Where its predecessor was about crossing a dried-up seabed, Far: Changing Tides presents you with the opposite problem: There's really rather a lot of water here, so much that civilisation has seemingly washed away on the tide. What remains is you and your boat, which you acquire shortly after the game begins. As you get to grips with the boat's chimeric nature—it is really several different vehicles, including a steam train, jammed inelegantly together—Far keeps unveiling new surprises, opening up the scope of its sidescrolling world. By the end of the game, I knew every nuance of the vessel. It's the most rewarding boat I've steered across a videogame ocean...
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