(Spoilers ahead)
This game starts strong, with the crash to the big wave with a great song, I liked that.
I really liked that the song indicates what is going to happen, from danger, to chill and explore, to what will happen, to danger again, big fan of this. :D
It’s a short map but it’s nice and clear in some indications due the scanner and journal. Things I didn’t like about the map, one was the mirror/antenna that burns the wood at the distance only because when I was close to it, the mirror didn’t give me the option to interact with it because I was in front and not in the back, so would be nice if you could move it from any side of it. I thought it was a prop to decorate the mountain and that when the heat came, if I put a flower on it, the wood would burn haha
The other was the boulder to unlock the library, I knew I had to use it to broke the door, but each time I put it so the big wave could break it, didn’t work because I put the rock too close to the door, only worked when I put it to the start of the road, I know this is more on me but I felt while playing that near should also work a little bit.
Outside of that, I really like the way to point out the safe zones of the wave, the green parts are clear and feels nice when you are under the wave, the interactions of the map with the player, like the water mill stopping when you are in the way or the boat in the water. The transition from volcano to big wave to cloudy it’s a nice touch how smooth it goes with the song. How the ship ends up in the extreme of the map for the wave, the effect of heat due the volcano, those small details are great.
The other thing I didn’t like was the respawns, the 1st time I died to the wave, each time I respawned I got instakilled due the wave, somehow putting an object while dead made the spawn work again, I was trapped like 4-5 deaths, then again happened when I wanted to get out of the shelter, and in general, getting out of the shelter was a bit difficult due the spawn and timing the tide and getting out, I got a bit frustrated due this because I wanted to end the game and I didn’t want to refresh the page.
The story was nice, I liked the small texts and the ending, oh and I don’t know if it’s intended that when you scan near places with text, you can see them through the walls or ground.
I’m happy I got to use the world's random objects since I was carrying them around almost all the time haha and nice to see no fall damage, I could just jump around
I didn’t mind most of the wait for the cycle moments because the song was great.
In general I really liked the game, as a whole it’s great to play, just the respawn was the sour time but I had fun!
Thanks for sharing :)