Journey with Kay by boat and on foot, navigate harsh landscapes, solve puzzles and confront the monsters to help her find her inner peace and her sea of solitude. Featuring a deeply moving script by Cornelia Geppert, Sea of Solitude: The Director’s Cut takes you through a drowned city where light has been submerged in darkness, and metaphorical creatures evoke painful emotions that Kay must face and overcome. Loneliness, depression, and abandonment take on the form of frightening beasts and fantastical creatures in the award-winning Sea of Solitude, an action/adventure game revisited for the Nintendo Switch, now as The Director’s Cut.Īdventure through a beautiful and troubling world where nothing is as it seems, to confront and conquer your fears.
AN EMOTIONAL ADVENTURE - Sea of Solitude: The Director’s Cut takes you on a beautiful and heart-pounding action-adventure with Kay, a girl so hopeless that she has turned into a monster.These themes may be distressing to some people.
There is also a scene where a male monster and female monster (representing the character’s parents) are arguing about how they had children too early and it ruined their careers. You can hear some of the insults they use against him, such as “Hah! Being ugly really does run in your family.
One particular chapter focuses on her brother and how he has had to deal with bullies. System: Switch Release date: MaDeveloper: Jo-Mei Publisher: Quantic Dream After making only the faintest of splashes in its initial release on other consoles in 2019, the emotional indie game Sea of Solitude has returned on Switch. The monsters can insult your character throughout the game. The game features the use of the word game focuses on the loneliness and self-destructiveness of the character and her family members. Eventually, the human-shaped monsters can overwhelm you and the screen will go dark as the game resets to the last checkpoint. The only sign of injury is the screen which changes colour and gets darker with each hit. You can also be shoved backwards by some human-shaped monsters. There are also lots of hands that can drag you under the water as the screen goes dark. You don’t see any detail, just the body disappearing into the monster’s mouth as you scream and the screen goes dark as it brings you back to the last checkpoint. If your character steps into the sea, a giant swimming monster will come and attack, it will throw your character into the air and catch you in its teeth and eats you. Rated PEGI 12 for frequent moderate violence and use of offensive language. Through this you can, to some extent, share the experience of what it feels like to be affected by loneliness, bullying, toxic relationships, depression and a troubling past. But still, while the game can be overly literal at times and resolve longstanding issues relatively quickly, the deft combination of interaction, emotion and challenge creates a unique space to step inside these challenges and character failings. "All you care about is yourself, that's why you will fail," states the trailer, clearly signposting that this is how you don't fail. The game world mirrors each of these traumas with metaphorical creatures and obstacles to overcome. While you do this, you encounter the audible inner dialogue of your character that tells a story of quarrelling parents, the emotional isolation of a friend and the terrible experiences of her brother being bullied. As you explore a flooded city you discover dark creatures that you must deal with - by uncovering their underlying emotional disorder - to progress and, as you do, slowly unpick what happened to Kay. Sea of Solitude is an adventure where you play a young woman, Kay, with such strong loneliness that her feelings turn her into a monster.
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