

Noire is similar to that of other crime-based adventure and third-person action games. The post-war setting is the backdrop for plot elements that reference history and detective films of the time, such as corruption and veteran trauma, accompanied by a classical jazz soundtrack. The game uses a distinctive coloring style, as well as including the choice of a grayscale filter, in homage to traditional film noir. As the title suggests, the game draws heavily from both plot and aesthetic elements of film noir - stylistic films from the 1940s and 1950s that shared similar visual styles and themes including crime, sex, and moral ambiguity, often shot in black-and-white with high-contrast lighting and dark shadows.

Noire is set in a near-perfectly recreated 8 square miles of Los Angeles circa 1947. Because this exceeds the available internal storage on the console, the eShop version of the game must be installed to a microSD card (sold separately) that is inserted prior beginning the download.L.A. "The Nintendo eShop digital version of LA Noire, including all bug fixes and improvements, requires 29GB of available storage. "This file can be downloaded to either the Nintendo Switch console's internal storage or a microSD card (sold separately). "If using the physical cartridge version of LA Noire, the game will require a 14GB digital download containing required gameplay data as well as general bug fixes and improvements," Rockstar stated. The Switch comes with a base 32GB of onboard storage, but Nintendo states that you need approximately 6.2GB reserved for use by the system itself. It's so big, in fact, you need to buy a separate microSD card to install it on. So how about the digital version? It weighs in at 29GB, which is huge for a Nintendo Switch game. This file is "required", and contains gameplay data as well as the normal day-one patch fixes, developer Rockstar has revealed. Meanwhile, you can't play LA Noire's Nintendo Switch game cartridge until you've also downloaded a 14GB digital download file. The download version of LA Noire on Switch doesn't fit on a Switch, which means you have to buy a microSD card to play it.
