking escape-room puzzles, or stumbling into tragic romance. Each ministry confronts you with warped truths, demanding sacrifice and snap decisions that shape your fate. Imagine Danganronpa colliding with Disco Elysium, then spiralling through Silent Hill, yet even that mash-up barely hints at the madness Shuten Order unleashes on Nintendo’s new console.

Shuten Order Review Pros

• Awesome graphics. 
• 26.8GB download size. 
• Japanese voice with English subtitles.
• Your save from the Nintendo Switch version carries over, as do all your settings.
• 54 save slots, where 53 are manual, and the other one is the autosave spot. 
• Text settings – display speed, display speed during autoplay sliders, along with text skip (all/already read). 
• Audio setting sliders – master volume, BGM, and sound effects sliders. Has a ducking mode that can be toggled to lower the BGM when the voice is playing. 
• Vibration can be turned on and off.
• Better performance than the Nintendo Switch version overall, and it pops a lot more.
• Stylish game from the colourful menus to the graphics and art style. 
• The cutscenes are a mix of Anime show style, in-game interactions, and in-game sequences. 
• Adventure gameplay. 
• Tutorials are displayed in many forms, from pop-ups to a manual to settings pages. You get so much feedback before doing anything, you never really feel out of the loop. 
• The game has a lot of interactions and conversations; you can have it so you click one by one as it goes, you can set it to autoplay, skip it entirely, or speed it up. 
• Excellent soundtrack. 
• Save and load when you want from the pause menu. 
• Gameplay timer in the pause menu. 
• Simple controls amd you can bring them up in the menu. 
• The game plays out predominantly on a 2D scene, so like a room or a location, a place, etc, and you move a cursor around and interact with it. Other ways to play are that you are the character in 3D, and you can run around the areas and interact as usual. 
• Shiny sparkles show interactive elements within a setting. 
• I like the way any characters in the location look; they look almost like stickers placed in a scene. 
• The cursor will give pop-up text to say what you will do, so it could be check, read, or even open and close. 
• A Game that is perfect for handheld with headphones on for maximum immersion. 
• The areas you are in are big enough that you can scroll around and realise how big it is. 
• On the screen, the HUD will always show your current objective. 
• A fantastic group of characters who you grow to love and hate in equal measure. 
• The game has so much style and visual impact. 
• When you do actually perform proper interactions and gameplay, it’s satisfying as it’s quite impactful, really. 
• Multiple-choice encounters shape the story and are very common in the game. 
• Guess the culprit is a cool mechanic where you click into each accused party and recap their story and behaviour before choosing. It then lets you carry on and accuse them, but not before dropping loads of story, making you feel unsure about everything. 

Shuten Order Review Cons

• You cannot remap the controls. 
• No accessibility settings, things like Colourblind, dyslexia font, text size, etc. 
• It’s a Japanese voice only. 
• Games like this are slow starters as they build the story and set you up; it is no different here. 
• It is very easy to miss something important; you can go through the text log, but it’s hardly ideal. 
• All the interactive sparkles are fine, but they don’t disappear when you’ve used them, and they all look the same, so it can get a bit much. 

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Developer: Neilo

Publisher: Spike Chunsoft

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