It’s a fleeting reminder that being transported from abyss to surface is always a transformation.
Some of these sinister mutations riff on scarier real-world critters like the infamous Anglerfish, with its bioluminescent lure.
All command a higher price at each major island’s fish market than the species they’re derived from.
Say what you like about abyssal perversions, they apparently make for great eating.
On a clear day, it might as well beWind Waker.
It gets more alarming after dark, however.
Soon enough, you’re braving the sunset to hunt species that only appear after dark.
Judged against other RPG-inflected exploration games, Dredge’s key failing is it doesn’t evolve much.
The game’s own loading screen message portrays rendering its visible world as “dredging the depths”.
It’s not what they are, really, but that insatiable grid inventory that makes them hideous.
