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Our planet plays host too many natural wonders that we often
gloss over in our fast-paced lives as a medium videogames often choose to favor
other types of exciting topics over that of learning more about the ocean. Which
covers a great portion of our floating space rock. Enter beyond blue a project
that aims to marry narrative adventure games with documentary style snippets. All
in an effort to entertain while teaching us about the great blue expanse and
its marvels. In beyond blue you play as Mirai a scientist and diver whose
fondness for the ocean and its wildlife stems from early childhood. Equipped
with a special suit and a rebreather the lets her freely explore the ocean. The
game frames her journey is a scientific expedition focused on testing
cutting-edge technology. This includes tracking scanning and analyzing how sea
life behaves and communicates. While also live-streaming her dives to a global
audience. You’ll do lots of swimming and scan plenty of creatures in Beyond blue
in-between tagging new points of interest using underwater boys.
Your dives
take you across several levels set at varying depths and different times of day.
Which the game does a decent job of reflecting visually. The oceans different
beautiful shades of blue get replaced by darkness the deeper you go to the
point where they completely disappear. If you're closer to the surface of the
ocean it almost feels welcoming deeper down navigation relies on your attached
source of light and eruptions from underwater volcanoes creating an almost
oppressive atmosphere. Scanning creatures as they swim past you unlocks their
respective entries in your science log. Which also reveals the total scannable
number of each discovered creature. The more creatures of one type you scan the
more you learn about them. Including the depths at which they live and certain
interesting particularities about them and their behaviors the futuristic Manta
drone you get early on in the story can blend in with the oceans inhabitants
and scan important points along the bodies of sea life revealing even more info.
As you return to an area you've already visited finding creatures you've
already scanned in previous dives gives the game world and your efforts a
welcomed sense of permanence. most of the actions you perform whether it's observing
sperm whales sleeping or dolphins rubbing across corals or maybe even picking
up sensors for recharging are contextualized by the back-and-forth banter
between Mariah and her companions in the scientific expedition Irina and Andre.
We’re mirai's enthusiasm lights up from the first moment you meet her
especially around the family of sperm whales that more or less hold together
beyond blues frail narrative. Arena is more pragmatic looking to use potential
research to found a biotech company Andre is the protective member of the
expedition. Showcasing wariness towards the negative influence that humans tend
to have on the ocean. Over the game's seven hour runtime the three discuss
cooperate and argue without feeling fleshed out enough to escape the status of voices
dispensing interesting information about the ocean. Despite their expressive
voice acting. in between dives you return to your compact submarine on it you
can inspect different items that make your small quarters feel lived in and
listen to music from a varied playlist that might just lead to discovering a
handful of cool new tunes.
You can also interact with the table that lets you
inspect 3d models of discovered marine life and their various behaviors like
nursing or swimming at different speeds and you can also talk to Irina Andre
and Mirai sister Ren. Beyond blue tries to tug on the player's heartstrings by
bringing mirai's family and their problems into the mix but fails to create a
sense of connection through its fleeting dialogue. Subsequent visits to the
submarine also become dry detours from observing the ocean life out in the open.
Although as much as the games worn-out mechanics failed to compel. it does
succeed in creating a connection between Mariah and the sperm whale family that
she frequently checks up on. Welcoming a new member swimming alongside them
observing and listening to their fascinating songs that change based on what
they're doing. they're all memorable experiences to top things off progressing
through dives unlocks short videos in the menus inside panel in which marine
biologists like dr. Sylvia Earle and other experts chime in on the oceans
incredible beauty and diversity alongside the immensely intricate nature of
whale songs. Completing all of the game's eight dives also gives you access to
free dive mode which lets you go back to any of the levels and complete your
scan collection or simply swim alongside the animals. There’s undoubtedly a
specific sort of tranquility to swimming alongside fish of all shapes and sizes.
Sadly beyond blue slices of ocean feel a little too artificial especially when
compared to the real-life videos in the insight menu.
The game predominantly in
its early stages lacks visual richness and unscanned creatures conveniently
appear around your objectives always in limited numbers. While they do showcase
different behaviors some swimming together in schools others are preferring
smaller families with the occasional sighting of lone small fish or turtles
eating jellyfish. They feel purposefully put there by the visible hand of a
level designer rather than organically appearing in their natural habitat. Which
ultimately harms immersion. The system we reviewed the game on is an Intel i7
8700 K 16 gigabyte RAM NVIDIA GTX 10 78 GB and Windows 10 64 bit and Beyond blue
ran without issue at 1080p at the highest settings. Which isn't surprising
given how it's not a very demanding game although its open levels aren't
excessively large. They’re built in such a way that they create the impression
of a seemingly infinite blue expanse. at least until you reach the invisible
walls marking their borders there's a plethora of character models some of
which have interesting particularities like the glowing comb jelly or the way
in which a 7 arm octopus propels itself through the water.
That being said the
videos in beyond Blue's inside section overshadow its world as its creatures
animation can occasionally feel stiff and surprisingly in expressive. Beyond blue
struggles as a narrative adventure game but shines as an educational tool that
brings awareness and reveals some of the ocean secrets. Its few characters
don't quite stand out and the simple core game-play loop of swimming scanning
and following way-points comes off as rather bland. Well there's not much
excitement in the actions that you perform the way they're contextualized pulls
the experience up significantly. Different moments during exploration and the
short documentary style videos featuring real-life experts ensure that by the
time you're done with it you'll have learned at least a handful of new and
fascinating things about the ocean and its inhabitants.
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