Spiritfarer®
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GenreRelaxing/Emotional[/tr]
CampaignYes[/tr]
Game length23+ hours[/tr]
Difficulty modesN/A[/tr]
Metacritic Score84[/tr]
???? Spiritfarer® is a cozy management game about dying. As ferry master to the deceased, build a boat to explore the world, care for your spirit friends, and guide them across mystical seas to finally release them into the afterlife.
???? Story - [8]
???? Spiritfarer takes you on an emotional rollercoaster throughout the game! You start the journey as Stella with your companion Dafodill, very soon you meet no one other than ferryman himself but you discover that your journey isn't over but it's just began! You will replace the ferry master and guide people's souls to rest in a magical portal called Everdoor.
◼️ But you may ask how a normal soul can guide others? well, you have the power of Everlight, a magical being that can turn into anything you wish for. Soon you'll meet other souls with turn into animal spirits, they give you a bunch of different quests that keep you busy the whole time. Once those are finished and they are ready to go, you make the emotional decision to take them to the Everdoor and let them free!
- While finishing up with other spirits' quests, the story also shifts and tells you about the life of Stella and what happened to her.
Narrative
◼️ The narrative in Spiritfarer may be a bit confusing but is generally fun. There isn't exactly a voice-over on the characters but they each make a specific sound effect to let us understand their feeling a little bit. You are going to read a loooot of texts in this game.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2210702334
NPCs
◼️ There are tons of NPCs in this game that you can talk to, most of the islands/locations have some NPCs that has a story to themselves, For example, you can find a guy wanting to ask for a date with another NPC and you can give them advice, whether good or bad advice it's your choice to make.
????️ Gameplay - [8]
???? The game mechanics are quite interesting and easy to learn, you will find some spirits and let them come to your ship they will give you some quests that progress your story with them, while doing those you have to explore other islands, that's it! By exploring you will find other spirits and the most notable thing is you will get a bunch of different materials to do stuff with for example to cook a new food or to construct a building. There is a variety of building to make and each one is kinda connected to the other as you need for example Foundry to make Iron from its Ore to construct other buildings.
- The game is longer than you expect it, and it will take you to its end. You will keep exploring to find new stuff over and over again!
Shops/Errands
◼️ Shops and Errands kinda make a big part of the game, Once you will meet Francis he will give you some errands that require a specific item to complete, they are quite rewarding as well some of them will give you items, some will give you money to spend you are most likely need to finish those to get enough for your boat upgrade.
Shops give you options on what to do, you can buy different kinds of seed to plant, blueprints for buildings or even instead of buying you can sell what you have and earn some money perhaps hm?
Food/Fishing
◼️ Variety of fish in this game is amazing, there are tons of fish to collect and each different area has different fishes to collect, Spirits have a favorite food(s), you can't exactly give them the same food twice in a row as they won't accept it from you. After upgrading your Kitchen building you can mix 2 different ingredients that open a new world of food to make.
???? Graphics - [9]
url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4swkYvGgvNo] Spiritfarer Gameplay (PC HD) [1080p60FPS] [/url]
Zitat:
???? Art style is quite exquisite in this game, you will love whatever you see in this game no matter what. Even when you think nothing is going to top the game's lovely atmosphere you will find another area that looks much better than previous ones!
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2209012625
It has some cartoonish style in some points as well, Overall it's well-drawn at any point.
???????? Soundtrack/Audio - [9]
url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZTKFiCMA-o] Spiritfarer (Complete Original Soundtrack) - Max LL [/url]
Zitat:
???? But the real hero here is the sound; while there is no voice-over for characters, you will feel their feelings and emotions!
The soundtracks make you go emotional on some points that you ever want to even cry as your journey with that spirit is over now! I cannot describe the music in words so you just have to listen to the soundtrack that I'm going to link above.
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Story/Campaign - 8 Amazing[/tr]
Gameplay/Controls - 8 Amazing[/tr]
Graphics - 9 Masterpiece[/tr]
Sound/Music - 9 Masterpiece[/tr]
Replayability - 6 Good[/tr]
Achievements - 8 Amazing[/tr]
???? Conclusion
???? Overall I enjoyed Spiritfarer, more than I thought I would! When I started this game I was under the impression that it's going to be another short game with a bunch of little mini-games, but it proved me wrong I wanted more of its characters when I finished with them, I couldn't make myself to let them go...
When you genuinely feel sad that a GAME is over, I'd say that game did things right and it's going to live on my memories for a while. But the point of the game is to learn to let go....... So i guess I've failed!
