My Life With Seaman Pt.6
This is the final week of the Seaman Chronicles. Luckily, this time didn’t end with me forgetting to feed him, and finding him a dried out husk (like I did with a gerbil once as a kid… hey, I feel bad enough about it already. Stop looking at me like that). I will get into the last days of Seaman in a few seconds, but first… the warning…. for one last time.
If you do not want the evolution of Seaman and the later parts of his life ruined, please don’t read the rest of this article.
So let us continue, and see where the last 35 days have led us to. I hope you’ve all enjoyed reading these so far, and if not, then why would you read this one?
Day 36
Today started the same as the last few days. I changed the temperature in the tank, and gave Seaman some food. I noticed I was on my last day worth of food. If he didn’t make it out today, he would starve, and then the last 5 articles would be some perfect proof of why I should never have kids. Then came the moment of truth. Would he make it to the ring today, or would he be one more missing child on a milk carton?
The fate of Seaman?
Well, it was make or break time, and I was determined not to fail this time. Seaman said, “Let’s try it again, you know the drill,” and then went to prepare himself on the rock. I had seen this twice before, and so far it was the same. Seaman readied his legs, and…
JUMP!
Seaman jumped for the ring again, but this time, he made it! He pulled the ring down to the ground where he jumped off. There were a series of clicking sounds, and then the back of the tank began to lower.
The back of the tank lowers...
And Seaman is able to leave!
Seaman leaped outside and turned around. He then thanked me for helping him get this far, but from this point he has things he must do on his own. He lectured me about how during our lives we will meet and lose many friends as you grow apart. This is part of the cycle of life, and now he must go on his journey. He said goodbye one last time, and leaped off to go evolve further on his own.
However, he came back for a moment… “Oh I almost forgot, tap on the glass for a surprise.” And then left again. I couldn’t wait to see what surprise would await me if I tapped on the glass! So I began to tap, about one a second, and …
The credits came up. Whee.
Well, apparently we have finished Seaman’s evolution. We’ve taken him from just a series of eggs to the fine outstanding frogman we let free today. Let’s take a look back at the whole process…
The Eggs and the Nautilid
First we had a collection of eggs, that the naulilid ate. Then they grew inside the nautilid and burst out as the first active form of Seaman.
The first form with a face.
These were the creatures that grew out of the eggs. We watched these forms learn how to speak, eat each other, eventually grow small legs and arms, and even mate. Then, after mating, the last remaining gillman crawled out on shore to die, but not before leaving eggs of the next form of Seaman.
The next generation
The next evolution of Seaman was the tadpole form. This form came into being with all the knowledge of the previous generation, so it was at least a quick continuation of our previous conversations. This form also grew arms and legs and ate each other, until we were down to two of them. Eventually, this form would learn to walk on land, and evolved to the point where it wanted to leave. So we helped out our Seaman until it was finally time for him to leave us and go out into the world to find himself… I think I’m going to cry…
This is the picture that will hang on my wall.
So there he is, our fully developed Seaman, off to go find his lost love, who is a bird. I hope you’ve enjoyed this as much as I did… but I have heard rumors that there will be a new iteration of Seaman for the 3DS, and if there is you can bet I’ll probably write about it.
So if you played this game again, would it give you the exact same outcome at the exact same pace?
Also weren’t there two frogman seamans? Did they both leave?
As far as I can tell it would. All the same conversations seaman had with Jeremy happened with me as well. Mine seemed to move at a faster pace, but I played a bit faster way back when I had it
I recall all the same conversations as well. It all seemed very played out as long as you didn’t outright try to kill seaman.
So it was a game you played once, actually, STRUGGLED THROUGH once, and then could really never play again because it just had one boring script it played through?
This is the worst game I have read about out of all of these game reviews, I think.
It was a game you played through once because it took roughly a month or so to finish. You couldn’t go nuts and do everything in one day (without playing with your clock on your Dreamcast), so it was a casual “play for 15-30 minutes a day tops– but don’t forget about him!” sort of thing. I expect most of the game is the same regardless of playthrough, but there had to be some sort of difference depending on what your hobbies and job info was.
Either way, a new version of this on the 3DS really would interest me.
Amanda, you don’t even like games. Or fun.
The Seaman article is my most beloved and most well remembered of all of Another Boutique’s many classic articles.
Thank you for inscribing it deeply into my brain.
Skunky is my new favorite person. You lose again, Mel Gibson.
Timely.