Kotaku’s very own Carolyn Petit shines a light on the relatable aspects of life’s most painful growth spurts in Perfect Tides: Station to Station, the narrative point ‘n click sequel to Three Bees’ acclaimed Perfect Tides, out today on Nintendo Switch!
Get a glimpse into the game’s ability to establish a human connection between in-game characters and the players piloting them through a heartbreaking narrative that pulls on threads of youth, identity, and cultural moments that tie the two together:
“…One in-game menu shows Mara’s mind expanding as her knowledge and experience of various topics grows: the city, anarchism, music, movies, sex, death, all that good stuff. The more life experience she has to draw on about a given topic, the more effectively she can write about it. And Mara wants to be a writer.
That’s why she’s so excited when she comes into contact with some heavy hitters in the blogging world; lively, insightful writers forging their own path in a rapidly changing cultural landscape. One of Station to Station’s many remarkable qualities is just how perfectly it captures 2003 as a cultural moment; the shitty politics of Bush and the neocons, sure, but also how exciting it was to see the internet explode into a space where writers were challenging the traditional foundations of publishing, making names for themselves and developing loyal followings by just starting their own websites and doing their own things. For an aspiring writer at the time, what was happening online was electrifying (even if personally I was more galvanized by what I saw happening on a particular gaming website than anything in the blogging sphere). Mara discovers that some of the men she admires so much for their online writing are pretty disappointing in some ways as actual, flesh-and-blood people.
Check out Carolyn’s full review at Kotaku here! Perfect Tides: Station to Station is now available on Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, in addition to PC and Mac via Steam. Looking for more information? Visit the official website, follow the team on Bluesky and Twitter/X, join the community on Discord, and search #PerfectTides on all social media platforms.
