The Well's Blessing er et casual adventure puzzler, der følger tre teenagere i en coming-of-age-fortælling. Hver af hovedpersonerne har deres egen grund til at begive sig ud i skoven, og Gerard San Miguel Navarro fra udvikleren Big Stretch afslørede nogle af de vigtigste inspirationskilder, der hjalp med at få deres eventyr til at blive til virkelighed.
"One of the biggest references is a short hike. Not only visually but also in other ways," fortalte Navarro os på BIG Conference. "But yeah, we really like the kind of, as you said, PSX, Nintendo 64 look because it brings us to our own homecoming story."
"And it's a story about teenagers growing up, so I thought it was interesting to pick up this, almost like too digital, too weird, abstract way of deploying a natural world and try to make a story out of that," fortsatte han. Navarro refererede også til Spirited Away, især i forhold til spillets antropomorfe dyr, da de overnaturlige elementer gav ham og hans team mulighed for at udforske yderligere symbolik med spillets temaer. "Something supernatural is going on but it's actually talking about something super personal and realistic and real," forklarede han.
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