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Not knowing beforehand that Burly Men At Sea is a game about multiple endings, I took my time and must have taken about half an hour to complete the story the first time (I got stuck on an octopus type thing – literally). Other than locating each possible route, there’s zero difficulty as except for a boat race, the puzzles offer no challenge, and there’s no threat of a game over. The choices in the game are often quite subtle, but doesn’t give that much room for experimentation – it’s either one or the other.

Another path will have you throw a branch to a rock-like behemoth or ignore it and get back in your boat. In one scene, you may decide to wait in the mouth of a whale to reach its destination or exit through its blowhole ( steady).

Like any adventurer(s), you experiment and interact with items. The dialogue makes up for this and is short, but well written, but without a walkthrough, it’s easy to miss those last couple of endings as the trophy hints aren’t helpful enough. Well, even the latter isn’t really a thing, but you need to be specific in the paths you take when unlocking everything and there’s so much repetition that it looks like you’re doing the same thing again, but it’s a new story.

Simplicity is the key here as there aren’t any complicated menus to navigate or combos to learn instead, a few areas are there for exploring and being in the right place at the right time. Sorry, Stephen Fry.įrom the first village port, the brothers three hop into their little boat in search of an adventure and a yarn to spin around the warmth of a nautical Starbucks.īurly Men At Sea employs a little point and click, and you use an on-screen cursor to select NPCs, objects and points of interest, while the left and right analogue sticks move the three (all at the same time, the lemmings) or pan the camera to the left and right respectively.įirst impressions are excellent as the art design is beautiful with a simple style, yet engaging enough for you to appreciate the characters. It doesn’t matter though, as the overall presentation is brilliant and the best storybooks are read, not acted out by someone else. Regrettably, Tasty, Tree and Your Mum’s Got A didn’t make the cut.Įach brother has a range of dialogue responses representative of their name as well as their actions, but when it comes to the conversation, there isn’t a choice as it’s text-only – no voice acting. There are three brothers in total: Hasty Beard, Steady Beard and Brave Beard. It’s a tight ship of three but fear not as they’re siblings so know each other pretty well and play to each other’s strengths. More often than not, you’ll be repeating the same paths each time, though altering your response fractionally to open a new direction for the narrative. You could argue that this is more an interactive storybook than a game, a bit like Storm Boy to some extent, as you take three brothers on an adventure for a story to tell their peers (or some charlatan hack writer, looking to steal your tales). Though you can get a platinum trophy out of it if you’re up for some grinding, therefore patience is required. To dismiss Burly Men At Sea as storage filler would be cruel as it’s a pleasant game, but probably best suited as a mobile game based on the simplicity of the controls and the presentation.

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The game itself is as ancient as El Mar as it was a freebie from PS+ many many months ago and though I played it for a bit, it was left on the bottom of the sea bed while some faster, much prettier ships arrived.īut as a result of cleaning up my hard drive (not a police investigation), I wanted to free up some space so other than demos and 100s of games I’ve platinumed (yeah, right), the goal was to finish a few before deleting.

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So, are we thinking the HMS Beagle or RMS Titanic? Cue theme music… Burly Men At Sea PS4 Review

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PowerWash Simulator Review: Be Like WaterĪ life at sea, is not for me, but the brief adventures touched upon in Burly Men At Sea, from Brain & Brain Co., are often charming and with a touch of enchantment that makes this a promising title.