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YoY: NEW! My Rating: 9.1
Spiritfarer is a beautiful game, in every sense of the word. Obviously the visuals are gorgeous and the music is wonderful, but the story, characters, the setting, and everything else is just beautiful. I genuinely can't think of a better word to describe this game. Touching, emotional, bittersweet, relaxing, they all apply, as do so many other adjectives, but this is a beautiful game, plain and simple. While the game's basic premise is that you're the new person in charge of ferrying the spirits of the dead to the afterlife, the real core of the experience are the characters that you spend time with on your ship.
Spiritfarer can be absolutely heartbreaking as an experience at times, which all stems from you spending time and learning new things about the characters that join you on your journey. As they learn to accept their deaths, you must accompany them on their final journey onward, and it's never easy to let go of these characters you've learned so much about and become attached to. It's an experience that will stay with me for a long time. Of course, the game has so much more to offer than that, like developing your ship, traveling around the game's world discovering new locations, completing quests for various people, and sometimes just sitting down to watch the sunset.
Last edited by Darashiva - on 25 November 2022
