It's a narrative that can be enjoyed in these sort of broad strokes, but there are plenty of things to interpret and decipher for those seeking more definite answers. At the core of it is your relationship with the Great White Shark, but it also tells the story of who you as the Diver are, and in a greater sense it's about ourselves and our relationship to nature and the oceans. There's a story element here as well, and it's told in a way that will let you interpret what happens. You propel yourself forward by pressing the right trigger and you're able to use a few strong leg kicks to gain speed by pressing X. You can choose to invert both controls and camera independently, and even though we tend to play every game normally we actually wound up feeling more comfortable playing this with inverted controls (while setting the camera to normal). We feel the need to dedicate some words in this review for the controls, as while it may seem very straight forward, clearly a lot of work has gone into making it feel just right, as you're able to perform loops moving both towards and away from the camera. It may be orchestral, but it's never overpowering and goes really well with the underwater setting. The music composed by Austin Wintory (Journey, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate) does a great job of setting the mood.
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You're never frustrated and instead your free to interpret your surroundings, take in the views, and explore secrets. There isn't much of a challenge in progressing, but it really isn't that sort of game either. Finding a little drone to help you unlock a passage or interacting with a couple of objects to unlock a gate. Progressing is mainly down to solving some fairly simple and straight forward puzzles. There is a similar structure where you're always clearly presented with what you need to do next in order to progress, but off to the sides there are secrets to unlock and sights to see. Influences from both Flower and Journey can be spotted here, and not just in the art (Nava was art director on both of those titles), but there's also something about the pacing and mechanics that reminds us of those games, particularly of Flower. It is difficult to review this game without mentioning some of the games that Matt Nava, the creative director of Abzû, has been involved with. It's a neat touch, and we spent more time than we expected in this mode. There are even special spots where you can sit and "meditate" allowing you to follow the behaviours of the various animals in that particular area without having to control the Diver. It's the sort of game you'll want to show off to everyone you know, regardless of age and gaming prowess. It looks gorgeous, particularly in motion, and there is something soothing about the whole experience.
The first time you paddle past a sea anemone that retracts its arms will no doubt make you smile. You can catch a ride with some of the bigger ones and you can interact with them by sending out a beacon, which allows you to swim along with them and even jump into the air with some of them as you swim along for the ride. All of them beautifully recreated, and all of them moving in a way that comes across and organic and lifelike. There are turtles, dolphins, sharks, whales, squids and massive schools of smaller fish. Using simple shapes more than a hundred species of marine life have been recreated in great numbers to populate the areas you explore in Abzû.
Abzû recreates that experience and it does so brilliantly. If you've ever been lucky enough to snorkle or dive in places where there is plenty of life you'll know what we're talking about. It's so alien, yet it's something we can all relate to. There is something truly magical about marine life.
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