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Albatroz is a Latin American backpacking RPG with glorious views in which you search for a walking mountain(and also, your missing brother)
(and also, your missing brother)
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Image credit:SOEDESCO
Albatroz | Gamescom Latam 2024 trailerWatch on YouTube
Albatroz | Gamescom Latam 2024 trailer
Speaking as somebody who can’t finish a workday without wanting to hurry Bilbo Baggins-style out the door and straight into the nearest moderately-sized national park, I am dead keen on the “backpacking RPG” getup. I am considerably less keen on the game’s being presented as a big vibrant metaphor for wrestling with loss and the process of self-discovery.
The trailer dialogue is so on the nose it gives me a nosebleed, and well, when is heading off into the wildernessnotsome variation on the act of letting go in order to find yourself? I’m probably being very condescending and unkind to developers Among Giants, here. I’m sure the sentiments are heartfelt. But I’m fervently hoping the full version involves much less poignant self-reflection and philosophising, and a lot more silent hiking and beholding.
The writing isn’t all monuments to mortality. There are those villages, each of which has its history and spread of personalities. Providing these trips into town are appropriately spread out, I can imagine them being a nice change from the isolation of hiking - it depends how “vast” the environments are in practice. As for the survival elements, you can pass out if you run out of supplies, but it doesn’t look like you’ll be limping back to town with broken ankles and a case of dysentry. This feels much closer toBrothers: A Tale Of Two Sonsthan The Revenant.
Albatroz is out this year. There’s a demo onSteam, which I’ll be trying out later, unless I do succumb to the call of the open road, in which case I’ll probably get as far as the local Dominos before heading back home to watch House Of The Dragon. If you enjoy going for long walks but would prefer a bit more friction, why not go for a stroll in Sons OfThe Forest? Alice O (RPS in peace)says it’s lovely in thereand she has yet to lie to my face.
