Azurefish
Go underwater in Lucas Paahk's stunning new exploration-centric sandbox game about one lovely fish and one big, beautiful ocean. Collect tokens, run races, perform acrobatic tricks and uncover secrets in a truly stunning oceanic environment. Though lacking any sort of story or overarching goal, Azurefish provides a relaxing, atmospheric experience that you can really sink yourself into.
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Ecco the dolphin?
More like Aquaria!
The only thing I don't really like is that there are about five gold coins I can't seem to lay my flippers on. That and the fact that swimming away from the Catopus-things after having spent a gem makes you lose the gem (well, not the racing catopus).
It's beautiful, and I love that about it... yet it felt a bit claustrophobic. The one thing I liked least about William and Sly was trying to reach the goodies hidden in dark caves and searching for secret routes to the goodies; William and Sly had more gameplay than that. Azurefish seems to be almost all about finding those goodies, so I gave up quickly. The time I did spend playing was enjoyable all the same. I hope to see more titles by Lucas Paakh.
I don't get it. Why is 1/3 of the gamescene hidden behind plants and caves? I understand a few secret places, but this is waaay too much of a good thing. Half of the time, you have no idea where you are or which way you can move. That makes an otherwise somewhat nice game terrible. In my opinion. :)
Collecting Particles to Fill Gems
Purple
Jump through the purple hoops in the air. This was the first one I found, and it was rather intuitive. Can you jump? Yes. There are hoops to jump through? Then try it!
Yellow
Find the pipes with wheel valves, spin the wheels until the pipe opens. Also intuitive, especially if you have sound on so you can hear the clicking as you swim by the wheel.
Blue
Pop the "Balloon Fish"
It took me forever to figure this one out. I'd noticed that I'd run into a round fish now and then that would be batted away if i swam into it. I did not notice that it gets larger after doing this, nor did I ever bother to hit it more than once or twice. Finally I decided to look at the achievement list, and at that point I realized this must be what gets the blue particles.
Totally lovely to play! Love the music, the atomsphere, the games... all of it!
I am really having trouble with the acrobatics challenge. I'm driving myself crazy.
This a beautiful game though. :D
This game has excellent controls and it is beautifully developed - definite fun to play.
Graphics are utterly beautiful. And, sadly, if ever there was a game that demonstrated that a game needs more than beautiful graphics, this was it.
Of the "things to do", they boil down to Collect all the X, where all the X are hidden behind bits of scenery; or play the three challenges, where in order to replay any one, you have to swim around doing repetitive tasks. The challenges themselves were quite fun - I don't like races particularly, but the other two were fine.
It's a lovely setting, but there basically isn't anything interesting to do there. The balloon fish are so cute...
I don't want to have to pop them!
I don't know about you, but I got slightly dizzy while playing it, maybe it's just me...
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