I love you Out of the Blue games. You had me with American Arcadia so I decided to try Call of the Sea too and boy, this was so better.

It took me longer than normal to solve the puzzles and not because it was hard. It was because the visuals were so good AND the puzzles were harder personally. That still did not take away from the story of Norah and Harry. Jealous of their romance I still continued and the Lovedraft-esque theme for the creatures made it absolutely stunning for the water sections.

Hope you all watch the play through for this game as it is an amazing journey. I shall eagerly wait for Call of the Elder Gods launch

Parts of me really enjoyed this game. It was one of my first entries into story-based puzzle game and I was intrigued by the art style and plot.

Overall, I'd give Call of the Sea a 6.5/10.

PROS
Art style-the style of the game is very enjoyable as a backdrop when working out the various puzzles of the games.
Voice Acting-top tier voice acting. Even when the game made the audio hints a little too obvious for me, I still enjoyed it since the protags voice was really nice.
Puzzles-overall the puzzles were good. A balance of semi-difficult to semi-easy was a nice pace for the story to still holds its own. There were some puzzles were the reason was not clear within the in-game hints or other thought process with the rest of the puzzles within the game, but maybe it was a me thing.

CONS
Movement: The speed at which Norah walks, even when "sprinting" is MADDENING. I don't need to zoom around everywhere, but for the puzzles where I have to walk back and forth or up and down a structure, it was very frustrating.

The plot: At first the plot kept me guessing, but the big "surprise" was pretty obvious pretty early on. Wish this would have been something drawn out a bit more for the player.

Puzzles: I did say the puzzles were overall a pro, but the ones that were bad were extremely frustrating. And not in a normal puzzle way. In a " where in the game would have I gotten that" sort of way. I say this because one of the first big puzzles of the game, I had to look up what to do, because the solution was a "common sense" solution, and not an audio of visual clue lot the majority of the rest of the game that followed.

Unsure if I would recommend this game. There were parts I really liked! But again, the stuff that was a turn-off were a major turn-off.

70%