Forgotlings

Le jeu est excellent tout comme le premier "Forgotton Anne" avec encore une meilleure durée de vie et aussi une difficulté accrue . C'est en fait une préquelle et un gros changement du gameplay : cette fois un gameplay pour les ambidextres, c'est difficile au clavier de jouer avec les 2 mains contrairement au premier ou la souris avait son rôle habituel . La difficulté vient du fait que les sauvegardes sont espacées et qu'on se retrouve souvent si on ne fait pas attention avec très peu de vie pour un passage long et hard et je me suis demandée si j'allais un jour parvenir à le finir en mode "normal" car pas de retour en arrière possible . Il me reste d'ailleurs encore un dernier combat à gagner pour voir sans doute une autre fin . Néanmoins comme dans le premier il me semble, il existe un mode "histoire" avec beaucoup moins d'ennemis et croyez moi ça doit faire la différence dans certains passages difficiles . Alors je conseille cette série fortement et à mon goût de commencer par celui-ci. La fin annonce une suite à ce monde féérique ou vivent des objets perdus à la recherche d'un but .

Играла в Forgotton Anne, очень понравилось, поэтому и в новую игру в этой вселенной тоже решила сыграть. Сюжет, лор, визуал просто великолепны, но есть несколько минусов: 1. Меня очень огорчило, что я собирала всю валюту и играла обсолютно со всеми в местную настолку, НО после [spoiler] скитаний по туману и разговору с вождём Мангровой Рощи [/spoiler] , мне не дали вернуться на другие острова, чтобы доделать то что я не успела. Я СПЕЦИАЛЬНО не спешила тратить деньги направо и налево, а хотела их распределить равномерно между племенами и так же турниры я тоже отложила на попозже. С предыдущими вождями, я могла остаться на острове и потом уже спокойно отплыть дальше, тут же меня сразу отправили в стражеград... Из которого вообще нельзя выбираться... ПОЖАЛУЙСТА, МОЖНО БЫЛО ДОБАВИТЬ ТАБЛИЧКУ ПЕРЕД ТОЧКОЙ НЕВОЗВРАТА, ЧТО ДАЛЕЕ ПО СЮЖЕТУ МЫ НЕ СМОЖЕМ ВЕРНУТЬСЯ и чтобы игрок пошел и доделал свои дела. Из-за этого я не смогла получить два достижения [spoiler] за победу над всеми соперниками и за пожертвование денег племенам [/spoiler] . Спасибо, очень приятно. 2. Автосохранение. Нет возможности самой сохранить и выбрать слот. Так бы я смогла вернуться на тот момент до точки невозврата. Слоты появляются только в конце игры, когда одна история у тебя уже закончена, а вторая ещё не начата😀 какой в этом смысл тогда, если я не могу вернуться к первой игре, точнее могу, но только в самый самый конец игры. 3. Частые баги, то Фиг застревал в текстурах, то вообще проваливался сквозь них. 4. Иногда слетал русский перевод. Не сильно критично, на пару фраз, но всё равно не очень. Особенно в конце [spoiler] в кат-сцене с Энн и каким то мальчиком [/spoiler] . 5. Софтлок. Был такой случай, что в игре Ина когда я фактически победила соперника, но у него остались фишки и нет возможности их куда либо поставить. Игра просто остановилась и не признала мне победу, но и сделать ничего не даёт, кроме как отказаться от игры тем самым признав поражение. Пришлось переигрывать. 6. Печалит отсутствие нормальной карты этих островов, но это не столь критично. 7. Не самое удобное управление, как будто бы медленный отклик. Когда я уже отпустила ящик, Фиг продолжает его тянуть, и т.д. Рекомендую, только потому что сюжет и визуал очень крутые, мне правда было очень интересно проходить эту игру и я была рада снова увидеть Фига. Но настроение конечно подпорчено из-за достижений которых я не смогла получить. Проходить второй раз не осилю.

