Set in a gorgeous underwater world, players take on the role of Merryn in her quest to find her father. With a rickety submarine, Merryn will explore the vast ocean depths in this side-scrolling Metroidvania-style adventure game. Song of the Deep delivers unique gameplay in a tale of love, heartbreak, and triumph.
Story:
Merryn waits all night for her father to return from his fishing voyage. He never does. After a vivid dream showing her father trapped under the sea, Merryn is determined to save him. This unlikely heroine builds a small submarine from spare parts and sets off to rescue him. Along the way, she’ll make friends, discover lost civilizations and ruins, and upgrade her submarine to explore even deeper. The terrain and monsters of the deep are daunting, but Merryn’s courage, intelligence, and love for her father will help her overcome adversity.
Features:
Explore a fantastic non-linear interactive underwater world, from ruins to boneyards to gardens. Every corner of the ocean offers a new surprise.
Upgrade your submarine with new abilities to access new areas of the sea, and combine your abilities in surprising ways like catching a torpedo with your claw arm.
Outwit, outmaneuver, and battle creatures along the way, from lantern jellies to giant bosses.
Experience an unforgettable journey: A powerful tale about a daughter defying impossible odds to search for her father.
Info that should be on Store Page...
About the game:
Where does the name come from?
The title comes from the story of the game. Without giving too much away, you play a female protagonist named Merryn. Your dad used to sing you songs at night to put you to sleep, those songs were his way of telling you stories about his life's adventures of when he was younger. As you grew, you started to doubt those stories and the songs stopped. Well, your dad goes out to the ocean one morning, you wait all night but he never comes back... Unafraid, you pilot a submarine vehicle but as you go deeper into the depths of the sea, you find that all your dad's stories of horror are true. Your one goal is to find your dad but with the many perils of te unknown, can you survive?
Features:
Single-player only - Insomniac is focused on giving you the best possible single player experience. Don't expect co-op or any mp modes.
Open world - the game will have a vast ocean for you to discover. Emphaisis on exploration, secrets and adventure
Fast Travel - because the world is so huge, fast travel will be available to avoid frustration of backtracking
Sink or Swim - You can leave your sub whenever but you will be more vulnerable while doing so
8 Core Abilities - Abilities to aid you on your quest throighout your journey. These will help you reach new places you couldn't before so when you go back somewhere who knows what you will find.
Upgrades - Each of your abilities are fully upgradable and each upgrrade drastically changes the affect of your ability.
Bosses - there will be a number of mini-bosses and main bosses. These will mainly be creatures inspired by mythical legends.
Full controller support - The game will support Xbox, PS4, and Steam controllers
The game will be 50% exploration and 50% combat. This is Insomniac Studios first attempt at developing a metroidvania type game.
If you are interested in finding out more out the games lore, you may be happy to know that a paperback/digital novel will be released alongside the game. The book is written by Insomniac Studios Chief Creative Director, Brian Hastings.
Hope this helped
EDIT: Yeah it's up on Steam under new releases but it still shows as pre-purchase so it's not out on Steam, yet.
EDIT: So a release is out? Guess the pre-purchase thing on Steam is in error and the game itself is available.
Last edited by JBeckman on Mon, 11th Jul 2016 19:14; edited 1 time in total
I installed the sacred yarr of the seas and played for a while (Cthulhu bless small ISOs), 'tis quite a pleasant surprise. A charming metroidvania-ish adventure with very pretty art-style and big focus on exploring and finding secrets, unlocking areas with the right equipment and so on.
Nothing out of the ordinary of course, and it's clearly low budget-y, but it's also a very relaxing experience (dat music) wrapped in a well-oiled formula, which never hurts. It is needed from time to time :')
My only complaint is *shakes fist*
h0rnyfavn wrote:
KB+mouse controls suck......but I got used to them in time.. but they still suck..especially the way they utilize mouse controls..
This! I don't know what they were they thinking, but no matter how you rebind 'em, the controls never feel right. I had to grab yer derpad and face the harsh scenario, as expected (and as often happens with 2D platformers) that's definitely the recommended way to play without having to resort to the divinity cursing xD
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