The adventures that the bearded brothers embark upon are founded upon fairytale dream-logic, which - while cute in some ways - doesn't make for a story that holds ones interest for long. The scenery and characters are vector based and minimalist, which is fine, but nothing particularly visually striking. It's unfortunately not a narratively engaging nor visually impressive picture book. As such, it manages to quite endearingly capture the feeling of a picture-book. Visual novels are their own genre entirely, and while many include branching paths in terms of plot and character interaction, very few do much to actualise their worlds, continuing largely to use the medium of writing to introduce settings, rather than utilising animated environments.īurly Men at Sea takes the concept a little further, and at least makes efforts to set the scene, with less of a focus on the dialogue, and more on the settings. Telltale's The Walking Dead have some of the same flavour, and games like This Book is a Dungeon are interactive interpretations of a story with branching paths, and deathtraps, albeit with minimal visual information. Games with branching dialogue options that affect outcomes down the line, e.g. It's surprising to me that there aren't more games in the style of classic choose-your-own adventure books. The trouble is that while Burly Men at Sea is a choose-your own-adventure book at its core, and doesn't offer much beyond a couple of ten minute playthroughs. There was a run of hard copies of the game in hardback print form, which is a claim that not many other games can make at the very least. There ought to be something else like this out there, but better Burly Men at Sea is a book, quite literally.
Definitely going to try to get all endings. So anyways I now have the site on my bookmarks in case the hardbound copies come back in stop so I can buy them allĪ+ game. Like why would I purchase a book in a game that I just played. What kind of sick twisted person would make a game like this, and then tell me to buy their book of an adventure I just played. You literally put an advert for buying a book in this video game. Go check the numbers on the library shelf in the coffee shop. Trying my hardest to pick a path unique.įinish round two. I'm like "Okay whale path, heres a different soltuion." BAM.
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THE NUMBERS MASON WHAT DO THEY MEAN! I'm sitting here pondering away at what super secret code I'm going to decipher as I play through the game. Super excited to figure out the mystery of the numbers on the books and the different routes. I decided to play it on stream today and played through the game twice. Hello, I purchased this game a few months ago and was super excited to play it. It was okay, but I wouldn't go out of my way to play it, especially at the current price. The question of the thumbs down is: Would I ever recommend this game to others? No. It's the same problem as TellTale's The Cave.īurly Men at Sea is simply okay.
Each game takes roughly 30 minutes, but the more you play as you head toward completion, the more content you've already seen. Navigation is slow as you can only see half of any room you're in.
There are about 20 choices and it is very difficult for me to work up the enthusiasm to keep playing.
The stories and mythology are good too as are the characterization of the three beards. The art style is great, especially when they use it to do cool things (the background was a fishing net all along). This is another game that makes me roll my lips and go "prrrrbbbbbtttt."īurly Men at Sea is essentially an animated "Choose Your Own Adventure" book with a maritime theme.
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