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OVERSEASONED

There’s nothing I love more than a game whose world wants to tell me a story. As soon as you present me with an evocative landscape I can’t wait to get stuck in. Season: A Letter to the Future has a vast horizon when it starts. Yet the more you travel through Season, the more its vista shrinks, taken up by the story its narrator wants to tell, leaving no room for the player’s own exploration.

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