Close your eyes, take a deep breath and let yourself be carried away by the great journey of Season, a third-person atmospheric adventure bicycle road trip game. Explore the world through the eyes of a young woman. Collect artifacts and memories before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away.
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a nice game whose small blemishes keep it from being a fantastic game.
a game all about riding a bike around landscapes, taking polaroid pictures, and journaling seems like a game made in a lab for me specifically. unfortunately, a few things kept nagging at me during my 7ish hour playthrough: this game suffers heavily from "Please stop talking" disease which isn't helped by the writing being so ostentatious and overly serious; the character designs are genuinely so good in this one, yet the last NPC you meet and finish the game with is cartoonishly goofy looking; and for a game all about exploring and experiencing the environment, the game's camera sure wanted to fight me the entire bike ride! these are by no means game-breaking flaws by themselves, but together they definitely weighed down what should have been a short and sweet experience, making it feel more like a slog than it needed to be.
also made me want to give my mom a hug so take with that what you will.
a game all about riding a bike around landscapes, taking polaroid pictures, and journaling seems like a game made in a lab for me specifically. unfortunately, a few things kept nagging at me during my 7ish hour playthrough: this game suffers heavily from "Please stop talking" disease which isn't helped by the writing being so ostentatious and overly serious; the character designs are genuinely so good in this one, yet the last NPC you meet and finish the game with is cartoonishly goofy looking; and for a game all about exploring and experiencing the environment, the game's camera sure wanted to fight me the entire bike ride! these are by no means game-breaking flaws by themselves, but together they definitely weighed down what should have been a short and sweet experience, making it feel more like a slog than it needed to be.
also made me want to give my mom a hug so take with that what you will.
A game about journaling. Unfortunately, the exquisite visuals and sound design are let down by the writing and voice acting. It just feels kind of...on the nose, and ultimately, the odd pacing and lackluster writing take a meditative experience and make it a game that I can only recommend to fans of the exploration game genre.