4/26/2023 0 Comments The sinking city review switchThere’s very little combat in The Sinking City and this is a good thing, as the combat is the weakest element. In fact a lot of The Sinking City is like this, including why people are so comfortable with monsters wandering the place and gutted sharks stinking up the streets. There’s also a family who closely resemble apes, although that’s never really explored or explained. Instead he finds conspiracy and terror lurking around every corner, a cult dedicated to the worship of the otherworldly deity known as Kay, and escalating tensions between the townsfolk and a humanoid race called Innsmouthers, who resemble fish. who suffers crippling PTSD, and had come to the dreary former resort town looking for a cure. The protagonist is a former sailor turned P.I. It makes you wonder why people are so content to literally leave dead bodies strewn about the city, but then things in Oakmont are rarely what they seem. On PS5 the dingy streets and waterways tingle with detail, fish carcasses and octopi remains gleam with a hideous patina. My most recent foray was in the Switch version and, while it ran as well as it could after certain concessions, it struggled at times with framerate and the resolution took a major hit. Reed’s decent into madness and horror in the bizarre city looks pretty incredible on PS5. Perhaps unsurprisingly, its also the best version of Frogware’s Lovecraftian detective thriller, The Sinking City. The new version on PlayStation 5 marks the third time I’ve stepped into the shoes of Charles Reed and made my way to the grimy city of Oakmont.
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