That one CD-ROM game's quest that spooked 7yo me

[sauronnaise]

When I was a kid, there was this computer game on a PC I played, called Forestia. I thought the CGI was more than fine until I found playthroughs on Youtube three years ago. Yeah. It looks like 1998. The game was developped in France and its purpose was to educate kids about the woods and its wildlife through fun activities. One of the quests spooked me and took me many times to finish.

Basically, a bad wizard cast a curse on the forest and the goal is to undo that, obviously. The design is creepy, the music is creepy, characters are creepy, the content is creepy; there's an animal in a cage; other animals are petrified and if you stay near them for too long ('too long' being mere seconds), their soul comes out of their body; some evil spirit comes to attack with some sort of hallucinations (?); the rabbit (I forgot his name) appears at some point, is definitely not mentally there, only to be hit by thunder; if you don't succeed the mission, it's game over and the forest is doomed.

On the positive side, it made me obsessed with the dragon constellation and the dragon himself. It's the apocalypse and homie chills under a waterfall. I was scared of him until I understood he wasn't the bad guy. I finished the quest still having no clue what I was doing (after a few trials, the 'click anywhere, go anywhere and hope it'll end soon' strategy worked).

Hell starts at 2:40 :

Watch on YouTube

Yep. That's morbidly in line with the current wildfires. I was naïve to believe Québec didn't have it as bad as Alberta.

Comments

[hhimring]

I hope you stay safe! It sounds bad in Quebec.

[sauronnaise]

It's getting worse day after day. There's a single fire that is as big as Lebanon, and the other fires put together are the equivalent of Belgium in size. That's Québec alone. It's the worst year since Canada keeps track of wildfire nationwide. I'm hundreds of kilometers away from the fires; all I get is the nasty smoke.

It's depressing:/

[hhimring]

I am sorry, I hope it won't last too much longer.

There are horrible wildfires in Europe as well but not in our corner of it.

[erulissedances]

My favorite of the early video games was "Might & Magic VI". I think I still have that on CD, and I've played it on my older laptop. It was the only one of the MANY computer games we had that kept my interest.

- Erulisse (one L)

[sauronnaise]

Checking it out on youtube. I miss the rough look games had in the past. It's nostalgia speaking because from an aesthetic standpoint, let's say I've seen better haha