Kay sea of solitude1/26/2024 ![]() You’ll be sailing a dinghy, avoiding enemies and making timed jumps over treacherous ocean gaps to avoid the sea monster begging you to slip in. A game that doesn’t use it’s visuals, sounds and mechanics as a means to turn your brain off for hours on end but to rather present a handful of controls and let those do the talking whilst drawing you into the world it’s creating. Sea of Solitude is a game that should be labelled as an experiential metaphor. You’re not gonna sit down with Sea of Solitude expecting open-ended and expansive mechanical design, and if you do intend to play it for that reason I think you’d be missing the point. There’s platforming and some very light puzzle solving in the mix, but they feel largely inconsequential to the game. ![]() All she has is a backpack and a boat to make her way around a flooded city while constantly being pursued by gigantic demons always belittling and demeaning her. You’ll play as Kay, a twenty-something young woman who’s trapped in some form of insidious sea. About taking the emotions and experiences of the game’s writer and distilling it down to mechanical interaction. Sea of Solitude is a game built on selling a metaphor. I suppose it’s difficult to describe if you’ve never actually experienced the difference first hand, which is why I’m so pleased Sea of Solitude exists because it is perhaps one of the most expressive, vulnerable interpretations of depression, loneliness and anxiety I’ve ever come across. A way of being that one gets used to, even when they don’t want to. One comes and goes while the other… it’s more permanent. There’s a difference between “feeling” depressed and “being” depressed. But “being”? That’s a state of existence. There’s an aspect of time to things that are felt. When something is “felt”, it’s often fleeting one feels warm, sad, hungry. ![]() Look, it’s a silly semantic difference, I get that. Yet despite how easy it can be to feel lonely, I don’t think many people have been lonely. It can be from just staying at home by yourself for a day too long, or maybe all your friends at school were homesick and you didn’t know who to sit with during lunch. It’s not exactly a difficult emotion to experience. I think nearly everyone on earth has felt lonely before.
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