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