![]() ![]() If you bring him to the ecstatic mood he plays a lovely flute melody around the ship that lifts the spirits of your other guests. You will need to feed them and build a unique house for them, and then at times, they will ask you to take them to certain places from their past so that they can resolve issues that haunted them throughout their life.Įach character has their own likes and dislikes, Atul is a handyman and when his mood is low he fixes the boat for you, but in turn, all the banging will upset your other passengers. ![]() These characters live with you on your boat, asking you to perform tasks for them. Your aunt Alice is a kindly old lady represented as a hedgehog, her frame rounded and plump, whereas lothario Giovanni is a handsome, charismatic and lazy Lion. There is the glamorous and haughty Gwen, your childhood friend represented as an elegant deer and your favourite uncle Atul as a joyful fat frog. ![]() Each one is exquisitely drawn and perfectly represents the broad character type they represent. Your passengers are represented by a wonderful cast of anthropomorphic animals. This process of building and moving things around to achieve the most efficient use of space really creates a sense of ownership over your vessel with a setup that feels particularly unique. There’s limited space and each building has a unique shape that you will need to fiddle around with to maximise the number of units you can have on it at any one time. Your boat structure itself even takes the form of a sort of tetromino puzzle. However, it also manages to blend a number of different genres together including puzzles, platforming, even some metroidvania style upgrading of systems allowing you to access areas previously closed off to you. Spiritfarer is largely a management sim with you gathering resources to build crafting stations on your boat to craft further resources and structures. He also bequeaths you a boat that will be your home and the vessel upon which you will house the lost spirits. Spiritfarer may well be about death, but it’s filled with light and joy.Ĭharon passes to you the Everlight, a multifunctional tool that will allow you to perform all the tasks your various passengers will ask of you. In contrast, Stella is a young, vibrant woman instantly setting the tone for what is to come. He is a huge, hooded, dark, and foreboding character with wizened claw-like hands. The meeting between Stella and Charon is stark. The first character you meet is Charon, and there are other characters from that mythos too, but as someone who is largely agnostic, I never felt like this was a game about specific beliefs, rather one about warmth and love. Your task will be to find them in the world, bring them to your vessel, and keep them comfortable until they are ready to move on. You play as Stella, accompanied by her cat Daffodil as the newly appointed Spiritfarer charged with bringing dying souls to the afterlife. Spiritfarer from Thunder Lotus takes this concept and weaves a stunningly beautiful game about death and the journey each individual takes to reach that final acceptance. And when it does come, the best we can hope for is that we have lived a life filled with love and can go at peace with ourselves. Death is an inevitable end to life it comes for us all eventually, no-one can escape it, no matter how hard we try. For me personally, it has brought into a focus far more acutely just how short the time can be with the people that we love. If you will allow me to be maudlin for a moment, 2020 has been an awful, awful year for many. ![]()
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