Amanita Design, (the company behind Machinarium) has confirmed that one of its older games, Samarost 2, is to be followed up by a third, Sam0rost 3. Though little has been revealed, the game is said to be in the same style as Samorost 2 and Machinarium, a puzzle point and click adventure game.
Dvorak has been booked to compose the Samorost 3 soundtrack, “I dare say it’s really beautiful. I’m excited about it,” he says. It’s been dominating his time so much that it’s been “almost impossible to perform” with his band and work in the studio all at once.
The soundtrack for Samorost 3 is to be fragmented—meaning that parts of the soundtrack are likely to go in different directions than the other parts. The game is to have different planets and these different planets, in Dvorak’s words, “have different needs.”
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
I reached the end of the Samojourney, savoring every little detail, what a superb experience, cathartic even. This game is the closest example of modern magical fairy tale, and a hymn to nature in its different forms and sounds, Amanita once again nailed it.
The story is only a marginal aspect here, it's all about being immersed for a few hours in bizarre and fascinating planets, all with different styles/influences - Post-Apocalyptic, Arabic, Asian, Amazonian, witnessing to all the charming creatures and solving environmental puzzles (never hard, on the contrary, but all logical and with a couple of them being brilliant).
The combo art style/sound design is incredible, just like the attention to detail, easily a 8+/10 game for me. It never reaches the amount of cohesion and involvement of Machinarium, but that was to be expected , since we're talking about a masterpiece that belongs to the olympus of the genre. Still, highly highly recommended if you like classic yet unique adventure games, that goes without saying really.
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. The release date is said to be in 2015 though, still a long way to go.
