Beasts of Maravilla Island

The movement controls are a little rough at times, Marina gets stuck on the environment a little too often. But it's not like this is a high stakes platformer, it's a fantasy to play in with your camera! Very fun.

[b]"scaly facial frills... and teeth?!"[/b] 💖🖤🖤 🟩 very neat world 🔷 completely linear 🔴 kind of mindless [b]vibes:[/b] sterile magic [b]loops:[/b] walk around very linear maps taking photos of magical animals [b]states:[/b] finished with 100% [b]ramblings:[/b] this is an on rails photography game, without the actual rails, the maps are pretty much just linear hallways you go through, there is no room to explore. visually and aesthetically the environment and animals are all pretty neat and fantastical. i especially liked the second stage which is like a luminescent mushroom forest. the grandfather's journal's notes are also really nice, i wish the game had done more with those notes, for example having an entry for each animal that unlocks when you photograph them.  · unfortunately this magical journey loses all that wonder pretty fast. it dulls. it's hard to find the animals magical when they were absolutely everywhere, a constant overload, requiring zero effort or a keen eye or timing to take photos. there's no photography mechanics where you need to try and get a good shot or anything. sometimes i'd take one of something barely visible without even re…

A cozy little story to play through casually.

Beasts of Maravilla Island is very cute. It's a good collection game with unique animals. My only complaint is that it's very short. There's only three levels. I would like to see more environments in the future.

I really enjoyed playing this game. A young woman returns to a mysterious island her grandfather explored when he was younger. Your job is to capture photos of all the different flora and fauna on the island, including documenting certain behaviors from the larger animals. As you explore, you discover that some wrongness seems to have befallen the island that perhaps only you can make right... This was a very fun, low key, low stress game to play. I had a blast filling up my photo book. You can take different pictures of the same species and then decide which photo to display as your main picture in your photo book (so you can retake pictures until you get the perfect one). The plants, animals, and insects in the game were extremely creative and whimsical, and I really enjoyed some of the bonus content you unlock once you complete each of the three environments (these are not playable content, just pretty sculptures of the wildlife you encountered, etc.) My one complaint is the game itself is a little buggy. Sometimes photos would not populate to the correct page, or would display under the wrong animal, etc. One time an environment got blacked out. There was also one se…

As a fan of games where you take pictures I was super excited to play this. It's a really beautiful and fun game! gives me Blackreach in Syrim, and Avatar vibes. The controls can be a bit janky at times and there's a few visual glitches like the pages showing the wrong pics but it eventually fixes itself.