![]() ![]() Abzu begs players to explore its magical undersea world with these visuals and there are plenty of rewards to be found if the mission is taken. From the very start Abzu manages to entrance with its graphics. Everything Abzu lacks in challenge and directness it more than makes up for in memorability. However, this simplicity isn't a knock on Abzu's overall quality. A few surprises and secrets can be uncovered in Abzu but for the it's mostly very straight forward. The diver travels from area to area without fear of losing oxygen and just the player takes in the ocean behind them. Abzu gives exactly what the player puts into it which is unconventional but understandable and welcome. There's no real challenge to speak of and all the storytelling is ambient as opposed to anything direct. ![]() Abzu is an adventure game in every sense of the word. Players are put in control of a nameless, genderless deep sea diver and tasked with following the words of Finding Nemo's Dory to the letter, "just keep swimming." There's only one goal in Abzu and it's to go. Related: Nintendo Finally Gets with the Times and Lets Players Monetize Gameplay Videos This itself is questionable as Abuzu is more suited to indulgent play sessions than anything that can be picked up and played on-the-go. Even so the unique Abzu is still a journey worth taking even if it can sometimes feels more like an interactive screensaver than a video game. There are no special features in the Switch version besides the obvious of making the game portable. The contradictory Abzu first made it its way to gamers' screens on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One two years ago and now Abzu has come to Nintendo Switch. Most off-putting of all, Abzu is a video game where there's very little in the way of traditional gaming mechanics. ![]() Abzu is also all about the narrative journey but there's very little "actual" story. The world feels expansive and breathless in the moment but on reflection the experience is actually quite short. This is due in large part to Abzu being a wealth of contradictions. Developer Giant Squid's Abzuis just as hard to quantify now as it was when it originally released in 2016. ![]()
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