Roughly 20% of the book is more objective-driven, varying from learning more about a regional god to uncovering more about a mysterious association. This type of freeform anthologizing isn’t the entirety, however. Fill up these pages enough (usually five unique keepsakes in total) to get a short cut scene with an extra quote and page-exclusive drawings that can be incorporated with everything else. Each of these taken becomes a keepsake to place however you wish - expand/shrink in size, set in an orderly fashion, or a mottled collection of wild angles and overlapping minutiae. The confection of walking, biking, and scrapbooking sim keeps to a nice rhythm: each level (or section) is dedicated two pages to place Polaroids, succinct quotes, audio recordings, and so on. Beyond being the typical means of unlocking more monologue snippets, the extra complexities go a long way in wanting to capture the perfect shot. On the more complicated side, the antique camera has a bunch of options to play around with: zoom, draw distance, color filter, and so on. The recording tape is simple enough: search for any sound within the environment and hit record near it, concomitantly feeling it through the DualSense of all the haptic feedback variations, the coolest one is feeling the needle scratch along a vinyl’s surface. Permission to play with her accoutrements comes after leaving the house. It captures a similar design premise to The Gliding in Sable, in that every action implicitly channels into your main goal. All of these primary and auxiliary details reinforce how important each page is in the grand scheme. Similar to concentric circles, each of these contextual elements reminds you of what’s at stake: her personal curiosity, familial sacrifices, the village’s approval of this journey, and the preservation for the future to dissect and appreciate. Although the protagonist (voiced by Maureen Adelson) and her mom (voiced by Phyllis Gooden) have tranquil temperaments, there’s an aquifer of passionate emotion between them and this unique scenario.īefore even fiddling with your vintage recorder and camera, these background dynamics have already layered so much to your place within this world. There’s something so poignant about being a “memory martyr,” of losing a small part of yourself, that’s so effectively communicated by this too. Not only do interactable items have a story to tell, they’re also a potential sacrifice that your mother’s willing to lose. This strange affliction can be repelled with a special pendant however, that requires someone offering past memories of their own. Strolling outside the town’s limits comes with potentially losing your mind. What narrative designers Jane Tan, Kevin Sullivan, & Megan Hutchinson pair with this opening is an important sacrifice. Plop a character in their room, have some internal monologue for every important doodad in arm’s reach, and you have an establishing scene.
The walking sim template of exploring an enclosed space & interacting with various trinkets for development is quite basic and effective. This additional context, framing everything as an interactive epistolary tale, is further expanded by the seemingly-typical opening. Its subtitle, “ A letter to the future ,” is shown with an unknown man rifling through her belongings and opening the scrapbook. Equipped with the clothes on her back, a bicycle, and the recording equipment she can carry, she leaves her secluded homestead behind.īut that chronological beginning isn’t the actual start of SEASON. Her goal is simple: to record, photograph, sketch, and write in her handy-dandy scrapbook for future generations to craft a time capsule/travelogue for this season. Now, the background, those little things, are the core to this team’s serene sophomore outing and it speaks louder than any on-air personality that such a creative heel-turn feels more consistently engaging.Ī new prophecy has been foretold: the end of the current “season” is nigh! The importance of these supposedly-cataclysmic epochs, this seasonal renewal process, isn’t initially clear, but it compels the protagonist to venture from the quaint Caro Village and into the vast wilderness. Hell, the e-sports announcer was vital in delineating it from the competition upon its E3 reveal. In Scavengers Studio’s first outing, Darwin Project, such sounds might serve as mere background to intense Battle Royale bouts being recorded for televised entertainment. Rusting metal support struts creaking against a strong gust of wind. An old-timey radio jingle played on a loop. By Lee Mehr, posted on 26 January 2023 / 2,282 Views
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