Song of the Deep

The sense of wonder and excitement of diving deeper into the ocean as tranquil music plays in the background helped me forget about firing missiles are the same generic enemies over and over. Overall Song of the Deep is an epicundersea odyssey.

Song of the Deep doesn’t simply shine in one place more than another because there are so many elements that all come together to make this game truly fantastic. The world is beautiful, the soundtrack is calming, the story is intriguing and the gameplay is simply addicting. The only complaint I would have, other than the control issue mentioned early, is that towards the end of the game I started to lose some interest because the combat got terribly difficult.

At around six hours long, Song of the Deep doesn't have enough time to become a disaster, and there are redeeming aspects of it. The character, the voiceover, the presentation are all a change of pace from the video game status quo, and the sense of discovery the first half offers is welcome. But it's hard to shake the feeling of a game with potential that never quite figures out how to deliver on it.