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Recordkeeping: Queen of Seas 2 COMPLETE
Aug. 21st, 2018 10:01 amThis was an interesting little game. As usual, the plot is completely disconnected from what you're actually doing.
The plot is that as a good member of your village and a true believer in the goddess Yemanjá, you want to help prepare for a village festival but the entire village is traumatized by various losses and deaths. You take quests from them, solve their problems and get them back in the festival mood.
You do this by, uh, platforming underwater. You put on a big clunky diving suit and stomp around underwater a while, collecting coins and pages of ... something? possibly your motivational speech? ... and then you come back up out of the water and deliver the speech when you have all the pages.
It's a relaxing, soothing sort of game with some very chunky DOS-game-esqe pixel art. If you have fond memories of shareware titles of the mid-to-late nineties, you're probably going to enjoy the visuals and music here. The game starts out feeling quite difficult, but upgrading your suit soon has you zipping around the seafloor double-jumping and throwing nets over sea life and just generally storming the levels.
There is a bug or glitch you can exploit, where if you take a quest and then use your "memories" box in the ship's hold to replay an earlier level, you finish the quest you were on. This can be useful if you're stuck on a harder level -- just pop down to the hold and replay an easier level instead. It can feel a little cheaty and it might get patched, but I'm not here to judge anyone. It's not your college exams or resume. You're not hurting anyone. Cheat as you like.
Anyway I found this pretty engaging and it gave me a morning's worth of entertainment plus it got me researching a goddess I'd never heard of while music from the game looped in my head. All missions accomplished, I think. The devs can be proud of this one.
The plot is that as a good member of your village and a true believer in the goddess Yemanjá, you want to help prepare for a village festival but the entire village is traumatized by various losses and deaths. You take quests from them, solve their problems and get them back in the festival mood.
You do this by, uh, platforming underwater. You put on a big clunky diving suit and stomp around underwater a while, collecting coins and pages of ... something? possibly your motivational speech? ... and then you come back up out of the water and deliver the speech when you have all the pages.
It's a relaxing, soothing sort of game with some very chunky DOS-game-esqe pixel art. If you have fond memories of shareware titles of the mid-to-late nineties, you're probably going to enjoy the visuals and music here. The game starts out feeling quite difficult, but upgrading your suit soon has you zipping around the seafloor double-jumping and throwing nets over sea life and just generally storming the levels.
There is a bug or glitch you can exploit, where if you take a quest and then use your "memories" box in the ship's hold to replay an earlier level, you finish the quest you were on. This can be useful if you're stuck on a harder level -- just pop down to the hold and replay an easier level instead. It can feel a little cheaty and it might get patched, but I'm not here to judge anyone. It's not your college exams or resume. You're not hurting anyone. Cheat as you like.
Anyway I found this pretty engaging and it gave me a morning's worth of entertainment plus it got me researching a goddess I'd never heard of while music from the game looped in my head. All missions accomplished, I think. The devs can be proud of this one.
