L.A. Noire on Switch is an attempt to teach an old dog new tricks. It’s the video game equivalent of Steve Buscemi’s “how do you do, fellow kids” - and without most of the new additions specifically for Nintendo Switch, perhaps it would have been just fine.
A few little tweaks here and there are relatively welcome, of course. In interrogations, the choices were previously “Truth, Doubt, Lie” - and they rarely corresponded to the actor’s following dialogue, often resulting in Detective Cole Phelps yelling at children and innocent witnesses just because they looked a bit shifty. In the Switch version, the options have been changed to, respectively, “Good Cop, Bad Cop, Accuse”, which more closely follows Cole’s reaction, albeit with an implication that you can swing between…
