A Highland Song

These hills have stories to tell - and quite a lot indeed. A wonderful little journey, that you feel the urge to take multiple times over, along with a fifteen year old girl on the path to find herself. A player experience somewhere between curiosity and melancholy, with a very forgiving gameplay that does not prevent anyone from finishing their trip. The game can crash sometimes, and if you are into tough skill challenges, it might not be your first choice, but if you like to just wander the mountains for a bit and turn around every stone to see if there is something underneath you hadn't seen yet, grab your backpack and don't look back. I'll be waiting by the lighthouse.

A very hard game, too easy to go around and around in circle, and get stuck in a loop. After 4 hours I gave up.

This game is hard. I thought it was meant to be played in the first sitting. It is not. The game is beautiful and tells a lovely story. You can play it a few times over and experience difference parts of the world. The platforming is fun and the controls are smooth. If you take it slow, it's a lovely casual adventure game. There were a few moments of graphical glitches, but nothing immersion breaking.

I wanted to enjoy nature and music, but instead I'm losing max health every day and wasting days trying to find the path, because apparently I can't move forward until I randomly find a map on the ground. The lost-in-the-wilderness simulation is a little too real.

The overall story of the game is really well-paced, and lots of hints towards Moira's background which slowly become more and more obvious as time goes on. The landscapes are beautiful and the music is perfect! My only issues with the game are the music runs can be a little awkward at times and navigation in certain areas is both a bit confusing (i.e. getting lost) and it can seem like you're fighting against logic and game design (e.g. going between the ground you're on, and the rocks that are a "layer" behind you). But those two things wouldn't stop me from recommending to others! It's a short story which you could do in one sitting if you really wanted to. But it's still a really nice one, and I'm sure there's bits which I missed on my first journey.

I get what all the negative reviews are about. The controls are rather wonky, sometimes even buggy. But once you get used to them, it's not that bad. I really like how it's unlike most other platformers, gives a fresh experience. If the creators wanted to convey how difficult and dangerous it is to hike in the Scottish Highlands, they succeeded with it. That being said, the game is rather forgiving. Yes, you can easily fall, but it takes more than one fall to kill you. And if you die, the worst you can lose is a day. Then there is the story. The plot itself isn't much, it's more about the atmosphere, how you hike and explore, and get to know more about local legends. Add to that the beautiful visuals, the nice music and voice acting (if you don't mind thick Scottish accents), it's a rather lovely game. The part I least enjoyed are the rhythm minigames, on the account that I don't like rhythm games. They aren't very difficult though.

Cozy.

曲が本当に素晴らしいしグラフィックも親しみやすく、ゆったり味わいたいゲーム。 なのに英語でまったくストーリーがわからない……！ 日本語対応をずっと待っています。

Cozy, relaxing game. More fun than i expected at first!

[b]Base game – 10+/10[/b] This game is a hidden gem in a Steam store! At first glance it may look like a regular platformer, but it is much more fun than this. The game is about exploration, secrets, and finding the best route to complete the game. The in-game environment is beautiful and represents some kind of 2D open world. Finishing the first playthrough is only the beginning. The game is designed in such way that you complete a single run while discovering the hidden paths, and for the next run you preserve this knowledge. Each time you are free to take any path you want and each time your journey is unique and gives you something you haven't seen before, like secrets, items, or NPCs. The game is not difficult as some people say in reviews. You just need to approach the game in a right way. Do not try to complete everything in one go. The game is designed for iterative playthroughs and during the first run you are not familiar with the environment and you only start collecting the in-game maps to uncover secret ways, so the game might fill a little bit hard. But there is literally no way you can fail the run or loose. If you die you don't have to start over and you don't loose any items you've collected. There is what I would call a 'recommended' deadline to complete the run but nothing bad happens if you miss it - it only affects the ending (not a bad ending, don't worry). Next time you will make it faster and each run will feel easier than previous. Finally, you can't get lost or blocked - even if you don't have enough maps there is always a path forward. And even if you encounter a bug (personally, I never experienced any bugs, the game works well) or believe that you are stuck - you can always reload previous saves from the settings. There are so many positive thing to tell about this game but review will be too large, so just try it out. Probably I'll never be able to visit Scottish highlands, but this game made me check them out on Google Earth [strike]street[/strike] hill view :D Personally, I've never played anything like this before. Absolutely recommend! [b]Achievements – 10/10[/b] Achievements encourage exploring in-game world and uncovering secrets. There is one achievement that requires completing the game in a short time, but it is not difficult if you've discovered enough shortcuts - just do it after all other achievements. If you explored enough but still don't know how to do it - you can simply find the guide or video and follow it step by step.