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Spiritfarer – Stella awoke in the middle of the morning in the still crimson water.
Her boat drifted behind Charon, the boatman’s boatman, and stopped at the threshold separating earth and hell.
But Stella is not one of them.
She came here to be entrusted with the duty of bringing travelers to their final stopover.
A non-dangerous, space-strained obligation, but a lofty role in fate.
This is not a death game.
In Spiritfarer, every time a new traveler joins Stella’s train, there are things to take care of on the way to get them to rest: a new house to be built, new favorite food of each person must be found, and the problems of human life if there is no real end to be revealed.
Spiritfarer steers those busy jobs, not by the promise of exceptional rewards, but you – in the heels of Stella – will do it with your generosity.
Go from simple goals to difficult jobs.
First, you have to build space for each person on a small-and-then-will-grow-up ship.
If you do not care about aesthetics, you can … dispose of each house inside the allowed construction area.
In addition, there are two other reasons for you to be interested in this “puzzle” minigame: placing houses and buildings secluded will help resource activities which requires jumping quite a bit becomes easier to breathe; And the hedgehog old lady Alice would be pleased if you put her residence near the orchard.
Aside from accommodation, Spiritfarer travelers are like the author in that… love to be hugged and like food, which is fortunately able to be unconditionally accommodated.
If you want to hug, approach them and press the X button (not recommended to try in real life) to express your infinite affection.
With food, you just put the ingredients in an oven, wait and it will be ready to satisfy customers.
This try-and-do process only requires choosing one or two available ingredients, not too complicated, and maybe you will be surprised to know that some “free” grandfather invented the Cocktail Lobster.
Each of them also has its taste, prompting players to discover new recipes.
Each person’s status and personality also reveal what foods they like, such as Astrid who loves rustic food because she is a proletarian, or Summer teaches Stella the gong to help plants grow. So it can be concluded that she is only a vegetarian.
These mere meanings are small in action but great in the genitive.
As each person’s story gradually unfolds, Spiritfarer officially reveals that it is not only about death itself, but also about surrender, despair, and sometimes even waiting for his destiny to erase the pain that life brings.
Gustav’s story left the biggest impression on the author, with the image of a poppy flower adorned with a life that once lived a free, refreshing life, until being clamped down by his own body.
Then there will come a point when you realize that these travelers are not strangers.
They were relatives and were the ones that existed in the turning point of Stella’s life.
They are more than the appearance of frogs, porcupines, snakes, and hawks within the unconditional beauty of the Spiritfarer world.
The reason they boarded Stella’s ship since then had no meaning, because once the moment to say goodbye had come to an end, all memories, happy or sad, whether anxious or calm, will always remain in the mind of the rest.
Spiritfarer is rich in two things: emotion and time.
To be able to meet the needs of building/upgrading accommodation for travelers, making dishes, or any other requirements arising in their quest chain, the player will need quite a lot of resources.
Food raw materials are grown or purchased from a shop, the log must be sawn from a tree and then brought into the sawmill to be made into the wood, metal can be dug from ore (or picked) and thrown into the furnace to form ingots, or combined with limestone to make metal sheets.
In short, the player’s job is generally to find or invent these resources for pleasing travelers.
However, with the Spiritfarer able to last up to 35-40 hours of play and 5/6 of which only includes switching between these jobs, the game accidentally loses the pace and stops the player with too much. Many mechanisms focus on quantity rather than quality.
Spiritfarer gameplay has many inconvenient “but” ones.
You have a list of discovered recipes, but you can only view it in the kitchen, you cannot select a recipe to make that dish immediately, and you cannot view your favorite food. List each recipe if you forget it.
Bar cooking and laminating metal are two true “extreme” activities because you can only make up to 5 bars/sheet at each time using the machine.
Smaller activities such as fishing, watering plants, crushing stones, grinding starch… interrupted the playing rhythm unnecessarily by the slow movement of Stella.
These activities do not require high judgment or reflex skills, but building upgrades and the ship itself require significant amounts of resources, making Spiritfarer’s “mobile farm” sometimes no different to training in the phone game.
And yet, the time consuming “flows” into the explored aspect of the game.
Going out into the world in Spiritfarer brings a sense of peace in foreplay, but as later, even with fast transit bus stops open, you will either use the time while the train windsurfing Collect resources, or tap your finger on the table to wait for the game to end.
And finally, Spiritfarer’s remaining “overdue” time will probably be less uncomfortable, if the other half of the game’s content is well-designed like the moment where Stella said, goodbye travelers.
Although the author is keen to acknowledge that the characters in the game are adorable and pitiful, their appearance on the ship is not only not equal, but their story will wake up your feelings based on your experiences in real life, not based on their character-building style.
Among the little tales they revealed to Stella after she fulfilled each request, it was not difficult to complete the Spiritfarer with the impression that the travelers’ nuances consist only of the main story, the food they like and over.
They did not communicate with each other other than Stella, did not comment on the societies or landscapes of the places where Stella went, they did not recognize the new buildings that Stella built unless it was directly related to the request their.