![]() He has the carpentry ability, which allows him to build bridges across areas that are otherwise unconnected, which allows you to gain access to certain things that you otherwise wouldn’t be able to get to. ![]() Each of these will have a set of abilities that you can use to gain access to areas of the map that you can’t get to on your own.įor example, one of the first ones you come across is a guy I referred to as Bob the Builder, because of his construction hat. Along the way, you will stumble across other castaways that you can recruit to help you. But, there are some interesting things that are thrown in with that simple core mechanic, which are mainly discovered through the use of the crew that you can recruit to help you in your journey. I found that the core gameplay loop of going to an island, searching for the magical tablets that enable you to continue your journey through the archipelago, and killing anything that gets in your way was a bit simple. ![]() I think this worked well for the game, because it makes swallowing the harsh pill of permadeath a little less wicked once you take that last fatal blow and have to start your run over again. The cell-shaded art style lends a kind of cartoonish, comic-book appearance to the game, which, along with the vibrant colors used, gives it the tone of being light hearted and fun. The game is presented in a top down perspective that allows you to rotate the camera in 360 degrees so that you never have to really worry about your vision being obscured or blocked by awkward default camera positioning. The particular combination of the tiles is different each time, but the individual tiles become familiar, so the illusion of infinite possibilities begins to fall apart pretty quickly. ![]() Each time you begin the game, the islands that are set before you are procedurally generated, so no two playthroughs are exactly the same, though the way the tiles are pieced together, after playing through the game a few times, you begin to feel a bit of the repetitive nature that many procedurally generated games that follow the tiling method fall prey to. The game features permadeath, so if you die at any point along the way, you’ll have to start your adventure over again, losing any skills that you may have learned along the way. Along the way, you will have to search for hidden treasures and fight various creatures and monsters that will do everything in their power to stop you from doing just that. You start the game with a machete and the goal of finding mystical tablets that will help you traverse the archipelago and eventually (hopefully) escape from your misfortune. Lost Sea is a game about finding yourself stranded in a mysterious archipelago after having become the most recent in a long and legendary line of victims to the Bermuda Triangle. ![]()
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