Developer: Uppercut Games | Released: 2022 | Genre: 3PS, Adventure
This will be the last entry in my blog series with balanced reviews.
This sequel to Submerged is essentially more of the same. The goal is different – put a big seed in an enormous flower located in large buildings – and it has more collections as well as a few more features, including the brother now joining in on the adventure. But other than that, it’s still relaxed climbing, jumping and sailing, and again it often feels a little bit too easy.
With the brother now steering the boat, the two siblings sail between buildings to climb them for various objectives. The main one is lifting a beach ball of a seed into a big flower to change the organic flow of the building, but there are also other objectives such as finding relics, collections, books with the history of the city, boat boosters, light a fire in towers, discovering landmarks and animals, etc.
The most noticeable new features are mostly related to the boat. It can now drag bridges and platforms out with a rope, and it’s also where you see the brother raise relics with an anchor. The siblings are randomly in control when going on a climbing adventure in a building. That was a really cute feature, although the main story buildings with the seeds are for the sister only, as that part relates directly to her.
Pros
- Same beautiful sailing between overgrown buildings, with better lighting and varied weather.
- Lots of secondary tasks like finding collections, relics, books, flowers, lighting fires, etc.
- You can display your findings in the dome where the siblings sleep for the night.
- When you have put a seed in a flower inside a building, you are automatically brought home.
- The boat boosts to pick up for sailing faster around the city works the same as before.
- The map works with lots of target icons, and there’s now a Skyrim-style compass too.
Cons
- The game is easy mode. Most climbing and jumping is almost automatic and it’s impossible to die.
- You can’t just climb any building you see, it needs to have an interactive hotspot you can click.
- Some buildings are hard to reach because of the black/green tentacle growth around them.