There is none of the lateral-thinking cruelty that possessed the heads of those at LucasArts, in the nineties, who enjoyed nothing more than making a simmering broth out of your brain. But there is a streak of complexity to some of the puzzles here that hark back to the adventure games of old. The art style favours the combustible colours of Firewatch (Cissy Jones, who voiced Delilah in that game, plays Norah), and the deeds of its characters, like those of Gone Home, are gleaned from sifting the environments for signs of passage. Delgado, who also co-founded the studio behind the game, Out of the Blue, is clearly enamoured of modern adventure games. Whether you find your sanity descending or rising will depend on your taste for tough puzzles. The director, Tatiana Delgado, has said that the game “isn’t a descent into madness but a rise to sanity.” This is a lighter affair, far more concerned with Norah and Harry and love, while hardly a logical compound, makes for a warmer-though not a drier-tale. The Lovecraft plot usually hinges on the terror of the plotless-the fear that manmade narratives, with their neat resolutions and morals, may not govern the stars.
“That’s bats!” Norah says, after reading the machine’s manual, and for anyone who would apply that sentiment to Lovecraft’s work, rest assured: Call of the Sea has none of the doom and clamminess that clings to his stories. Tillinghast was the protagonist of Lovecraft’s short story “From Beyond,” who wrangled the power of radio waves to glimpse another realm of existence. By the time they find a projector-like contraption, made by a certain Crawford Tillinghast, they will likely be reduced to pleased and jabbering puddles. Alien-looking formations of stone? Check. Lovecraft will already be sniffing the air. What a sweetheart! The trouble is, when a whispering black ooze bleeds from the walls of a nearby well, Norah is shown visions of her hands, newly webbed and squamous, as she glides beneath the waves, and we wonder if it is an ailment, or something else. As we learn, by hoovering up photos, diary scraps, and other clues strewn amidst the clutter, Harry embarked on an expedition looking for a cure for her mysterious ailment. It isn’t long before she locates Harry’s camp, which has rudely repurposed a Polynesian ruin. This being a first-person adventure, the natural sway of Norah’s viewpoint adds to the swelter of the early scenes, and the atmosphere is one of prickling unease. You would forgive her for needing to sit down-or to wake up-at any moment. The island is a fine sight from afar (indeed, it caught my eye during an Xbox showcase months ago), but, as Norah wades ashore and finds it sugared with creamy sand, and, soon after, drifts into a jungle as bright as lime jelly, the place starts to bear a trace of the sickly and the surreal. Only, as we press on in search of Norah’s lost love, we begin to question which is which. It’s a creepy image, and its mixture of shadows and warmth abounds elsewhere. Arriving at her destination, she pulls on a pair of fetching leather gloves, covering the dark blotches running up her hands and wrists. It is the nineteen-thirties, and she has hitched a ride on a ship and sailed over the Pacific, to a remote and nameless isle, in search of Harry, her husband-or, as she calls him, her “Old Pal.” Norah’s mood, like her near-constant narration, is infused with that brand of breezy cheer that is often worn like armour. Perhaps after the initial release, the game will be ported to the Nintendo Switch.The heroine of Call of the Sea, Norah Everhart, begins the game in a cabin, with pale daylight flooding through a porthole. The game has no official release date yet, but on Steam, it says the release date is coming soon.
Call of the Sea Switch: Will Call of the Sea Come Out for Nintendo Switch?Ĭall of the Sea is not currently announced to release on the Nintendo Switch, but it is possible that could change in the future.
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Purchasing the game for Xbox One will also include the game for Xbox Series X for free. However, it will also be available on Xbox one and PC. Stay tuned for more! #CallOfTheSea - Out of the Blue Games May 7, 2020Ĭall of the Sea is one of the games that has been announced as optimized for the Xbox Series X. We are excited to finally share our first game, Call of the Sea! ? The fantastical adventure game is the first by Out of the Blue Games and focuses on a woman in the 1930s searching for her missing husband in the South Pacific. Call of the Sea is a first person adventure puzzle game coming to the Xbox Series X and the Xbox Game Pass.
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