Season Looks Like Another Great Photography Game

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After several years of development, Season: A Letter To The Future is set to finally debut in Autumn 2022, and once again it's enthralling players with its gorgeous aesthetic and ethereal vibes. Fans have been anticipating Season's release for many years now, and with the latest trailer from PlayStation finally providing not just an insight into the focus of the game and the drive of its story, but also a demonstration of some of its core mechanics, it looks set to be the next cult classic non-game that many are hoping it will be.

While stylistically unique, Season is poised to be another game to join an ever-growing list that allows players to explore and capture photos of a vibrant open world, contributing to the increasingly popular trend of photography games that have sprung up in recent years. Unlike these like-minded games, however, it appears that Season is going to deliver on far more than just picturesque snapshots and the raw beauty of the world's sound.

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It's said that a picture is worth a thousand words, and evidently, this seems to be the mantra Season is approaching players with as it sets the stage for a world full of characters with rich stories to tell and mysterious areas to explore. Two core mechanics have been demonstrated in the latest State of Play showcase, one providing a glimpse at how the player can take snapshots of everything and anything, and the other a microphone ready to capture any sounds, voices, or music the player might want to record. Season appears to present an ethos of immortalizing the finite, as the trailer goes on to provide an enigmatic introduction to a community of places and people that shall all