Thankfully, as well, the game offers you a 'run' button that speeds up Norah's movement. The simplicity of the gameplay itself – interact with A, use the right stick to move things around to find potential clues, use the left stick to change puzzle selections – makes the core focus fall on the puzzles and not on getting around the island. There's still your fair share of darkness that creeps in, but it just felt so much different amidst the game's stylings. Call of the Sea eschews all of that and brings players to a bright, tropical experience in the South Pacific. Most games that dance around a Cthulhu-esque experience end up being dark, depressing, and set in the dreariness of New England. Somehow it made the game just pop more throughout the experience. It felt very akin to Rare's version of piracy in Sea of Thieves, but I thoroughly enjoyed the island jungle setting's vivid brightness.

The game looks gorgeous, even without HDR support. Using what info you have, you set out to find him and whatever cure he's hopefully discovered.

He sets off on an expedition sometime before the start of the game, leaving you alone without much indication of what's happened to him. Your husband, also educated and well-to-do sees himself as the intrepid adventurer and stops at nothing to find a cure for your mysterious illness. You're Norah Everhart, a seemingly well-to-do and educated woman from Colorado, long-suffering from some mysterious illness that has caused you no end of troubles and seclusion. The old vernacular aside (I'm pretty sure I remember hearing the phrase 'good show, old boy!'), the game is a straightforward, fun playthrough. It carefully balances a world-building experience and puzzle-solving with a 1930's adventure on a tropical island. From Out of the Blue, Call of the Sea is a fresh take on the whole Cthulhu mythos and puzzle games in general.

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