Even standing still would yield sweet moments, such as sharing tender embraces that heal whoever has less health to match their partner’s current HP. Even though the environments are pretty simple and lacking in a whole lot of variation, I still loved looking around in new areas and finding new things in the world. Their voice lines during exploration don’t grate the way their combat lines do, and instead kept a near-constant smile on my face when they’d remark on various actions and sights even after I had long since stopped hearing anything new. Traversal gives an excellent sense of speedy and flowing movement (though I do recommend turning the field of view up to its absolute maximum for best results) and the couple are charming little chatterboxes throughout all of it. Combat involves juggling charging up actions across both characters.īy contrast, the gliding and exploration are a consistent delight. Combat is surprisingly simple, intuitive, and easy considering it involves simultaneously controlling two-characters in real time, and though it’s my least favorite part of the game it’s still very well designed… aside from being disorientingly noisy and cacophonous, particularly when it comes to the couple’s mid-combat voice lines. Much of the gameplay involves gliding around in gorgeous, vibrantly colored open fields picking up ingredients for meals and various knick-knacks you find while occasionally fighting off local wildlife infected by a mysterious substance known as “rust”. The Basics: Haven is an exploration-heavy action role-playing game wherein the player (or players, as the game has some light optional co-operative elements) assumes the role of lovers Yu and Kay as they attempt to carve out a life for themselves on a deserted planet. In light of this, we/I decided to re-evaluate our stance and at least give the game a more full and proper assessment, and so without further ado: here’s our review. However, at the beginning of March 2022 The Game Bakers released a free update to Haven adding the options to play as same-gender couples – either women-loving-women or men-loving-men – including a fair few reworked art pieces and basically completely re-recorded script with new voice actors for the gender-flipped versions of the protagonists. Ultimately, Sequential Planet declined the opportunity to review Haven. ![]() These misgivings turned into a full-on distaste when it came to light that a rather significant aspect of the game’s story involves the threat of the main couple being “recalibrated” to be with their assigned mates, which in conjunction with other aspects creates a deeply unfortunate implied question of “what if there was conversion therapy for straight people?” Despite my excitement prior to its release, I wasn’t super fond of Haven’s core concept, because making stories about “forbidden love” between a man and a woman when much of the world is engaged in a culture war surrounding LGBTQ+ people is – in many cases, at least – rather tone-deaf. Being a big fan of their debut game, Furi, I was naturally very excited to see what they had to offer this time around, but in between publication of some early reviews by other sources and Sequential Planet receiving a review code, some troubling details came to light. On December 3 rd, 2020, French studio The Game Bakers released their sophomore title, Haven, which is about two lovers who, in order to be together, flee an authoritarian dystopia where everyone is matched up with a life partner. Developer/Publisher: The Game Bakers Genre: RPG Reviewed On: PlayStation 5 Also Available For: PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, PC
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