Well, I loved Forgotton Anne and its premise years ago but it has been so long that I barely remembered much of it, so I went back to watch some gameplay. Since I enjoyed that game so much, I wanted to give Forgotlings a chance as well but unfortunately it just dragged too much for me. Either the setting or the premise never managed to hook me the way Forgotton Anne did. Maybe the original simply had a certain magic that is missing here or maybe I was a different person back then - who knows. I'm still glad I supported the developers but unfortunately this one wasn't for me. I didn't connect with the characters, the setting never really clicked and despite how much I liked Forgotton Anne, I couldn't bring myself to finish this game. Hopefully the developers find their footing again but unfortunately I'm letting this one go.

The artstyle and storytelling is something else. My god it's god. I've just started my playthough, and had hope the developers sees this. Whoever wrote the story and did the artstyle, you deserved a raise. Really loving it so far, and can't wait to get back in !

Это одновременно и приквел, и сиквел Forgotton Anne. Грустная и жизненная история о том, как брошенные и ненужные вещицы пытаются построить общество на руинах человеческого эгоизма и понять своё предназначение, всё нарисовано невероятно красиво в стиле Ghibli, от части напоминает Oddworld, но может немного задушить игровым процессом, если кому хочется увидеть экзистенциальный мир пропитанный красками с вариативностью решения конфликтов, тот этот штучный арт-хаус к вашему вниманию.

I had high hopes for this game, and so far (about five hours in), it hasn't disappointed. Forgotlings has some truly stunning visuals. The Studio Ghibli inspiration is evident, yet the combination of whimsical characters and amazing background environments also reminds me of Professor Layton. The game seamlessly transitions back and forth between gameplay and cinematics, and the world – where abandoned everyday objects come alive – is fascinating to explore. For a 2D platformer, there is a lot of story exposition, perhaps a bit too much. Fortunately, the dialogue and voice acting are all top-notch, and some conversations are optional, letting you regulate the pacing yourself. Despite a clear focus on story and presentation, Forgotlings avoids the mistake of other cinematic games, namely the temptation to become more movie than game. There is plenty of platforming, combat and stealth, while levels hide plenty of extras rewarding exploration. My main complaint is that the character controls, especially when platforming, feel a bit stiff. Combat and stealth are definitely not the game's strength either, but the puzzle and exploration focused level design somewhat alleviates the issues. Anyway, since you are playing as a wooden doll with disjointed, cartoon-like animation, it was probably always going to be a compromise between gameplay and visuals. Based on the insane number of patches (9 in the 10 or so days since release) this has evidently been a rough launch! So far through, I've only experienced minor visual glitches, and I can't wait to finish the adventure – once time permits it!

