These offer an eye-opening perspective on climate change and our attitude towards the planet, and give expert insight into the places and species seen in the game. The beating heart of Beyond Blue lies within the game's mini-documentary videos.Īs you progress through Beyond Blue's chapters you begin to unlock videos that provide insightful information about the state of the Earth's oceans.
You can feel the good intentions of the game through its dedication to realism and its creature database, but it's muddied by lacklustre storytelling. There's even a storyline about Mirai's grandmother having Alzheimer's disease, but it never goes anywhere. It briefly touches upon the devastating effects of deep-sea mining and how certain pollutants are making the sea a toxic environment for wildlife, but then quickly moves on. There are some artful moments but both its environments and storytelling stay one-note throughout the three hour run time, with several plotlines gasping for space to breathe. It never felt like the ocean was teeming with life. Although its ocean is more realistic than Abzu's magical dream-world and Subnautica's alien planet, even it's most active environments felt empty. Unfortunately, many of Beyond Blue's dives feel a little uninspired. One level plunges you into an interconnected system of deep-sea trenches with no map, leaving you to explore its rocky corridors with exciting trepidation. I understand that open water is an integral layer of the ocean, but dedicating a whole dive to essentially an empty space left me a little disappointed, especially as there's only a handful of chapters. But then, another level was just a blue haze of open ocean with nothing in sight. The environments wildly vary in terms of successfully capturing the wonder of the sea. (Image credit: E-Line Media) Murky waters
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