Dim Bulb’s quiet and contemplative story inform ’em up Where The Water Tastes Like Wine continues to be on the market, trudging down America’s dusty depression-era roads, gathering and telling tales. Today, it has just a few new ones to inform. Today’s Gold Mountain Update provides an official Chinese localisation, produced by a crew of devoted Chinese-speaking followers led by one Ryan Zhang. More importantly for English-speakers, it provides a brand new set of tales to the game, centered on the lives of Chinese Americans and their alchemized folklore as they grew to become woven into America’s material.
The new tales within the replace are unfold as far and vast as anything within the game. As you wander, it’s best to decide up some new tales, which might be collected and re-told as with all different. They’re not localised to anybody a part of America, so don’t fear about attempting to beeline it to the enlargement stuff. The replace immediately additionally consists of one other spherical of polish on the game’s skeleton, with improved controls, higher efficiency and a few quality-of-life fixes. Of course there’s just a few bug fixes in there too, however immediately’s patch notes are more focused on the story.
This massive replace comes despite plenty of critics (including RPS’s own Adam Smith) bouncing off the game, or no less than the extra historically ‘game-like’ elements its artwork, music and narrated tales are wrapped round. It was sadly not a crucial or industrial hit, nevertheless it’s such a robust, singular existence that I’m glad to see its outdated ramblin’ bones round, and discovering often-overlooked elements of the good American story to inform. An spectacular feat, which nonetheless fails compared to the game’s overarching narrator being Sting’s fursona. No, really. (Thanks, Engadget. Thadget.)
Where The Water Tastes Like Wine is at the moment 60% off on Steam, lowered to £6/€8/$Eight till July 17th, however you would possibly wish to begin off with free (and in addition translated) companion game Fireside Chats. It’s revealed by Good Shepherd Entertainment.
Disclosure: Cara Ellison, Leigh Alexander and Emily Short are names I’ve heard, however individuals I’ve by no means met. They’ve written for RPS and plenty of different locations prior to now, and lent just a few of their phrases to Where The Water Tastes Like Wine, too.
