The game is divided into four main areas along with an opening and ending section that are all environmentally themed and contain some fairly simplistic puzzles required to proceed to each new chapter. Of course those craving to uncover all the hidden secrets submerged beneath the depths can add another two hours to that estimate. There are no real quests or objectives aside from making it to the end, which can be easily done in 2-3 hours if you plow through. Of course that’s assuming we are even on Earth, but seeing as how the developers have gone to great lengths to include and call out by name a majority of known sea life, that’s a safe bet.Ībzu isn’t as much as game as it is an adventure of discovery. Even by the end of the game there are no clear-cut answers only possibilities that you may be the sole survivor of some ancient alien race somehow linked to the Egyptians. Our genderless hero could even be an alien. The rest of your attire could be a wetsuit of sorts, a suspicion backed up by a pair of elongated swim fins…assuming that’s not his/her real anatomy. You are this mysterious and strange looking swimmer wearing something that looks like a helmet that contains a black face and cat-like eyes. Much like Journey, Abzu begins with no introduction and no story relevance. Juxtaposed against the desolate barrenness of the desert, Abzu is a world teeming with life, both plant and aquatic, yet somehow manages to instill that same level of character/player isolation throughout most of its four-hour run. If anyone was wondering why the classic PS3 game, Journey was so dry and sandy we can blame art director and Giant Squid studio founder, Matt Nava who was apparently hoarding ALL the water for use in his new game Abzu.

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