Engrossed is the word that at best captures Abzu. What is an on rails light puzzle solving experience that is breezy to complete within 2 hours. Where the natural awe of what you think ar the mysteries of the sea? It takes you there, if what you seek is a visual fantasy escape? This is it. Seriously there are mediation statues for you to reflect as fish and them get lost in the moving of the fish, it helps that the visual splendor is pretty. It also helps that it weaves two play styles to make the push and pull of the short experience feel worth it. The small puzzle like areas where you have to explore to restore the old architecture etc, to pull levys. It is all about paying attention to the elements around you and that might require a sense of verticality etc. The other part of the game is the brisk on rail em vents where you are literally on rails and it feels like you catching streams of fish increase the speed, it feels like a sonic bonus stage. You don’t have to do any of that but just the actual satisfaction of the action is great enough I want to do it, similarly the ability to attach myself to any fish just because is nice but it gets tired quick and muddies up the controls. The controls are mostly solid, but the camera tends to interfere with exploration etc, I quit exploration because of the camera rather than not being interested most of the time, and that controls feel sluggish out of water as well. That doesn’t matter as much but it feels important to note. I also get the reason why they introduce hazards at one point for a story plot point but the design feels like it punishes you multiple times for minor mistakes and the controls being a little finicky for small movements made this design feel annoying. Its not unfair as you don’t lose health or die etc, but it’s enough that I wondered “WHO THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA”. This a tight experience, with pretty visuals but also likely fleeting that I don’t foresee that there is anything for me to hold onto. Its nice and thats good enough .