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<!--But good as these islands are, they are a distant second to the sea i=
tself. I have never seen sea like this in a video game, sea that seems aliv=
e and wilful and prone to fits. It can be smooth and mediterranean, glowing=
an improbable Grecian blue under clear skies as if lit from below. And it =
can look mountainous as it bangs you around during a storm. In its ridges a=
nd walls of speckled surf you can look up from the ship's wheel and face an=
Andes, a Himalayas of angry water.=20
The sea has character, and in turn it gives your boat character, as it cons=
pires with the weather to set the wheel bucking beneath you, juddering, req=
uiring just a little more force to turn it now than it required a minute or=
two ago when things were fair. That weather! Sea of Thieves does a wonderf=
ul postcard rosy dawn, the perfect peachy tint to the sky to make you want =
to set out for the distant shadows on the horizon. But it also has a neat l=
ine in storms that seem entirely inescapable, grey monsters where the cloud=
s are oppressively low and filled with rain, and where the whole landscape =
seems to have become monochrome.=20
All of which is to say that regardless how big your ship, regardless whethe=
r you are going it alone or playing in a group of four, you can feel very s=
mall when set against the world of Sea of Thieves. And the quests available=
- three types, from three pirating societies - reinforce this. These quest=
s are almost comically simple, particularly in the early tiers. They amount=
to: go here and dig up treasure, go here and kill everything you see, go h=
ere and get me some chickens already. While they grow more complex as you r=
ise through the ranks - Sea of Thieves is particularly good when it's dispa=
tching you on your journey with a riddle rather than a map, since the riddl=
e makes you peer at the world and makes the nearly-empty islands you visit =
feel more alive and bespoke - they all hinge on something very clever: they=
ensure that your hold on success feel precarious.=20
Take that treasure chest you dig up on a distant island. Nice work! Now you=
have to get it back to port and cash it in or it's worth nothing. And to d=
o that, you have to physically handle it: you have to lug it aboard your sl=
oop or galleon, you have to store it in the hold or wherever feels safest, =
and then you have to get it to one of the game's handful of Outpost islands=
which contain quest vendors and shops and pubs. Same with the skull of a d=
ead pirate captain. Same with a crate of chickens or pigs. These are things=
you have to hold and carry around.=20
And protect. This is where the fiction of being a pirate suddenly starts to=
have consequences. Because there are other pirates out there, and the fact=
that they're pirates means that they have a licence to grief. Ship-to-ship=
battles are thrilling because of the wild card of the sea and because thes=
e battles hew to the same mechanical honesty the rest of the game employs. =
You need to load cannons and aim them and think about the kind of damage yo=
u want to inflict. Take out a sail? A mast? Or get them below the waterline=
? Sure, you can load yourself into a cannon and fire yourself onto an enemy=
deck, which probably strains credulity somewhat, but it feels like an acce=
ptably entertaining solution for closing gaps and dropping you into the gam=
e's crunchy, pleasantly basic combat, fought with a variety of blades and a=
variety of sooty, unwieldy firearms. (Combat may be straightforward but th=
ere are some inspired enemy types and it's filled with the weird comedy tha=
t always accompanies shambling undead enemies. If you've longed for a game =
that will allow you to be strangely menaced by the sight of a skeleton adva=
ncing towards you while eating a restorative banana, your ship has finally =
come in.) It's fun enough in PvE, which means taking it to the skeletons of=
increasing deadliness who spawn on islands. But it excels when it's other =
players, either boarding you to steal your plunder, or harassing you for th=
e hell of it - or being boarded by you because you're a pirate as well and =
why not?
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This, combined with the ship management you have to do in the heat of battl=
e, boarding up breaches in the hull, bailing out water with a bucket, means=
that a ship on the horizon is always a thrill. It's either something you c=
an cause a bit of mischief to or something you really need to keep away fro=
m. There is no UI that tells you this. Everything, like the map, the ship's=
wheel, the treasure you are lugging back and forth, exists in the world an=
d works because the game forces you to understand the rigour and fiction of=
the world as a thing in itself.=20
All of this is fun by yourself - Rare's latest is surprisingly entertaining=
to solo, in fact, because a small mistake can become a big problem terribl=
y quickly. But Sea of Thieves is made to be played with others. With random=
s, whether on voice chat or emotes and a selection of easily accessible phr=
ases, jumping into a galleon can be a bit like playing Quantum Leap. Where =
am I now? I'm in the hold of a ship and it's filling with water. Better get=
a bucket. Better get out of the way of that guy who's come down to fix thi=
ngs. No! He's a boarder! He's coming to kill me! Oh boy!
