When I first started my blog, it was a real challenge to find things to write about every day. Of course, back then, before it was a fully fledged website, I was thinking I’d just stick to writing about games, which made the completion of daily articles an even tougher prospect.

So when a small publisher reached out to me with a code for a Switch game, I jumped at the chance to cover it. Though it was far from the first game I’d ever reviewed, it was the first ever press code I’d managed to secure myself, for my own blog, and I was extremely excited about it!

That game was Theatre Tales, and it promised a puppet style retelling of Little Red Riding Hood for the youngest of players to play through. It did deliver on that at least, but the experience was incredibly short and the extra stories, which were supposed to unlock as you completed each prior one, remained locked with a ‘coming soon’ message.

This seemed odd, so I reached out to the publisher and asked when we’d see the extra content. I was told it’d soon be added and thought nothing more of it.

Until today. I thought I’d check it out again; I don’t know what made me think of it, but it did occur to me that I’d never taken a look at the extra stories in Theatre Tales.

Yet, six years later, they’re still not there. Surely, over half a decade later, the description of the game as having ‘great scenes from famous fairy tales’ (plural) and ‘make your own stories with free play mode’ (you can’t) is just an outright lie?

It really shocked me that it’d never been updated at all, and it does feel incredibly deceptive.

Anyway, there you have it. If you were to stumble upon my old reviews and were wondering if the extra content was still ‘coming soon’, I think it’s safe to say that it’s game over for Theatre Tales at this point.

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