In 2013, Finnish mobile (not a typo) developer, Cornfox & Bros. released an archetypal Action/Adventure game on smartphones. It was met with critical acclaim. A few years later, this game, “Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas” (the lack of a ‘the’ in there somewhere is also not a typo) (“Oceanhorn”), got ported around to PC and consoles, even receiving a coveted Limited Run physical distribution on PlayStation 4. However, in its more traditional incarnation, critics – including myself – have been colder. The reason behind the dichotomy of “Oceanhorn’s” life is simple: The mobile market has no standards, so anything that isn’t a blatant addiction/mactrotransaction engine seeking to stick its blood-sucking proboscis into any-and-everything it can seems really... |
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