With friends, though, there is simply nothing like it. Last Friday I set ou=
t with a colleague to see the watery part of the world. We followed the fir=
st line of a riddle to an island where the next line tasked us with finding=
a magic wishing well and walking seven paces before digging for a chest. O=
n the way, we were bitten by snakes, attacked by skeletons, and generally m=
uddled by the fact that the island was big and we had to work out how to or=
ient ourselves in an absence of easy landmarks. When we had the chest and w=
ere headed back to the shore, I saw an object glinting in the sand: a book =
with a special message that took us to another island, where a fearsome ske=
leton boss was hiding out. To kill him, we had to take out a wave of enemie=
s who were invulnerable in the darkness. We either had to light them up wit=
h a torch or string the fight out until sunrise.=20
That's just one mission, and a lonely one at that. Elsewhere I've been atta=
cked after a long journey and seen my rewards sink to the bottom of the oce=
an in sight of land, I've whimpered during prolonged assaults on skeleton f=
ortresses, where the simple PvE of sword against bone suddenly starts to lo=
ok rather tactical. I've run myself aground while setting out on the first =
adventure of the morning, and I've stood on the shore of an island, carryin=
g loot, watching with the rest of my crew as my boat sank in front of us, f=
atally compromised in a way that none of us had bothered to check on in our=
excitement.=20
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Quests grow in complexity until you're a pirate legend; a Kraken appears at=
sea and menaces boats (this kraken appears far too often and is slightly d=
isappointing as a result); players vote one another into the brig or drive =
each other to distraction with accordion music. At times, it can seem that =
the real treasure that players are hunting is the ideal circumstances in wh=
ich to play - the right gang, the right quest, a clear run free from server=
issues and downtime. Even so, it's a mark of Sea of Thieves' charm and psy=
chological nous that it can be a great game even when you're having a sligh=
tly lousy time.=20
How long will it last? The progression system might be a bit of a red herri=
ng here, ditto the outfits and weapon skins and whatnot that you are curren=
tly tempted to pay far too much in-game currency for back on the Outposts. =
Once you've mastered sailing and fighting, you'll discover that you're not =
really trying to level up your skills in the game so much as you're trying =
to level up your thinking about the game. Sea of Thieves is trying to make =
you look at the humble bucket, say, which is perfect for bailing out your o=
wn boat, and ask yourself - could I actually sink another boat by bailing i=
n with this? It's trying to make you a more interesting person - and for th=
at alone it is hard to fault.=20
And limited as the map is, and simplistic as the quests are, there is still=
a sense at the moment that Sea of Thieves is too big for any one player. A=
s much as you investigate for yourself, there is still stuff to hear about =
from your friends. One says that if you play music to the snakes they won't=
bite you. Another has worked out you can puke in a bucket and throw it at =
someone. A third wonders if there are whales as well as sharks and a fourth=
says there must be, because, because... I reckon it was probably a bit lik=
e this with real pirates back in the day. Don't treasure stories always sta=
rt that way, with "A friend of a friend once told me..."
