![]() Dominic's face is completely hidden by a large-brimmed hat, while Zane is mostly a Featureless Protagonist throughout the game. ![]() Cryptic Background Reference: If you lose the struggle for the gun, Dominic will cheerfully quip "When you get to Hell, say hi to Mom for me!" after he shoots you.Childish Older Sibling: Zane, the elder Ryker brother, is the type of guy who loves drinking root beer from a goblet that once belonged to Hungarian royalty and leaves ancient gold coins out where they might fall into the ocean just because he likes how they sparkle in the sunlight.One of this game's achievements is also a direct nod to this trope: "Anton Chekhov Tips His Hat At You". Cain and Abel: Dominic is Cain while Zane is Abel.Butt-Monkey: The longer Dominic kept going on adventures with Zane, the more his health suffered.ĭominic: In Bolivia, my face got bitten by a rattlesnake, in Greece, I tumbled down a mountain and got my skull fractured.Blinded by the Light: All of the sharks are scared off by the flashlight on Zane's phone.Bittersweet Ending: Zane survives, and it's implied that he'll find the treasure, but he kills his brother Dominic in self-defense and is left traumatized by the experience.Dominic is less enthusiastic about this, but he goes along with it because it's often paid well. Ascended Fanboy: Zane was inspired to become an adventurer after years of watching adventure movies and playing adventure video games.Players are advised to disregard his pleas. Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Dominic will beg for his life if Zane successfully yanks the shotgun out of his hands. ![]() Achievement Mockery: This game has achievements for the player drowning 25 times and getting eaten by sharks 25 times.Solitude Underwater was made by Big MA16 studios, and can be downloaded for free on Steam, Itch.io and Gamejolt. With only a few tools at his disposal to protect himself with, what started as a treasure-hunting expedition soon becomes a matter of life and death. When Zane wakes back up, he's hundreds of feet underwater, with man-eating sharks swarming around the cage. All seems well at first, until the cords attaching the cage suddenly break, causing it to plunge into the depths. Zane steps into the shark cage, which Dominic slowly lowers into the ocean. While Dominic stays behind on the boat, Zane goes underwater in search of the lost treasure of the Insurmountable. But disaster struck midway through the journey, and the Insurmountable capsized and sank into the ocean, never to be found, while the majority of its crew were eaten by sharks.Ĭenturies later, a pair of treasure-hunting brothers, Zane and Dominic Ryker, board a small boat and travel out to a lonely stretch of the ocean, several miles off the coast of South Africa, where they believe the Insurmountable sank. In 1719, a trading ship known as the Insurmountable set sail for England its cargo hold packed with priceless treasures from India. And all the thousands of creatures that live in it! Deep blue ocean, anyway!ĭominic: The deep blue ocean. Zane: Whichever way I look, there’s nothing but you, me, and the deep blue sea! Well.
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