![]() ![]() If you want thrills, chills and hundreds of hours of replayability for every penny spent, forget about it. ![]() Indeed, for a game about something so vast and mysterious, Beyond Blue offers a starkly constrained range of things to do. There are sixteen short documentaries included, unlockable along the way, and. There are eight modestly-sized levels, with visual-novel-type interludes telling a thoughtful, bittersweet story in between. The answer, it transpires, was a very simple diving simulator, about swimming up to a range of extremely realistic marine animals and clicking on them. The sea and its contents are possibly the most potent preoccupation in my overly-preoccupied life, and so I was open to whatever these people wanted to sprinkle on me. I didn't actually know what it was, you know, as a game. I knew that it would feature whales in some capacity. I knew that it promised a sober and ultra-realistic exploration of the oceans, and that the Flaming Lips were on the soundtrack. ![]() When I began playing, I knew that it had been made in association with the filmmakers behind the Blue Planet II series, and in consultation with a host of marine scientists. So many are the dignities heaped upon Beyond Blue, that it's somewhat hard to get at the game beneath. With gorgeous seascapes, nuanced writing and a heart the size of a whale's, Beyond Blue sets a new bar for educational games - but as pure entertainment, it has its limits. ![]()
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