And what keeps me going once I'm drunk on gold and battered by the undead i=
s that splinter of defiance in the heart - that part of Sea of Thieves that=
is unwilling to devolve into helpful shorthand and UI tricks. The map you =
hold in your hands as you wade ashore is an actual map, and it works as a m=
ap works in the real world. It is a tool for finding your way, but it is no=
t a complete solution. As a result I've been walking around all week thinki=
ng about east and west and how to tell the difference between the two when =
I haven't got a compass to hand. I have been thinking about reckoning. This=
allows the game's fiction to create compelling moments - I have been genui=
nely lost in Sea of Thieves at times. But it also allows it to do what ever=
y game like this truly hopes to do - to cross over, to seep into your every=
day life.--->=20
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">An elegiac, memorable and affecting t=
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unchanged for weeks, months, maybe even years. The preserved room serves a=
s a walk-in memorial, a place to feel close to the departed (their beloved =
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the present even as time shunts them ever further into the past. It's a way=
to wrest control back from fate's capriciousness: fortune may have taken t=
his person from me, but I choose when to let them go.</span></p>=20
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<h2><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">What Remains of Edith Finch</span>=
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">The Finches, a family that came to Am=
erica from Norway in 1937, have endured more unexpected bereavement than mo=
st. Tragedy has been so frequent a visitor to the Finches that they were on=
ce described as America's "most unfortunate family." In seven dec=
ades no fewer than ten Finches died in or near to the family home. In this =
way the house has become a warren of memorials: each of its bedrooms, studi=
es and basements sit sealed in time, as if waiting</span></p>=20
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<span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Edith's great grandfather, Odin Finch,=
sailed to America from Norway in 1937 on the house that he built. It sank,=
just off the island's shore, where it remains, poking from the waves, to t=
his day.</span>
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">In 2016, one occupant does return: Ed=
ith Finch. Six years ago, believing theirs to be a localised curse confined=
to the house, Edith's mother scooped up what remained of her family and fl=
ed. The house has since stood empty. After inheriting the home, Edith, look=
ing to confront or at very least face her family's sad past, sets about unp=
icking its various locks and secrets. "Whatever's wrong with this fami=
ly," she says, soon after she crawls through a kitchen cat flap to gai=
n entry, "goes back a long way."</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Those secrets are spilled, primarily,=
by the letters and diaries left in the time-locked rooms. Each snippet tri=
ggers lengthy, vivid flashbacks, and in this way you come to understand how=
each Finch lived and, in most cases, how they died. This dour premise does=
not play out as you might expect: the game is neither macabre nor unsettli=
ng. Yes, the house may be full of ghosts, but this is not a game played for=
scares. In part, that's because of the role you're in: Edith is a Finch, e=
rgo these spectres are her people. But it's also in the delivery, which is =
melancholic (helped enormously by Jeff Russo's exquisite, mournful score) r=
ather than frightening, and kooky rather than alarming. This tour is reflec=
tive, and while the game could reasonably be described as magical realism s=
nuff, it also offers, in its way, a quietly affecting celebration of life.<=
/span></p>=20
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">The house emerges as one of video gam=
es' most memorable characters. Edith's great grandmother, Edie, was a playf=
ul architect, and this is a warren of secret passages. Locks hide inside bo=
oks. Books hide inside locks. The house appears to have been built upon to =
accommodate each successive generation of Finch, with the kind of weird pro=
trusions and extensions that would cause a building inspector to blanche. T=
here is "too much of it" Edith says of the house, "like a sm=
ile with too many teeth." Stag beetles under glass hang on the walls. =
The shelves sag under the weight of all the paper: Calvino's Invisible Citi=
es, Homer's The Odyssey, a fat compendium of Norwegian Folktales. And each =
bedroom reflects the character and interests of its vanished inhabitant. Po=
sters line the saccharine den that once belonged to Edith's great aunt Barb=
ara, a child star betrayed, as they so often are, by the arrival of puberty=
Lewis's room is a shrine to weed and video games, his flashback a caution=
ary tale of a life devoted to chasing virtual success.</span></p>=20
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tor': you move through a series of environments triggering the next dose of=
narrative. But the genre descriptor flattens what is a rich and inventive =
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Text plays a crucial role in the game,=
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or a doorway. Letters then scatter like dandelion fronds in the wind, while=
sentences flutter like a kite's tail in the wind. These aren't mere animat=
or's flourishes. They contribute to the rich texture of the story, which is=
both novelistic, filmic and something somehow unique to games too. The fin=
al pay-off is gently ambiguous.</span></p>=20
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not only instructive but also restrictive, is fully earned. This is studie=
d, careful world-building and storytelling, and the spell it succeeds in ca=
sting is quite unlike that of any game that has come before.</span></p>=20
