'Tintin Reporter: Cigars Of The Pharaoh' Finally Adventures Onto Switch This October

Love all the comics and the 80s cartoon, and to be fair I liked the film and was annoyed that they cancelled the rest of them.
Need more videos of game play, they show driving and flying but what do you actually do on it?
Also what's with the "reporter" underlying title?

Eh... One of the game shop in my country Indonesia already provided the PS5 version so I will get the PS5 version instead.
The game published by Microids, I think it will have worse performance on Switch version (30 FPS and below).

Uhmmm... I hope it's a decent game, but I won't have my hopes high.

This IP has gotten so old. The comics never caught my interest, with all the books of boring text in each bubble, and how righteous it always is. I do have fond memories of the cartoons though.

Reading that they made a game that doesn't run properly on other consoles and they're now releasing on Switch, just sounds like a bad joke. But let's first wait and see what gives ... everybody gets a second chance.

@Yalloo

... Damn, sounds like you've had quite a rough tuesday, huh?

@Maubari You're right. I've edited my comment. Reading it sounded like it was written by somebody who was very frustrated, which is not the case!

I love storybook/comic/cartoon 2D Ligne Claire Tintin. CGI 3D movie Tintin is just okay.

Wish they’d make a new game and/or series with the former art style. It’s much more aesthetically pleasing and retains more of Tintin’s charm imo.

If only it came out on the 15th/16th.

This game shouldn't be allowed to be released. It's a sad excuse for a game

It’s gonna be terrible but I would like to give it a go because of sheer fanboyism.

What's with Microids? This is at least the third or fourth project they've been involved with recently, which has released in a disastrous state and had to be reworked.

Based on what I've seen with Joe and Mac (and heard about XIII), they do make things right eventually (with major patches and content additions), but it's not healthy to keep doing this!

Tintin Reporter?

What a brainlessly stupid title. I love Tintin but I don’t believe there has ever been a good Tintin game.

@MitchK
Tintin is a reporter according to their franchise.

It’s fun that the title is Tintin Reporter, and one of the definitions of the French word Reporter means to push back (like a deadline) - almost as if Microids decided to delay the game in a meeting and forgot to change the working title in the excel document.

Continuing the tradition of Tintin games never being very good, which is a shame.

Tintin is one of my favorite things ever, sucks that the games always underwhelm

I think it's silly how little information we have on NL about this game, given that it's been out over a year. Nothing in this article even hints at the gameplay. Just a hint? Come on. I had to Google for reviews on other sites to even understand what kind of game this is.

It's a combination of puzzles, investigation, action with QTEs, and it's a short 10 hour adventure. More emphasis on the action with Tintin in 3rd person and Snowy in 1st person. It's faithful to the comic, so if you read it you already know the story. As to why they used a 3D style, they thought a realistic immersive world was more appropriate for an adventure game. Additionally, the Eurogamer article quotes the producer: "The only person who knows how to make Tintin in 2D is Hergé".

@cwong15 which is a ridiculous cop-out of course. This is 2024, the industry is filled with people who are experts at making 3D look like beautiful 2D animation. Guilty Gear is gobsmacking. That Shin-Chan game does a wonderful job on a character whose proportions don't make sense from a 3D perspective. And just generally, new cell shaded anime games are released every month, each with tighter visual execution than the last. Even indie developers have cracked the Tintin style of cell shading with Sable and Rollerdrome. And let's not forget that most of Microids' catalogue is made up of truly C-tier games. The true version of their statement is "we don't know how to make Tintin 2D", or more accurately, "we're too cheap to make the effort to figure out how to make Tintin 2D".