These are rich details but given the thematic importance the game attaches to our senses, they take on an added layer of meaning. Music doesn’t just exist in the score but is part of the world, self-playing musical instruments, tunes from the radio, unusual bird songs, wind singing through bamboo. The world is populated with ear-catching sounds that demand this close inspection. Season also uses Tempest 3D AudioTech to add a deeper level of detail to the spatial dimensions of sound. When recording audio in the game, you hear the sound but you also feel the shape of it in the vibration of the DualSense controller. The haptic feedback also changes as you cycle over different types of terrain. How does it feel to ride a bicycle? The adaptive triggers let us vary the resistance depending on the speed or the steepness of the road, so going uphill feels uphill. This theme found potent expression in many of the features available only on PlayStation 5. How things taste, feel, or smell, are often described as you explore. The screen goes black several times as the character closes her eyes to listen closer to sounds. The game often calls attention to your senses. There is another major motif to the story as well: The five senses. The story exists to give some kind of poetic expression (poetic meaning barely under control, the subconscious has the wheel) to these thoughts and feelings, to defamiliarize them, tear them up and put them back together in a fantasy world. As this becomes more certain, it has an attendant thought that feels even darker: These awful years are also the good times. We’re heading towards a future we know will be worse than the present. Season: A Letter to the Future is coming to PS4, PS5 ($29.99) and PC ( Steam/ Epic Games Store) for $24.99 on January 31, 2023.Most of the themes of “Season: A letter to the future” are expressions of the anxieties of our age.
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