I'm speechless. I've just finished the game. It's... It's amazing. It's adorable. It's fantastic.
First of all, ( kinda useless part ) I don't know why but it was the first game I decided to install with my EA Play. I didn't know anything about this game, didn't even know that it existed. But when I was looking at available games in EA Play, I saw this, read "about" section and immediately fell in love. "Solitude" is literally my lifestyle so... If you know that feeling, you know what I'm talking about.
So, back to the review. This game is a masterpiece. The story, the graphics, the soundtrack, the voice acting - I like everything about it.
First things first - The story
When you start playing this game you don't understand a thing. Literally. Why are you in the middle of the sea, why are you in the boat? And most importantly - WHY THE MAIN CHARACTER IS BLACK AS COAL WITH JUST FIRE EYES??? I guess... It's okay asking yourself about it when you launch the game for the first time ever. But the more you play SoS the more you understand it. You realize that Kay is a monster. Like her parents and brother. And the problem of it... unsurprisingly... the disregard. People only care about themselves. They don't hear others. They... They live only for themselves without realizing that there are people who need help. When Key's brother was trying to get her attention because he NEEDED HELP, she didn't really care. She was texting with her BF all the time and when the poor brother came to her like "hey, I've been bullied in school again. I'm the problem. Maybe... I should stop living?" she didn't even hear that. She was like "oh yeah yeah, hahah". And it caused brother to become a monster. He had no one to talk with. He literally had no one rely on. Even on himself. Family members had a lot of arguments too. They were yelling at each other without understanding what a problem is. They could talk about it. But instead, they chose arguing. And Key realized all of this only when she became a monster herself. She's trying to fix everything. And it's the point of the game .
Sorry If i took so long. Just had a lot of thoughts writing this. Just... Please. DON'T IGNORE OTHER PEOPLE'S PROBLEMS. JUST LISTEN TO THEM. IT'S NOT THAT HARD FOR YOU, BUT IT CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING. YOU LITERALLY CAN SAVE THEIR LIVES. PLEASE. IF "SOMEONE" TALK TO YOU, THROW YOUR PHONE OUT AND GIVE YOUR 100% ATTENTION TO "SOMEONE".
Okay, the next one is graphics. I don't really care that much about it when I play games but SoS is really delightful. It looks great. I can't complain about graphics. My eyes were satisfied.
The soundtrack. Oh boy... OST reminded me of INTERSTELLAR. Yes, I'm not kidding. Why so? The answer is simple - it's remarkable. This soundtrack makes you feel it. You feel the emotions of Kay, you feel everything.
The voice acting. . I don't know... It's impressive. Again - you feel it. You feel when the characters are happy, sad, angry, whatever. YOU. FEEL. IT. While I was writing this, I found out that a lot of people complain about it . I totally like the Kay's voice acting. It made me nervous sometimes. I just... I just felt like she was talking to me personally. I don't know why people keep saying something like "Could be 10/10 but the voice acting ruined everything". For me it was perfect. No more words to say.
And yes. YOU SHOULD PLAY THIS GAME IN HEADPHONES TO GET EARGASM
Talking about cons...
I'm a controller player For me it was the only one problem - boat controls and camera in general. When you move your camera so that your boat is back to front, it's really hard to move the boat. You press forward but it goes backwards, you press left - it goes right. So you need to change the camera angle before you can go normally.
But anyway, it's 10/10 from me.
Also, I think it's a little bit overpriced for a single-player game with ~3 hours of gameplay. Totally worth it with EA Play though.
Sorry for grammar mistakes. Hope it doesn't hurt to read my review <3