But such performances, particularly when they’re fleeting efforts, can give the impression that artists are embracing Latinidad only when it comes with the promise of commercial success. She easily could have given her songs a sudden makeover and pushed deeper into the glossy reggaeton that’s in vogue, and she wouldn’t have been the first pop artists like Selena Gomez and Camila Cabello have occasionally gravitated toward these genres and collaborated with the scene’s most prominent artists. For Sin Miedo, Uchis worked with the producer Tainy, generally considered one of the architects of the Latin music industry’s current reggaeton and trap styles, which have become commercially viable in recent years. That history inevitably factored into critics’ and fans’ conversations around the new album and her announcement that she’d foray more deeply into Spanish-language music.
Uchis isn’t a stranger to the minefields and complexities that surround the performance of Latinx identity: Early in her career, she traded ice-blond, Marilyn Monroe–style curls and the soft, pastel pop of her first EPs for darker hair and bolder aesthetics, which some critics contended was a marketing move intended to exoticize Latinx identity. I grew up bilingual, speaking Spanglish in my house, so it would be inauthentic to sing completely in Spanish or in English because that’s not how I talk.” Though she’s tested out bilingual music before-on her debut album and in a collaboration with the R&B singer Miguel-her statement did pose questions about how her identity would influence the actual music and what it would mean to excavate her upbringing for inspiration. In an interview with the Evening Standard, she explained, “The album is all Spanish with a few bits here and there in English. “It’s nowhere near the quality level of a standard One Piece arc, but for what essentially amounts to filler, World Seeker’s story is surprising in all the right ways.Uchis, who often visited her parents’ native Colombia while growing up, has always lived in between languages.
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It helps, too, that it looks way better than it plays, and that the big moments are told via beautifully rendered cutscenes featuring full voice acting from the usual cast, along with the fantastic Rikiya Koyama and Ayumi Fujimura as Isaac and Jeanne respectively. The smaller moments are told with single-line quips and text, but the animations are charming and perfectly encapsulate each character. Unfortunately, while the story gets much better as it goes on, the actual gameplay of World Seeker does not. Punching and GatheringWorld Seeker is a bland and formulaic open-world adventure, which means you’ll spend a lot of time going from waypoint to waypoint, taking on main missions and side missions that both have you going to a spot, beating up a bunch of dudes, collecting a bunch of meaningless sparklies on the ground, or opening treasure chests that take an excruciatingly long time to reveal their contents.
“The problem is that the enemies barely do anything that would require you to give any thought to the combat whatsoever. For the most part, it didn’t matter what kind of enemies I faced or which of the stances I use, because I still just got up in their face and mindlessly mashed the same button until everything was dead. (It’s hard to get creative when the obvious solution is right in front of you, and less obvious solutions aren’t any more fun in the first place.) There are a few enemies, like the shielded marines and robots, that require you to use ranged attacks, but apart from that, every fight against regular enemies played out almost exactly the same way. That got old within an hour, and there were 19 left go. Completing missions rewards skill points that can be used to purchase new abilities from four skill trees, but none of them evolve the combat in a way that makes it any more interesting.
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