

Pixar animations have used it for years, but these days we can render it in realtime, even on mobile. Our game has an artistically stylized look, but even our style benefits from the physically based rendering. It is a relatively new way to get realistic looking materials for a modern game engine that handles realistic lighting. It provides an intuitive way to express the realistic properties of the materials for the renderer. As an artist, I had to learn everything about physically based rendering. This project has introduced a lot of new and exciting things for us, from new ways of thinking to new tools and workflows. "With Unreal Engine 4, we have hundreds of man years of video game development backing us up" With Unreal Engine 4, we basically have hundreds of man years of video game development backing us up, and delivering our uncompromised dream is still going to be in our own hands in the end! We have the artistic freedom, and to ensure we can achieve what we set out to do, Epic allows us developers to access the engine source code. Its graphical capabilities and level editing tools are the best the industry has to offer. Unreal Engine is a game engine that has proven itself in hundreds of big titles over the past 20 years. If you’ve got a hankering for a game with a stamina meter, sword swinging, and pot smashing, there is at least one other better title on the Nintendo Switch that I can think of, but Oceanhorn is an alright little throwback to retro Zelda titles that could help you bide your time between Nintendo’s slow trickle of AAA games this year.New perspective takes you in the center of the action Powered by Unreal Engine 4

Meanwhile, the wonderful soundtrack was composed by Kalle Ylitalo and has a few tracks by Nobuo Uematsu and Kenji Ito who are known for their work on the scores of Final Fantasy and the Mana series, respectively. That said, Oceanhorn manages to run at a pretty solid 1080 60fps docked, and 720p 60fps while handheld. Plus, the Switch isn’t exactly known for being a graphical powerhouse. Performance-wise, the Nintendo Switch version of Oceanhorn looks a bit dated, but that makes sense considering this is based on the PC version of the game from two years ago. Rarely did I ever feel like I needed to think about what I was doing, which is alright if you’re looking for a more casual escape from all the hardcore survival and multiplayer-only titles flooding the market these days. Most dungeons will have blocks that need to be pushed to specific spots clearly marked on the ground, or levers to be found and swiped to open gates or reveal chests.

It is the prequel of the 2013 game Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas and takes place a millennium before the events of the game. It was released as an Apple Arcade exclusive on September 19, 2019. I don’t mind how simple most things in Oceanhorn are except for the puzzles, if you can call them that. Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm is an open-world action-adventure video game developed by Finnish studio Cornfox & Bros.
