![]() It’s definitely worth its asking price and a great game to add to your collection. It features a nice art style, a charming soundtrack and plenty to do as you help the bearded, burly brothers in their quest. You will need to do at least 12 full runs to get all trophies, but it can certainly take more if you don’t make the right decisions along the way.īurly Men At Sea is a very fun and clever adventure game with plenty to offer for PS4 and PS Vita owners. As you can imagine, there’s one trophy for each of the endings, and technically only one all the trophies on the list is story-related an unmissable. The game includes a full list with a Platinum trophy at the end, with one Gold, fourteen Silver and four Bronze trophies. Subsequent runs with the game will offer new branching paths that you can take to eventually unlock all twelve endings in the game, so you’ll start to realize how some decisions change things in the story. You see, each run with the game will take you roughly 20-30 minutes, which is the perfect size for the game since you can pick it up and play it for a bit every now and then – either at home or on the go. I won’t spoil any of the stories since the game is “short,” but rest assured that it’s a fun one. ![]() After finding a very helpful bartender who seems to know something about the map, they take their boat out to the sea where…. Brothers Hasty Beard, Brave Beard and Steady Beard go out on an adventure to try and find out what the map is really about. The game starts when the trio of brothers finds a mysterious bottle with a treasure map. That’s all you need to worry about, which is great since it allows you to dive into this adventure so you can focus on its story. The left analog stick is used to move a cursor around each area, but other than that, you only need to interact with objects with the X button. The whole game can be controlled either with the L2 or R2 buttons to move left or right, or you can use the right analog stick to move left or right. If you’re looking for a unique experience, Burly Men at Sea offers it - but, at the same time, don’t be shocked if it’s an experience that wears thin before you’ve seen everything the game has to offer.īrain & Brain provided us with a Burly Men at Sea PS4 code for review purposes.Before I begin, I want to take a moment to talk about the game’s controls. It’s bursting with invention and imagination, in everything from the way you drag the screen around to move the titular burly men, to the music that’s largely built around vocally-created sounds, and all points in between. ![]() What seems magical the first time or two won’t be quite so magical when you’re experiencing it for the fifth or sixth or seventh time.Īgain, Burly Men at Sea is most definitely not a bad game by any means. But when we’re talking about Burly Men at Sea, where a playthrough can be over in a matter of minutes, and you can see how the repetition might start to add up. If we were talking about a game where playthroughs took hours to complete, that might not be an issue. And so on, and on, and on, as you play the game multiple times in order to discover all that it has to offer. The third time, the fantastic-repetitive scale starts balancing out a little more. ![]() The second time it’s still fantastic, if a little repetitive. For that matter, taken altogether, they make for a pretty fantastic combination.Īt least, it’s pretty fantastic the first time around. Taken individually, those are all pretty fantastic ingredients. Everything about the game seems designed to please, from the brightly-coloured graphics, to the upbeat music, to the unique controls, to the interesting cast of characters, to the heartwarming story. And yet…I don’t think I love Burly Men at Sea as much as that list might suggest.ĭon’t get me wrong, it has a lot going for it. While some people may not love quirk and whimsy, when coupled with the other words, 99% of the time you’re probably talking about a positive experience. After all, those are generally pretty positive adjectives. Here’s a list of words I’d use to describe Burly Men at Sea: quirky, whimsical, charming, stylish, adorable, heartfelt, creative, and delightful.īased on that list, you’d probably think I’m head over heels in love with the game.
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