My review of Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories for Switch went live today on Nintendo Life — you can check it out at https://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/nintendo-switch/disaster_report_4_summer_memories. As always, if you have a moment to give it a click and show there's a "market" for coverage of lesser-known games on more mainstream sites, please do so!
One interesting thing came up, looking at the comments. (I know, I know, don't) A couple of people mentioned Push Square's review of the game, which rated it 3/10, seemingly primarily on the grounds that there is the option to act like a reprehensible asshole at numerous points throughout the game.
Thing is; that's sort of the point of Disaster Report 4: it's a game about the human response to a crisis, and how some people approach a situation like that keen to help everyone, while others, regrettably, take the opportunity to let loose and act like the asshole they've always wanted to be. Or perhaps they just see an opportunity to see what it's like to be a complete shit; everyone else is already suffering, after all; it can't hurt, can it?
That's not a reason to mark the game down, though, in my eyes. I find this side of Disaster Report 4 fascinating. You most certainly come into contact with more than your fair share of assholes over the course of the game's main narrative, so it's fitting that you have the option to be one too. I didn't in my playthrough, because I find it legitimately difficult to play a game with moral choices as a "bad" person, and some of the options you get in Disaster Report 4 are really bad. But I appreciate the option being there.
In fact, I'm sorely tempted to do a playthrough on video where I simply attempt to be the biggest, most reprehensible asshole there ever was to walk the streets after a major earthquake. I'm genuinely curious to see what effect it has on the story — if any.
If there's any interest in that, let me know! It's not as if I'm short of time right now, and Warriors Wednesday is coming to a (perhaps temporary) close this week, so…
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