“Ocean’s Heart” (“OH”) is the inaugural release by one-man Ohio-based Indie polymath, Max Mraz, published by Lithuanian mobile publisher, Nordcurrent. Mraz started work on the game in 2017, out of a simple desire to create a ‘Legend of Zelda’ homage. Four years later, “OH” was released on Steam in January of 2021, before being ported to the Switch’s Nintendo Network a year later. I had heard of neither Mraz or “OH” prior to the Steam discovery queue presenting the game to me during one of 2021’s sales, though I didn’t actually bite at MSRP or the sale during which I discovered it, instead waiting for the Winter 2022 sale and a Steam gift card given to me by MeltedJoystick’s CTO, Nick.
As a huge ‘Zelda’ fan who considers “A Link to the Past” to be n... |
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