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Aquaria is marketed as an action-adventure game. Don’t let them fool you! There’s no action, and there’s no adventure! It’s a walking diving simulator! I spent one hour finding my way in the underwater world and NOTHING happens! And you know what - I’m stuck! I’m stuck at exploring the beautiful underwater world where nothing happens! HA! While I certainly felt like a fish from “The Sword in the Stone”, I grew tired of diving through the underwater labyrinth! And I blame the designers for not caring about the less-patient players like myself!

(in a more serious remark - this certainly looks like a game that could be treasured by more patient players, and seems like it was acknowledged as a new wave (pun not intended) of a side-scrolling adventure games, a spiritual successor to Zelda, Bermuda Syndrome, Ecco the Dolphin… with even more emphasis on puzzles. Well, I haven’t met a single one, but perhaps you will.)

Oscar - 15 March 2016 12:05 PM

Sounds thrilling.

Did you try this?

To face dangers, Naija has to use the power of the verse. By right-clicking on her, eight notes of different colours are shown, and clicking them triggers a chant. By chanting the right tone at certain plants, Naija can collect items, and learn spells and recipes. In the style of Loom or The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, the notes can be combined into songs to cast spells. These form shields, can be used to lift objects or change Naija to different forms with new abilities giving access to new locations. Right-clicking interacts with the environment and is used for attacking. In an items menu food and other objects can be used or cooked in combination to form new ones.

Of course. It did nothing (for me). (but it’s fun - the note system had obviously been done by someone with a musical knowledge, because while the songs changes as you swim across the regions, the 8 notes are done in the appropriate scale of the song in the background - in other words, the random clicking will almost certainly produce a pleasant harmony, and you can play with it and make music )