Yet, we should always learn from the legacy of the past and look tathow it can inform our future. Not a perfect system, by any means – tons of piracy sunk a lot of good companies and drove others into the arms of larger one. With most games, the majority of the game and options were locked behind an activation code, but once you purchased that code, the game was yours – no microtransactions, no loot boxes, no DLC.
#Crimsonland switch for free
You could download the full game for free and share it with your friends…hence, the name. (For all you younguns, let this “teacher of wisdom” spit some truth about shareware: this was my generations “freemium” game. This is our review of Crimsonland for the Nintendo Switch. Released as a “shareware” title in 2003, Crimsonland found success in it’s simple, yet bloody formula: point, shoot, kill, upgrade, and survive! It was upon this foundation that, in 2014, Crimsonland was remastered for digital consumption, ultimately landing on the Xbox One in 2015 and, just a few days ago, on the Switch.
While it’s release on the Nintendo Switch is new, Crimsonland has been around for a while. I guess it is really truth what “the author of wisdom” wrote in the biblical book of Ecclesiastes: “There is nothing new under the sun.” But that isn’t always a bad thing. In gaming we have seen this in the form of countless video game remakes – some for better… some for not-so-better.
Isn’t it funny how some things repeat themselves? I mean, JNCO Jeans were the bellbottom’s second act in the 90s, mullets returned on the heads of angsty, early-aughts scream-o bands, and the pygmy-pickup itself, the legendary El Camino, was recently reborn in the Chevy SSR.