I’ve been thinking a lot about Panic!/ (Switch! in Japan) for the Sega CD lately. It’s not a game I replay very often, but I really like it! A lot of people tend to criticize the game for being “barely a game,” mostly because it consists of hitting different buttons that cause different one-off jokes to happen. Some of the buttons send you to different rooms in the game, so in that sense, it’s a little bit like a gag-filled Choose Your Own Adventure, which absolutely qualifies as a game by my standards.
Anyway, some of the gags work and some don’t, but I think there’s a lot of value in the art as well as the writing. The last time I played through Panic! I took a bunch of screenshots of some of my favorite parts, so here they are!
