A floating hospital with a mystic grandma as a affected person? Narrative journey Wayward Strand presents this and plenty of different mysterious tales to uncover as 15-year-old journalist Casey Beaumaris. Given three days to wander round and write your paper on the flying hospital’s historical past, the sport soothes you into the calm and mellow on a regular basis lives of the aged residents.
A rhythmic, light, sparse acoustic guitar captures a tranquil and serene setting maintained all through its roughly six-hour timespan. The sport introduces a solid simply as vibrant because the creamy pastel aesthetic it adopts to inform its story. This selection of artwork model is paying homage to younger youngsters’s cartoons. Whenever you enter a room, the partitions decrease down like a theatre curtain, giving the sense that you’re watching a play unfold. To not deter the older viewers, in reality, this visible model solely provides to its endearment, supported by its option to focus totally on an age group that’s hardly ever given the highlight in leisure media.
The sport presents loads of dialogue, with greater than 20,000 traces of script that can nearly definitely make you soar again to do a second playthrough. Nevertheless, with no choice to both quick ahead or skip dialogue, it makes going by way of a second run a little bit of a chore. Not solely that, however whereas the sport is sort of brief, it solely has three save factors, with every on the finish of a roughly two-hour chapter. You may positively suppose twice earlier than closing the sport earlier than a chapter is over.
With a stunning solid and setting, Wayward Strand is certain to land into your coronary heart even when it does lack gameplay necessities corresponding to extra frequent save factors or, on the very least, a skip button.
