Wide Ocean, The Big Jacket is a camping game about the complexities of family life

There are different social dynamics in every family, shared language – sometimes good, sometimes bad – that people experience with intimacy. It's not something an outsider can understand, but sometimes, you can get a seat.

Slowly, maybe there is room for an interior. I often wonder what it's like to have my partner immersed in the dynamic of my family, something we've been building and going on for years. The first time we visited my family together, there was an awkward silence, jumping in the refrigerator so we could not watch anyone's sight.

Those memories feel so distant now, but there must be a moment when things have deteriorated. She is fluent in the collective language of my family, and I no longer have to translate her.

Similarly, Great Sea, Great Jacket Is a video game equivalent to tossing into a stranger's world, where the campground is frozen. Made by Turnfollow, Great Sea, Great Jacket

it’s about the experiences it contains, such as a short movie, about a typical pharmaceutical journey. The trip is short – no more than a weekend away – my aunt Cloanne and her uncle Brad guide their 13-year-old niece, Mordek, and her boyfriend Ben. The scenes themselves, revealing and camping and heading to the beach, are casual and entertaining, slowly building on top of each other.

Two people, one tall and tall, were sitting by a campfire

It's Ben, boyfriend, who's out here. While Brad and Chloanne, who are not foster children, are uncomfortable watching children, they are raped by the soon-to-be (and quirky) Mord. For Ben, still shy and bad, he has to wander into the new world. Great Sea, Great Jacket it's not always Ben's idea, but I found myself interpreting the world as if it were me. Like, the player is an outside player, too.

When the game starts, we know nothing about the characters. Each chapter provides additional details, and it is in Burnfollow's excellent discussion where we find close family relationships. Great Sea, Great Jacket it's like a book or short story that you get in sequence. Each feature is contained, and for good reason. It's not the story of the player, the characters & # 39 ;. The chapters are designed in such a way that they, individually, can feel worthless, where I can present quiet, playful scenes.

First, Mordek and Ben make their way across the camp to the sea, where they meet a group of “teenagers” on the way. Teens make jokes about the couple, talking about sex at sea – something annoying for 13-year-olds. He is awake, Mordekh calls them, but the duo sounds shaken up next time. Camping as usual happens ever since: hot dogs, bird capture, ghost stories. But that night, Mordek had sex in a conversation with his aunt. Is sex nice?, he asks. What's next is not bad, it's exaggeration, too

authentic – a kind of turning point of the whole story, woven into thin lines of matter.

It's a written work that makes smaller camps feel bigger than a snowglobe. At the end of the game, I understand the language of this family. It's not the same as mine. I can visualize life living outside the camp from an hour or so after playtime. The letters suggest this too. It was Brad, I think, who said that a compass site could feel like a bubble, a system operating on a global scale, different from it. And of course, what happens in the tent are influenced by the same world – nothing escapes you.

I started playing Great Sea, Great Jacket in early February, when it was released on Nintendo Switch. Wednesday, it's on iOS devices for under $ 4. You probably did the same, an important team effort shortening the COVID-19 & # 39; s distribution curve. I have spent a lot of time in my little bubble, and it would be nice to be sensitive to someone else, or, if at first, bad.

Great Sea, Great Jacket was given i be polite ahead of the awards ceremony for the Independent Games scheduled for Wednesday.