Submerged (PlayStation 4) Review | Cubed3

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Submerged (PlayStation 4) Review | Cubed3

Added: 04.09.2015 12:17 | 3 views | 0 comments

Cubed: The "walking sim" has become a sub-genre that many lazy indie developers have embraced because it can give the excuse of being an "adventure game" that harkens back to Myst, while totally abandoning what made that game so effective. Typically, these games tend to be very minimalistic in their story-telling, with barely any features or depth, and communicate their story in the most schmaltzy or posed way imaginable. Sometimes, it is done effectively (Hideo Kojima's P.T.), but most of the time they are pretty laughable and boring games with no replay value. When Uppercut Games decided to do their own take on the "walking sim," they opted to pretty much use the standard playbook as a bible, as well as being derivative of other popular "artsy" games, and delivering it in a buggy, incomplete messy wrapping. Submerged is an unmitigated wreck.