Capturing some images and audio brings out Estelle’s inner thoughts, which often become writings you can jot down, too. The same is true of capturing audio–you just point and shoot–and these audio clips become mementos you can include in your travel log. Simple camera tools like zoom, focus, and colour filters allow you to frame and present a moment just as you intend, and, if you like it enough, you can include it in your scrapbook. It’s all equally valid and other than a few puzzle-like sections where you’ll need to find specific items, there are no wrong answers. You can capture photos of cows grazing after their human companions have moved out, focus on the juxtaposition of industry and nature on the eve of the dam collapse, or create a portrait of a grieving widow as she packs up her late husband’s best suit. In your scrapbook, each named location gets its own dedicated pages as you discover them, and what you put on those pages is up to you. You’ll find the world casually split into sections: a cemetery, a temple, a path to a farmhouse, and so on. Meeting each denizen of Tieng Valley allows Estelle to ponder her own place in the world.īiking through the wide-open valley after a linear introduction, you can stop anywhere and take pictures of anything. These, and other themes, are delivered through thoughtful monologues and conversations that allow for players to insert themselves in the story. Equipped with a camera, audio recorder, scrapbook, and bicycle, Estelle treks into the valley to interview the last remaining locals, capture the state of the vista in its final days, and reflect on things like memory, community, and grief. For the people of Tieng Valley, a lush farming village that’s largely been evacuated due to an imminent dam collapse, the beginning of the season may even be a matter of life and death. Seasons seem to be more defined by the particular circumstances of a society–the breakout of war or widespread sleep, for example–more than they are snow days or fallen foliage.įor Estelle, it’s important to document the outgoing season as all will be lost when the new season begins, even as no one seems sure what that season will usher in itself. The game is deliberately unclear regarding exactly why, when, or how seasons emerge, and it seems at least sometimes they are influenced by people rather than natural things that happen to those people. In this unnamed world, which is like ours but also definitely not ours, a new season doesn’t mean just a change in temperature it means a total rebirth of the state of things. You play as Estelle, a young woman who sets off to observe and record a part of her world on the precipice of a new season. Season has a new approach to gameplay and the story is fresh and largely disinterested in giving you boxes to check. This quest leads you to figure out the mysteries around you. Your tools peel back these layers until you grasp the culture, history, and ecology underneath everything. Each recording tool captures a different layer sounds and music, art and architecture, the stories of characters living through pivotal moments. The gameplay focuses on exploring, recording, meeting people, and unravelling the strange world around you. Immerse yourself in the world of Season, a third-person atmospheric adventure bicycle road trip game. This means taking photographs, drawing, and taking videos of the people you meet and the things you see. Much of Season is spent just existing in its world, meeting its people, and taking various notes about what you see. Leave home for the first time to collect memories before everything is washed away. Riding off into the unknown, she leaves her home to try to capture this moment for the future. In her world, a season is a period of history, an era. No one has left in a generation, no one until Estelle. High in the mountains, there is a village safe from the turmoil of changing seasons. The game follows Estelle as she seeks to document information about her village before a cataclysmic event destroys it and every memory its people have of it. Season is available for PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 since the 31st of January 2023. Scavengers Studio has been famed for its game, Season for its vibe, gorgeous visual style, and its featuring of a Black protagonist.
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