ABZÛ is the first game of Giant Squid Studios, which is led by Matt Nava who was the art director for award winning games Journey and Flower and you can clearly see the artistic influence these previous games have on this title. Personally, I think that this game is an amazing although simple game, which manages to capture your heart without a single line of dialogue and it's those type of visual cues that I find are not only intriguing but rare in modern gaming.
In the game you not only explore the depths of the ocean but you get a chance to meet known, rare and even extinct sea life as you solve puzzles and swim around. According to Giant Squid Studios on their website: ¨The name references a concept from the oldest mythologies; it is the combination of the two ancient words AB, meaning ocean, and ZÛ, meaning to know. ABZÛ is the ocean of wisdom¨.
And that's just what this game is, with its vast category of marine and sea life I found myself discovering creatures I had never seen before much less heard of. This game takes you by the hand and shows you the vast and intense depths of the ocean in a way I have never seen in any other ocean based game. I know, i'm being redundant but I simply cannot get over how amazingly gorgeous this game is and yet it´s visuals are nowhere near as intriguing as its soundtrack created by Austin Wintory which takes you all the more deeper into the vast ocean levels of the game.
All in all I cannot begin to explain to you how amazing this game is it's something you have to experience yourself and it's definitely one of those games that's too amazing to miss. It´s available not only for Playstation 4, but for XBox One and Steam. So what are you waiting for? Go check it out now!
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