The game does a great job of helping you keep track of things with Norah’s journal, where she keeps detailed illustrations of things she’s discovered and, more importantly, clues to solving puzzles. Sure, most of them were simple, but the real brain teasers had me going for a good 30 to 40 minutes with a lot of note-taking. The reward for me was the equivalent of defeating a boss in the Souls games. I absolutely loved solving puzzles in Call of the Sea. As you would expect from the fantastical nature the game dives into, later on, it also holds many secrets, with those secrets make up the bulk of the gameplay.

The island that Norah finds herself on is absolutely stunning, full of amazing vistas to snap screenshots of, especially in the earlier parts of the game. A Gorgeous Mysterious Island That’s Brimming With Secrets Cissy Jones, who also provided the voice of Delilah in Firewatch, does a fantastic job as Norah narrating her emotions, and Yuri Lowenthal does the best he can with the little amount of dialogue he gets. That’s not to say that the cast didn’t do a great job. When it came down to making a decision that would affect the ending, it was an easy one to make for me I didn’t feel the weight of my decision because I just couldn’t connect to the characters and Norah specifically. I also never really cared for Nora’s plight, maybe because there weren’t any character interactions between her and someone else, and all I got was small glimpses of her love for Harry when she talks about their life together. The game’s story takes a radical turn into the fantastical, and though some may enjoy it, I found it a little too far out there.

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