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Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas (2013)

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X205TA Gaming- Oceanhorn : Monster of Uncharted Seas. Oceanhorn is a tribute to Nintendo's Zelda games and it shows so much that you'd think it was meant to be a straight rip-off. Unlike Ripoff games, this was created with a lot of care and attention to details. It plays like a Zelda game, it feels like a Zelda game but it's not a Zelda game. Playing it on the X205TA feels a little like playing a Nintendo game on a Giant 3DS with the 3d turned off. lol

The little ASUS EeeBook X205TA-US01-BL has difficulty running it at higher resolutions as the game requires a lot of GPU intensive effects (lighting model, reflections, particle effects, varied textures) so you have to lower the resolution and details to get an enjoyable framerate. Still, as you can see, at 800 x 600 it still looks quite nice.

I haven't spent a lot of time with it yet (just picked it up at 20% off from GOG.COM yesterday - hooray for DRM free!) but what I have played feels very familiar and quite enjoyable.

Oceanhorn is an iOS port but makes the move to PC nicely. I can give it a bad mark though for keyboard play. Because it's a lot of narrow ups and downs, the isometric perspective doesn't work well for WASD controls. You fall off everything unless you're carefully tapping.

Still.. if you use your controller it works like a charm.
Have a look! :)

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