![]() ![]() The kind that games do better than just about anything else. It was a total disaster, but the good kind. He was my best friend and also my last, as he brought my forever to a lightning-quick end, battering my frozen, near-immobile suit with bone-crunching blows. In the process, I lost the shark, but found a new ocean-dwelling BFF in the form of a colossal eel monster. At that point, I realized I was already fish food, so I decided to make a break for the nearest vessel piece, dimly illuminated by a hazy shaft of light. I'm pretty sure it was a great white, but it may as well have been a hammerhead given the way I was immediately catapulted deeper into this new environment's swirling oblivion. Then a shark punched me in the back of the head. I couldn't find a jet stream of water to get me back more habitable depths, either. I'd leveled up my ability to withstand pressure, but not temperature. Beckoning blackness, swaying deep sea vegetation, suffocating silence.īut then my field of view started fogging, and that's when I realized Death's cold, scaly hand had to come to claim me. I then marveled at the alluring mystery of the scene before me. To its credit, my suit dutifully persevered, cushioning me from 40 bars of pressure - its absolute limit at that point. Unfortunately, while riding the high of my triumph over a weird chitinous wheel creature guarding my first water vessel piece, I miscalculated and, er, dove off a cliff. Through combat (which is still admittedly very floaty and imprecise at this point) you can level up your suit to withstand greater depths and colder temperatures. The most memorable moment of my FarSky playthrough was probably my own death. But then you descend deeper, and it gets darker. ![]() Water burbles and flows, various (though regrettably few in number) species of undersea life flit about, and sunbeams pierce a sloshing ceiling, dangling memories of freedom just out of reach. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.įarSky is still rather early, but it's already got atmosphere down pat. ![]()
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