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Writings of an insane mind others say while stories speak of a greater mystery, filled with sea monsters, dreams, nightmares and messages from other dimensions. Years since its disappearance, the sea legends speak of a dark journey on a ship long forgotten. Seamen refused to speak of it, knowing what it is said to do to those who challenge it.
All that until now.
The missing pages of this journal have been mysteriously put together.The sailor's diary has now been remade.
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A derivative of Journal 29, yet fails to capture the innovation or quality of the puzzles in that title. Relies on an internet connection, not only to check/submit answers, but also to access some of the puzzles themselves (e.g. a link to a website containing an audio recording of a sea bell chiming a Morse code message. In a book..... and why?!), which suggests that not much thought has gone into construction or selection of the puzzles - it's a bunch of common escape room formats, riddles, and optical illusions thrown into a book, without consideration of the affordances or opportunities of the media in which it's presented.
There is a supernatural story of sorts, but it's riddled with spelling mistakes - glancing at the first few pages, I can spot "myshelf", "trully", "Januray" - and, when some of the puzzles rely on observation of patterns in letters, these kind of QA errors can be game-breaking.
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