Well, perhaps, this is the most ambiguous game of those in which I played.
Actually, Aquaria is not the same game that she wants to be, namely: a colorful platformer with a fabulous world and a deep plot. Perhaps I focus on and pick up for some good, but specific parties, but, unfortunately, they created my impression as such.
This game was given to me, apparently impressed by trailers and reviews of other people: they say, a fairy tale with a deep meaning, pleasant mechanics and a huge map. Well, it sounds good. I myself love games in the Spirit of Beyound Good & Evil, Guacamelee and Dust. What to say, all these games are excellent, each in its own way, and some just unconditionally. And it should also be with an aquarium, but did not particularly have grown.
According to the plot, we play for a girl who spent a lot of time alone and decided to look for an adventure on their webbed flies, for it was tired of sitting in a wonderful and cozy cave. It seems to be a good idea. But not in our case.
The heroine of the fabulous world falls into a series of incomprehensible events, on the way to an even more incomprehensible goal. And this path, not so fabulous and joyful as it was possible to assume, the pain, suffering and the overaffect of the insides of the giganic organisms. Nowhere, I have not yet seen such an oppressive atmosphere, honestly.
Damn it, I had goosebumps on the skin every 15 minutes. Thanks for this, namely music, which seems to be beautiful and nothing in it. But she pierces you, forcing you nervous and worry. The oversupply of small and large enemies, which turn the trip to a kind of surveival, because to throw off the flippers here easier than a simple, and the screen is filled with self-equipping shells and other tweaks surprisingly very quickly.
Water levels that are increasingly and more often look worse than a nuclear apocalypse or zombie invasion, mutants, aliens with a full drank of all living and terraformation of territories. Do not take into account solar bees. What relief. Do you have the castles of dead civilizations in the program have seen many times? Castles, swords and guts, and the most interesting for dessert, the body with a circulatory system and sticking out of the walls by exhausted faces, hello to the main monster from the game Doom, there just get the hair on the end, damn the same Aquarius!
The most joyful place on the map is a racing track of sea skates, even there everyone is fine, fins from normal places grow. Summing up three factors, we have a colorful platformer that gives your mind gradually, probably stronger than the most confused horror, but maybe you can play this game for the sake of the plot? There is no answer and not once again. The concentration of the plot for the first 12 hours and the last hour in the proportional ratio will be about 1/99.
That is, in principle, you can watch the masterpiece on your plan and an extraordinary approach without jokes of the battle with bosses and, accordingly, the rollers after these battles, which, unfortunately, will tell you something like, there was a race and engaged in his business and fishery But suddenly the gods said - enough, the end came to you. Something more or less important to you only at the end, and then in the secret ending, for before the titles you will talk such everyday things that you probably feel a sharp pain in the area of the ass, realizing that they spent 14 hours of their life in order to Play.
I did not affect many gameplay aspects, but I told the most important thing. In terms of mechanics, everything is interesting and well connected. If you bring the line, then what we get. This game is worth playing for the game itself, for the sake of the process, without regretting your time on a measured and leisure study of everything and all. I do not know, well, as in a terrarium, for example. No one will tell you what to do and where to go, it all depends on you and your imagination and smelting.
If you are handing the same as I, chasing only one story, you will only get a charred hole in a chair and hemorrhoids, not to mention the broken fingers to the keyboard keys, and not positive emotions, no matter how you wanted it.
