Best played with the lights turned off and the volume turned up, Black Sails is a creepy and mysterious point-and-click adventure game. Two survivors of a shipwreck try to survive in the raging sea. Until another ship appears. Hoping for rescue, they are calling, but nobody answers. They manage to go on board. Will this be their rescue? Or their grave?
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Some fun three hour jank point and click. The story's pretty predictable, not great voice acting, the puzzles are iffy, there's some DIRE pixel-hunting in a few parts. But its a 3D point and click and sometimes those are features instead of bugs.
I will say, I thought the story was wrapping up pretty concretely into a solid story about childhood trauma, and then it kinda swerves to do a weird split-personality/hearing voices thread that's just a major bummer. The core narrative thread of how a traumatized child interprets her peaceful surroundings as threats is strong enough as is. Adding in the implication that little Fiona was ~crazy~ is just pissing on the solid character drama that was working fine up until the end.
I will say, I thought the story was wrapping up pretty concretely into a solid story about childhood trauma, and then it kinda swerves to do a weird split-personality/hearing voices thread that's just a major bummer. The core narrative thread of how a traumatized child interprets her peaceful surroundings as threats is strong enough as is. Adding in the implication that little Fiona was ~crazy~ is just pissing on the solid character drama that was working fine up until the end.