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What’s your favourite sewer level?They’re not all bad!
They’re not all bad!
Sewer levels are a lot like orbs: without them, is a video game really a video game? While sewer levels are widely reviled, they’re near-ubiquitous, and I honestly think they can be good. So I’ll tell you about some I like, and you tell me: what’s your favourite video game sewer level?
Speaking of infrastructure…Infra, the first-person explore-o-puzzler about a structural engineer inspecting facilities on a distastrous day, has so many forms of sewers and drains and water tunnels. I think it represents almost every form of sewer level, everything from glowing radioactive waste and crawling through pipes to valve puzzles anda weird coffee machine puzzle with psychedelic drugs as a potential prize? And, unfortunately, one awful sewer bit where you have to ride a raft. But apart from that!
INFRA: TrailerWatch on YouTube
INFRA: Trailer
In Infra I did ache for the sewer levels to end, but because I felt trapped and wanted to escape. At times, our weird dude is underground for hours, out of contact with the surface and getting into increasingly surreal territory. It inspires a genuine concern that he might be abducted into a secret subterranean society. I was so relieved when I finally resurfaced to see daylight and residents casually living their lives. Thanks for building that tension, sewer levels.
Rather than gripe about bad sewer levels, reader dear, I ask you: which have you enjoyed and why?
