Adventure game To Hell With the Ugly out on Switch this month
Posted on May 3, 2023 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch eShop
Arte and La Poule Noire announced today that To Hell With the Ugly is releasing on Switch this month. It will be available digitally on May 30, 2023.
To Hell With the Ugly is an adventure game and film noir adaptation of the novel by Boris Vian in which players take on the role of Rock Bailey, “a gorgeous yet shallow young man, who must investigate and fight his way to freedom after being kidnapped.” Turn-based combat and investigation segments are included.
Further details can be found in the following overview:
Adapted from the novel by Boris Vian, To Hell With the Ugly is an adventure game that follows the story of Rock Bailey, a young man whose only redeeming quality is his remarkably handsome looks. When he is mysteriously kidnapped and tortured outside a jazz club, he sets out to uncover the truth behind his abduction, with turn-based fights and investigations along the way.
Players must explore LA’s darkest corners, gather clues by interviewing locals and interact with the environment. But sometimes, the only way to get the information they need is through fist fights, involving timing and precision.
To Hell With the Ugly is the very first of Boris Vian’s novels to be adapted into a video game. Set in the 1950s, the game will let the player discover the streets of a fantasized Los Angeles, where Boris Vian never even set foot when he wrote the book. La Poule Noire chose to use a semi-realistic style for their characters in order to magnify certain character traits, in a striking depiction of the American city with vibrant and intense colors.
Investigation, street fights, car chases: all the ingredients are combined to recreate Boris Vian’s fantasy vision of Los Angeles.
Provocative and burlesque, To Hell With the Ugly is a parody of American noir novels and navigates between detective fiction and anticipation. It denounces the cult of appearances through its gorgeous looking hero and a worrying clinic with eugenicist practices.
Check out a trailer for the game below.
To Hell With the Ugly will be sold on the Switch eShop for $19.99.
