{"id":26564,"date":"2026-03-02T00:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T00:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=26564"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:01:38","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:01:38","slug":"the-prisoning-fletchers-quest-switch-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/02\/the-prisoning-fletchers-quest-switch-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"The Prisoning: Fletcher’s Quest (Switch, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Fletcher is a game developer who is running on hard times and goes to see a psychiatrist about it.\u00a0 The psychiatrist puts him under hypnosis and now he must escape his own mind.\u00a0 You\u2019ll play as him in this 2D Metroidvania style platform adventure featuring off the wall humor and challenge.\u00a0 Probably the weirdest thing about the game is that it\u2019s published by Acclaim!\u00a0 Huh, I guess they\u2019re back!\u00a0 Anyway, the game is available on Switch and PC, but reviewed on Switch here.<\/p>\n

When you start the game, you\u2019re only naked and can just jump.\u00a0 After running around a bit, you\u2019ll find clothes and a pistol and then the game really begins.\u00a0 Similar to other games like this, you\u2019ll run into areas where you can\u2019t go past, and must backtrack and find items and skills so you can move forward.\u00a0 Each area is just a single screen so every room is like a mini-platform challenge where you must shoot and avoid enemies and obstacles.\u00a0 There is a lot of silly off the wall humor taking stabs at the video game industry.\u00a0 A lot of it is self referential and went over my head, but I did get a few things like a poke at WayForward (the masters of this kind of game).<\/p>\n

Unfortunately I just couldn\u2019t get into this one.\u00a0 I did like the retro graphics and catchy music, but the challenge was just too much.\u00a0 You only get two hits to start, and your gun can only fire one bullet at a time in the beginning, which makes this one probably harder at the start than at the end.\u00a0 It just felt like an obstacle course gauntlet to get to the next save point rather than a fun place to explore.\u00a0 I\u2019ve just played better Metroidvanias out there.<\/p>\n

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The Prisoning: Fletcher\u2019s Quest is rated M for Mature with ESRB descriptor of Crude Humor, Nudity, and Use of Drugs.\u00a0 You shoot silly enemies with a pistol and they disappear when defeated, so there\u2019s violence, too.\u00a0 You start the game naked but you really don\u2019t see anything.\u00a0 It\u2019s just like Rampage.\u00a0 The humor is just in the text only, and all of this plus the high challenge level make it a better fit for older gamers only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fletcher is a game developer who is running on hard times and goes to see a psychiatrist about it.\u00a0 The psychiatrist puts him under hypnosis and now he must escape his own mind.\u00a0 You\u2019ll play as him in this 2D Metroidvania style platform adventure featuring off the wall humor and challenge.\u00a0 Probably the weirdest thing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26564"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26566,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26564\/revisions\/26566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}