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">A limited and simplistic pirate adven=
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its own ideas.</span></p>=20
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<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Put down the controller and close you=
r eyes: there is no better game on earth to listen to. What do I hear? The =
creak of timbers, the flap of a sail, the thud and shudder and boom of the =
ocean.</span></p>=20
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lonk</em> of the ship's wheel settling back into its full-ahead positi=
on (so subtle you have to <em>really</em> listen for it; at times=
I think I am imagining the whole thing). There's the strained, buckling&nb=
sp;<em>groan</em> of your hull reacting to a dropped anchor when it st=
ill has sails filled with wind. Best of all there's the neat, arresting, co=
nfirmative <em>thwack</em> of a shovel digging into sand and hitt=
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s, and while your eyes get the glorious rolling, thrashing drama of the wat=
ers to look at, your ears get so much else besides. Your ears get the detai=
ling that really sells the fiction.</span></p>=20
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a buried chest - helped orient me in the early stages when Rare seemed eag=
er to abandon me, thrillingly, maddeningly, to the ocean itself. Sea of Thi=
eves is a shared-world pirate-'em-up, but it explains almost none of its sy=
stems from the off. I chose a pirate avatar, I selected a single-person slo=
op rather than a multi-person galleon to knock about in, and then I spawned=
in a pub on a tiny island surrounded by raging waters. It was raining outs=
ide so I lingered in the pub for a while. I picked up some bananas and some=
cannonballs. I looked for obvious signs of a tutorial. Eventually I wander=
ed into the downpour and found a dock with my boat - presumably it was mine=
- at the end of a jetty. And then I boarded it and set off.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Well, for 15 minutes I learned how to=
use that boat, and <em>then</em> I set off. Sea of Thieves is no=
t a complicated game, but it is not fond of the helpful mechanical metaphor=
s many games employ to make simple things completely easy. Often, these met=
aphors are employed to the game's overall detriment. Take Battlefield 1. Th=
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asy. There is no mini-map, just this map down in the map room - and it will=
stay in the map room when you leave. You can<a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" h=
ref=3D"http://www.premierconnections5.club/c5f4e2395pxK8612jG4427Mo805j40Ohbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47tQ3omKS5Ug10q5fAUsv/necessitates-sandwiches"> place a circle around your target once you have picked =
it out, but the circle will stay on the map down here. The maps of individu=
al</a> islands you are given when you're hunting for treasure, meanwhile, d=
o not even show your position on them, just the fiction-blooming big red X =
that needs no explanation.</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">Good, you now know wh<a style=3D"colo=
r: #ffffff;" href=3D"http://www.premierconnections5.club/a434S2395n_8I611V4t428D805m40rhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47bQ3omKS6E10kHv5Dlysv/quiescent-oppressors">ere you want to go. Now you wind up the an=
chor - it takes a while and it delivers beautifully on the buried, out-of-s=
ight mechanical truth of an old ship - and then you set the sails - how muc=
h canvas you're showing translates into how much speed you can expect. You =
angle the sails to catch the wind if need be and then you head to the ship'=
s wheel and steer, one eye on the comp</a>ass, no eye on the mini-map, beca=
use there is no mini-map. Occasionally, you have to run back to the map roo=
m to see how good your reckoning is. Or if yo<a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" h=
ref=3D"http://www.premierconnections5.club/stepper-Corvallis/e405y23v95S8m6i12Xh4m429o805g40Ihbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47uQ3omKS7i1iO0MR5BksvJ">u're playing with friends you can have someone installed=
in the map room, someone installed in the crow's nest, and people on deck =
to drop the anchor, trim the sails, load the cannons with cannonballs. You =
can do this on your own - it is manageable on a</a> sloop, and wonderfully =
satisfying when it's done well - but Sea of Thieves makes few concessions, =
or rather it makes enough work for you to forget all the basic concessions =
it is secretly making in order to allow you to play this kind of thing at a=
ll. The end-result is that sailing in Sea of Thieves is a reward in itself.=
</span></p>=20
<p><span style=3D"color: #ffffff;">The ocean helps. Sea of Thieves' map =
is roo<a style=3D"color: #ffffff;" href=3D"http://www.premierconnections5.club/c5f5M239D5jV86v10q442ay805t40Khbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47SQ3omKS6VY1U0x6szlUsv/stepper-Corvallis">my and scattered wit=
h islands, each one beautifully crafted, sand glinting with silicate giving=
way to rocks and tufts of wind-blo</a>wn grass. These are places for proce=
dural rewards to spawn - treasure to be pulled from the sa<a style=3D"color=
: #ffffff;" href=3D"http://www.premierconnections5.club/4856uG23v95P8H6V10Q442bp805Q40zhbr47Ga-Drrs4rGIEHbwG4wwfGaDvsrEibxEIH47sQ3omKS7U10hFpC5RUqsv/dreaming-finesse">nd, skeleton crews to be shattered with cut=
lass or pistol, chickens or pigs to be captured and shipped where they are =
requested. But the islands are not procedural themselves, and they are fill=
ed with little details - a grotto where glowing water laps at the</a> rocks=
, a hammock amongst reeds, a chair and table set to face the surf - that de=
liver a wonderfully characterful sense of the world and its often unseen in=
habitants.</span></p>=20
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