When you arrive, it’s only a short day from when the entire valley will be flooded by a collapsing dam. There you’ll find quests and mysteries to unravel, a handful of people with stories of their own, and remnants of the past to unearth. It’s a joy to mix and match all of the items you collect and make each page something of your own.Įventually you arrive in a valley, and this becomes the open world area that you’ll spend the majority of your time in. Each page represents an area in the world, and everything you record and collect-polaroid photos, sketches, stamps, doodles, notes, and more-becomes an item you can place on the scrapbook page. Memories have magic powers, and by sacrificing five sense memories, you can create a protective gem for your journey ahead.Īfter a short time in the village you set out on your bike, documenting the world with a camera, a sound recorder, and a scrapbook. The world of Season has many elements of the real world, but the rules that govern it are much more spiritual.
You can explore the protagonist’s bedroom, learn a little about her, and then you perform a memory ritual with her and her mother. Season opens with you preparing to leave Caro, a village up in the mountains. And, at least conceptually, not too much has changed there. My original take on the game was that it was a sort-of modern-day indie take on Breath of the Wild, with your protagonist riding her bicycle around a large valley and documenting the culture within. In that span of time, the main character’s look has changed, the final product has received some promotion from Playstation, and most notably, the development team (Scavenger Studios) has suffered through some serious workplace controversy. I called it my game of the show and I’ve been quietly looking forward to it ever since.įast-forward three years later, and Season has finally arrived as a finished work. Similarly, playing Season was the last time I felt like I’d discovered the next big game no one knew about yet. That was the last big convention I went to before COVID became a real concern in the US.
I first played Season three years ago at PAX East 2020.
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