Beyond a Coral Sea

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At some point in time, this game was made free, which is how I got it. And for a while I neglected it as I had other, more advertised games to sink my teeth into first. But late at night, after a stroke of inspiration and drive, I found myself wanting a [i] new [/i] VR experience. Something I felt like I had yet to find in titles like The Walking Dead: Saints And Sinners and Boneworks. I soon realized with my frugal existence, this was unattainable. No disposable income on hand, and nothing in my library that would be the experience I searched for, I was bothered. So I went for something new. Something that I instead [i] wasn't [/i] looking for. And I remembered: Memories From Beyond a Coral Sea. Everything, thematically and mechanically, start to finish, was nothing short of incredible. From the beauty of the night sky, to the hopeful feelings that the bright, bright blue water gave me, I was hooked. Not once did I pause, nor take a break, this was an experience that I didn't want to let go of. The many times I felt like the smartest man alive when I made the smallest of steps and the many times I just stood or sat in place, this was an experience that I didn't want to end. And very often I just had to ask: What happened? What happened in my past? What happened to me? To my family? My friends? Is this real? [spoiler] Am I truly hearing voices in seashells? Am I truly attempting to fight crabs that come up to my waist in height? [/spoiler] I previously mentioned that it was made free, and it was, but keeping that idea in my head I went to the store page expecting some greedy or overzealous price tag. I was very pleasantly surprised to see that it sits at a modest $6 USD. Although I started my playthrough at around 2 Am, finished around 4, (and stay writing this at 4:30) I say truthfully that I didn't even fully experience the game I received. But I can personally assure you that even if I never will, I will absolutely try. Daniel, John, Jonas, and everyone else that ever has and ever will associate with Snigelsoft, don't stop making this game. And furthermore, don't stop making games after this one in finalized. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with Memories From Beyond a Coral Sea. And I will be back. Thank you for reading, and hopefully, thank you for playing.

Hidden gem alert! I'm a fan of Stranded Deep and Bootstrap Island, but never heard of this until now. It appears this game precedes Bootstrap Island and also features a narrator... interesting. The two games are each doin' their own thing, though. This has beautiful graphics, at times photorealistic with great lighting/shadows and water effects/reflections. This is what VR should be all about -- escaping to a place you want to spend some time in. I'd like to see the gameplay loop extended with some kind of building/collecting/crafting/surviving and a day/night cycle (I did like the nighttime sky, but not sure if that is on a cycle or not). Oh, and I'd like to see the hands improved with better fidelity and more movement. Oh yeah, for the people complaining about having to lie on the floor -- just take off your headset and put it on the ground! (Maybe there should be an option to skip this for accessibility reasons) Buy this so the devs can add more to it please!

Karakterinizin geçmişini öğrenirken mistik adalarda yolunuzu keşfedin. Bu kısa macera oyununda, 1800'lerin sonlarında Pasifik'te geçen bir hikayeyi anlatan bir anı kitabının kahramanı olarak oynuyorsunuz.

I got this game when it was free but in meantime there was added full locomotion and save states so finally I can play from where I stopped. Graphics are beautifull: high res textures, reflections, real time shadows - all here and optimisation is great. This is the game in which when you need go to sleep you have to lay down, when you want to drink coconut milk you need to break bottle and use shard as knife etc. There are details like putting sea shells to ear to listen them. We need more games like this which use VR to its potential!

Ich spiele jetzt schon mehrere Jahre in VR aber dieses "Cast Away" Erlebnis hat mich total begeistert und für 2,5 Stunden völlig in seinen Bann gezogen! Immer wieder habe ich nach einer Umsetzung von Stranded Deep für VR geschaut. Hier wurde ich fündig und es ist teilweise noch besser umgesetzt, könnte sich dort aber auch noch viel Inhalt abschauen. Ich würde mir so sehr wünschen, dass weiter an dem Spiel gearbeitet wird: - Bitte führt die super Story weiter! - Bitte vergrößert die Karten mit mehr (und auch etwas größeren) Inseln - Bitte führt mehr Crafting und Rezepte ein (Lagerfeuer, Werkezuge, Unterstand, größeres Floß usw.) - Bitte führt einen Endlosmodus ein, in dem man ohne oder nach der Story verweilen und genießen kann. Vielen Dank für die Entwicklung dieses jetzt schon großartigen Spiels.

Жена сказала, что если на этом обзоре наберётся 10 лайков и 5 наград, то она подарит ящик пива. Мужики, выручайте!

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This is one of the greatest Ocean games I've ever played! Enough with the super death leviathans, enough with oceans that barely resemble the ones on earth, and enough of the overcomplication and DEFINITELY enough with trying to make it scary. This game is a fresh breath of saltwater for me. Its not some dauntingly large complex game, and that's why I like it. Build a raft and go find islands, see what mushrooms kill you, taste good or are 'magic.' Find eldritch talking seashells. Stab fish with a sword. Hang out and enjoy a personal tropical paradise. No need to bother with some incredible weighty journey that takes you to see all the things besides the unmatched otherworldliness of normal earth starfish. I see so many games that take place in an alien ocean filled with giant monsters that want to kill you for no reason. None of these said giant monsters fill me with awe the way a NORMAL WHALE does. This game is beautifully simple with nothing more than the implication of deeper things, and while I know the ocean of earth is endlessly complex, a game about it doesn't have to be. And this game nailed the nautical atmosphere I've always hoped for better than even the most renown aquatic games. My only issue is the occasional use of what appears to be AI imagery, which I'm not a big fan of. Hopefully when the game is fully released it will also come with a cleansing of AI generated artwork. But this game is great and the use of AI imagery was sparse enough (from what I could tell) that I can look past it just this once.

Absolutely incredible. Highly recommend!