Call from the depths

Often I think about what I have achieved in my travels through virtual worlds. Somewhere I erected cities, somewhere I saved the world from evil, and somewhere I created my own reality. Countless games and every time I look back at my achievements, I see only a drop in the sea. Such thoughts do not upset me at all, but on the contrary encourage me to actively explore the virtual space. During the next search for a new game world, I came across a gloomy and depressive Blood Orange. To tell you the truth, I did not expect that a simple pixel gunpowder would be so atmospheric and alarming, and the ending of the story would make me look thoughtfully at the titras creeping on the screen for a long time.

Sometimes the past is returning. The heroine of this story, named Nora, went to her goal for too long. Boring years of college, long -term oceanology courses, complex physical training and money collecting for a private expedition. Since childhood, she dreamed of being a diver and exploring the majestic sunken temples. Photograph underwater inhabitants, admire the destroyed frescoes and engage in scientific discoveries. For the sake of her dreams, Nora left a measured city life, said goodbye to relatives and tore all the ties with numerous friends. She thought that having chopped off the connection with civilization, she would be given the long -awaited happiness, but this turned out to be only a deceptive adventure.

After six months of wanderings details along the river basin of the Amazon, Nora desperate, and her mind began to slowly fade away. Just think, she diluted half his life for the trip of her dreams, but in the end she did not achieve anything. Again, getting into the debt hole, the reproaches of the mother and the final contempt of the scientific community – after this about the career of an oceanologist, one could forget completely. But one of the days of our heroine, luck was still smiling. As a result of another immersion, Nora came across a huge underwater temple with many frescoes and fragments of ceramics. The girl could not believe her happiness and began painstaking to collect materials for her scientific dissertation. She already imagined a brilliant future as a famous researcher, but this was not destined to come true. Many treasures and the remains of ancient civilizations are buried under water, but do not forget that there is always someone to look after them. What he saw in gloomy depths has forever changed the life of a hole and now the girl will never be the same.

Before us is a gloomy quest in underwater setting. Our task is to study underwater ruins and photograph the inhabitants of the depths. We will have a small ship with a red room for the manifestation of pictures and a satellite phone, which is simultaneously the plot engine and our conservation point. Management in the game is simple and all that will be required to look for new aisles, collect quest objects and solve simple puzzles in the form of tanks or combinations of codes. Oxygen is limited, so we will have to occasionally rise to the surface in special points. Also, do not forget about the unfriendly inhabitants of the depths. We should behave quietly and look for ways to retreat, because no one will stand on ceremony.

Graphics in the game are minimalistic, but at the same time atmospheric. Images of underwater inhabitants really cause a feeling of anxiety, and the psychedelic soundtrack sits in gloomy thoughts. The plot in the game is quite specific and is revealed closer to the finale, but I remember the trip to underwater catacombs. Particularly strong for me was a bad ending, which I consider canonical. The set of emotions that I received as a result of passage was completely worth the time spent.

Blood Orange is a specific horror and not everyone will like it, but I, as a lover of experimental projects, have this game. The timing here is only about 40 minutes, but during this time the plot manages to open completely. I will not call the local story of a brilliant and I will not try to compare it with other projects since these are completely different things. But I can say from myself that what I saw made an impression on me. I caught the remote wibes Signalis and again caught fire to the idea to return to the cold hug of Elster, and this is worth a lot. Blood Orange is a short underwater horror, where not vile creatures act as monsters, but an inflamed mind and a broken heart.