Split Fiction - Nintendo Switch 2 Game

I have already heard of parents yelling at thier kids for losing the physical game, and buying a second copy only to find out that its only sold as a code in a box, there has never been a physical release. The game is great, its got coop, parents can play with kids for hours, its on all platforms, and its just awesome to have a genre of games that works like this one does. BUT this is just the code in a box for downloading the game. They never put this game on an actual cartridge for Nintendo Switch 2, which is what I was expecting to purchase because the front of the package doesnt have the awefule white band warning that it could be a key-card game. There is all kinds of hate about key-card games, which dont have any game data on the cartridge, and cause you to download the game from Nintendo servers and store it on your switch just like a downlaoded game. The packaging for key-card games has huge 1-inch tall warning labels spanning across the entire the bottom front of the case/box, but at least those games are often $10-20 cheaper on average than full MSRP games price regularly $59.99-$79.99, and key-card game cartridges can be resold after playing letting the next owner enter the key-card code online and downlaod the game, locking out the original owner from playing, but acting closer to owning the full game on cartridge. than a straight up one time use game code. Meanwhile, this game is a code in a box at full MSRP. It has no resale value, no physical kart for ownership, and the biggest problem: nowhere near the visual warning on the packaging. Is it on there? Yes, in text over the ESRB rating. Compare that to the insaely alrge waring on the Key-Card game cases, and you can see the frustration on paying more for less, you feel duped. For the price I paid, better games have been made a key-card game for less. The price should have been even lower, and the code in a box should have as big a label, if not bigger than what key-card games get.

The game's great! You do need two people to play, but we knew that going in. The thing that sucks is that when you open the box there's no game cartridge. Theres a download code, but what the point of buying a physical game if you don't get a physical game. I could have just bought the card that has a game code. There's even a spot in the box for the game card, it's just not there. Just a thing I'm not loving.