The way you interact can be quite simple but what you’ll be doing is far from it. Each interaction will have at least two ways you can deal with it, in the case of the whale there is actually more than two – you can either leave through the fountain with or without flotation devices as well as waiting with the nymphs.īurly Men at Sea isn’t just a visual novel, there are point and click elements throughout that can have consequences on a story, doing the wrong thing in a situation can end a playthrough prematurely. These choices and subsequent branching paths are the main way you’ll be discovering stories and guiding the burly men. Inside you are greeted by three ghostly nymphs that inform you the whale will take you to the promised land if you sit and wait with them, or if you are ‘unwilling’ you can leave through the fountain of the faithless. Suddenly a giant whale appears and swallows the men and their boat. If anything this game champions the fact that simplicity can be played to as a strength rather than a weakness, the ease of use, straightforward gameplay and appealing look allow you to focus on what is most important, the stories held within, without being distracted by it all looking or feeling a bit janky.Ī session always starts the same you leave the village by getting the brothers to sail away on their boat. It first struck me when I went to the blacksmiths house and the sound of his hammer hitting the anvil was clearly somebody doing the equivalent of beat boxing. Sound is a similar story, most of the effects are done by a person making sounds with their mouth. Yes the fires aren’t the most realistic but the art style makes them look great. The best example for simple yet effective design are the fires you’ll see throughout the game, they’re literally a few coloured shapes layered on top of each other that have an animation where they shake and move up and down.
The art style and graphics are on the simpler side. The only downside is I find the Switch quite difficult to hold when playing with touchscreen, it’s just quite an awkward system to deal with, but your mileage may vary. I mainly used the touchscreen, it just makes sense for a game like this, especially since it was released on mobile. On the Switch there are a couple of ways you can play, either by using the touchscreen to swipe, tap and drag your way through or with one joy-con where you can point at the screen to achieve the same results – there are also gyroscope features available. They are usually in the centre of the screen with the edges blanked out, you have to choose a direction either left or right (more often right, probably because that’s the way we read) and pull the screen to reveal more of your surroundings. This is where we step in, our aim is to guide the three brothers through encounters to find and complete all of the stories available in the game.Ĭontrolling the brothers is easy and effective. The only villager that’s of any help is the enigmatic coffee shop owner (who also has a beard much like the brothers) who tells them the map is blank because it’s the type where you fill it by looking for and encountering your own adventures. Intrigued by their discovery they head into their village, which is on a remote island, and speak to the inhabitants to find out more. One day they find a bottle with a mysterious map inside it which has no directions or places of interest on it. The basic premise of this adventure is that there are three brothers: Hasty Beard, Steady Bread and Brave Beard (a bit like Top Gun, they’re named after their core personalities) who are fisherman. Nothing new has been added to the game but this version will have HD Rumble, motion controls and the ability to use either touch screen or joy cons as controllers. Although developed by Brain&Brain, this release is being ported by Seaven Studios who previously brought A Normal Lost Phone to the Switch.
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As such I’ve changed the review score from 6 to 7 but have left the main body of the text the same.īurly Men at Sea was first released in September 2016 on PC and Mobile and later on PS4 and Vita in 2017 – it is now the turn of Switch users to guide the Beard brothers through their quest to complete their map.
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EDIT 11/04/18 – The developer has been in touch and have managed to fix the bug I mentioned in this review, the update will roll out in the next couple of weeks.
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