I'm pretty torn on forgotlings tbh, on the one hand you have a game with great worldbuilding, wonderfully voiced characters and beautiful audiovisual presentation. But on the other hand the gameplay is so cumbersome that actually playing the game isn't all that fun. Whether or not the game is worthwhile depends on what type of game you want as a player. I personally prefer metroidvania's with great gameplay, exploration and level design but i can be swayed with excellent atmosphere, audiovisuals and worldbuilding. Forgotlings isn't even a real metroidvania tbh but it isn't a game i regret playing. I am however a bit dissapointed by the potential it could have had if it was a proper MV with better gameplay. For starters the controls are VERY clunky and cumbersome, not only during platforming but especially during combat. You have a 3 hit attack combo and a parry but both lock you into the animation while enemies stun you out of everything. This is especially noticable when you are getting swarmed by enemies which happens when you get spotted during one of the many mediocre stealth sections. You do have a dodge roll that's marginally usefull to even the playing field. There's also two 'bosses' in the game, neither of which are fun to fight. You won't find more variety in the regular enemies either as there's not even 10 types in this 15+ hour game, none of which were fun to square up against. The platforming is only slightly more fun as the controls really work against you sometimes. If you jump while running your character will do a far jump which can sometimes get you killed. You 'think' you were at a standstill but not yet as the character retains a lot of momentum due to the animation style. Wall jumping is also really janky. The level design isn't that great either but it's hard to with such basic mechanics anyways. There was a nice twist though that had you move into the fore and backgrounds, creating multiple layers of playable space. This created a lot of depth and made the world more immersive but it did make exploration a bit confusing, especially without an ingame map. Speaking of exploration it felt VERY unrewarding as there's pretty much only 3 types of things to find, two of which are basically currency that's interchangable. The other one are pieces for your chess minigame that's really hyped up by the npc's but lacks real depth or strategy to make it fun to play. The enemy AI is also quite dumb and most npc's will only allow you to play if you bet currency which is finite since enemies don't drop it. You also just have to play a LOT of this throughout the game and by the end i got pretty tired of it, luckily you can make OP decks to force wins early but that got old as well. On a final note you have to play a LOT of matches if you want to get all the achievements. Since we're talking about achievements i'll have to add that there's A LOT of them and most of them are either missable or require multiple playthroughs. Their descriptions are pretty vague as well and since the game is very obscure there's no good info either. If you're a completionist don't pick this game up as there's also many points of no return which straight up don't allow you to finish up some game wide achievements. There was also one achievement i know of that was straight up bugged and didn't unlock even though it should have. It didn't completely ruin the experience but it did sour it a bit as i tried to be as thorough as possible while playing and still only unlocked a little over half of the achievements. I spoke to every npc i came across and wasn't rewarded for this with any achievement which felt a bit disingenous. I suppose that the reward were the conversations themselves which were often entertaining but at the same time took a lot of effort. I don't think i would exagerate if i said that HALF of my playtime was spent on dialogues with npcs. I've never played a game where there was this much talking, luckily the writing was good and voice acting mostly solid. The main cast is very good, the main character fig himself especially but some of the supporting cast are pretty mediocre like the bandits which all have the same unpleasant forced voice. All of these dialogues and cutscenes crafted a grand narrative that mostly stuck the landing. The worldbuilding felt awesome, especially all the different tribes with completely unique cultures but the story did suffer from pacing issues. The first act takes a while to get going and the second act of uniting the tribes is most of the game. The final act however felt really rushed and i didn't really like where some storylines went. I suppose it lacked a satisfying pay-off for all that hard work you do most of the game but the subversion of expectations has its own merits i guess. Still thought the characters are the real highlight and the crew of your own ship which you can talk while traveling between tribes was very fleshed out. The cutscenes were also wonderfully animated studio Ghibli esque visuals. Speaking of visuals they were absolutely stunning with super cool and unique environments that created a really unique and memorable world. Like i said the tribes felt unique in culture but also their locations were very distinct and memorable. Seeing all the sights & speaking to the unique characters was the main driving force for me but the accompanying music felt equally magical. It did cut off at times when playing but worked most of the time so I'll gladly listen to the OST some more now that i've beaten it. Finally there's the technical side of things, while the game did run well i did encounter some bugs but it's mostly pretty polished after all the patches. It's not a perfect game due to very flawed gameplay but it's carried by great worldbuilding, story and presentation.

I discovered Forgotton Anne a year ago and really loved it. Forgotlings is a work of art just like Forgotton Anne was. Great quality voice acting, music, and the animation/scenery is so beautiful to look at. The platforming feels just like it did in Forgotton Anne. I don't play a lot of platformers but I am able to navigate without problems. I have no complaints about the controls. There is now combat but the game has story mode and normal mode depending on your preferences. Difficulty can be changed at anytime, so the game can be as easy or difficult as you want it to be. I had a few bugs where my character would get stuck on objects, but autosave is frequent enough that it never felt like an inconvenience. Overall, if you enjoy Forgotton Anne, I think you would enjoy Forgotlings. I can tell that a lot passion was poured into this game.