3/18/2023 0 Comments Sea of solitude ps4 review![]() ![]() I try to help the people I love out of it, but it doesn’t fix me. There’s plenty of bright moments where I have fun and feel good, but they are surrounded and drowned out by my predisposition to feel bad. I do however see the moments where this shines through and really speaks to the world the realities of depression. Depression is similar yet very different for many people and I realize this is one person’s take on it and it is unfair to criticize how they feel depression and loneliness because it is not like my own. It was well done and I think had they not used the word monster I wouldn’t be coming back to that point, but it feels dismissive of people who have more than just the occasional sad. There is a point later in this game that shows one character in their symbolic animal form slowly darken as they isolate themselves and fall into depression. I realize it’s an artistic choice but it feels wrong to me. Depression is a monster, the people that live with it are not. Am I a monster for doing that? I don’t feel like a monster. I isolate myself because I don’t like other people and I don’t like myself. Maybe these characters are monsters because they too think they are terrible, but the issue is that the game could also be saying that this isolation and this depression makes you a monster.Īs I write this I am in a depressive state, meaning I don’t want to talk to people. I like this concept in theory, but the creators chose the word monster and that’s generally used to describe terrible people. I am not sure if it is the isolation or the depression that turns people into these monsters, but each segment of the game has Kay, the protagonist, going through someone’s story of how they got to where they are and ultimately freeing them of their monstrous form. In the world of Sea of Solitude, people become isolated and then turn into monsters. Here’s where the review gets difficult for me, because I’m not sure what I am supposed to take away from this game. Outside of that, the game is quite forgiving, meaning it is accessible to most people, even those not super familiar with video games. The most difficult part of this game for some people will be the moments where the player has to time movement across water as to not be eaten by a giant monster. There’s plenty of collectibles to find, but for the most part the game tells the player what to do. Most of the game is a third person exploration game with a fair amount of platforming and minor puzzle solving. ![]() ![]() I knew it was a very personal story that dealt with depression or some adjacent feeling to it and I had some interest in playing the game as someone who has had depression since before the age of 10.īefore I delve into the story, arguably the main content of the game, I want to just lightly touch upon the mechanics. Like most people, my first and really only exposure to Sea of Solitude was the introduction at EA’s press conference from E3 a while back (I don’t remember the year). THIS IS A HARD GAME TO TALK ABOUT WITHOUT GETTING PERSONAL. ![]()
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