The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human
"While its story may be a case study in ludo-narrative dissonance, The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human provides a unique underwater take on metroidvania design with some great bosses."
Metroidvania fit: High Fit. You're a submarine, so no platforming, but otherwise it's very much a Metroidvania experience
- Developer
- YCJY Games
- Time to Beat
- ~5 hours
- Release Date
- 2016/01/19
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The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human
"While its story may be a case study in ludo-narrative dissonance, The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human provides a unique underwater take on metroidvania design with some great bosses."
Metroidvania Breakdown
There are occasionally points where RNG can mess you up, but overall, there's depth to strategy and the Metroidvania upgrades change things up significantly.
No ''platforming'' but you do occasionally have to be agile when dodging objects and traps - it's not particularly difficult though
Eventually the game just tells you where most of its treasures are, but you have to survive until that point, and exploration is heavily rewarded to get you to that end.
There are no puzzles in this game
''The Adventure of the Last Human'' invites a whole host of possibilities, but at least in the surface level story presentation, there are only a few narrative beats that invite interesting discussion. There may be more beneath the surface with the lore you find however
Atmosphere is clearly a main draw with this game, and the graphics combine with the music quite well to give Aquatic Adventure a beautiful feel
The second part of the atmosphere equation, Aquatic Adventure's sounds immerse you as much as its visual waters
The experience is overall pretty short with few meaningful choices to vary the experience. There are some bonus modes though that can help to extend gameplay