Scarlet Deer Inn

Scarlet Deer Inn let's you run, jump and adventure through a medieval world of slavic folklore. The games world is presented in a comic like 2D style where the environments are painted and characters are (mostly) depicted in scanned yarn-stitch-patches that have a lot of charme. Storywise we're following Elise a young mother searching for her kids that have mysteriously disappeared. The journey leads us through our medieval village, a lot of dark tunnels and ruins and a small castle each with their own set of characters and enemies. A large part of the game is about finding out the right paths through a given set of options - where only one actually means progress - so a bit of back and forth. There are also some collectibles that tie into the story that are scatteres around the intended path. The games score consists of slavic (czech?) folk and some instrumental only compositions that fit the graphical style and mood of the game perfectly. But the game also has it's darker sides (besides the large amount of dark tunnels). There are some aspects that repeated themselves a lot in the 2,5h journey and the actions of some characters are sometimes a bit hard to grasp, making them feel like cut-out fairy tale characters. That can be intended as it's a game about folklore but on the other side it's a problem only a few characters actually have, while most of them just feel like natural characters in their environment. Additionally there is one part of the story that feels like it was just put in to stretch the game a bit more, the characters in that part are not important before that events and absolutely lose importance directly after finishing that part. I thought that's a bit sad, as there was so much work put into the game. Another thing that I find a bit sad is, that the stitched characters graphics quickly lose their magic. If you look at the "how it was made" videos and photos they're just beautiful. Somehow I felt like that was a bit lost when digitalizing them. All in all I had an interesting journey though the slavic medieval times and I will read up a bit on the underlying folklore in the following days, as I'd like to understand a bit more of the symbolism and characters shown in the game.

我不喜欢，偏初学者向，无论是剧情还是操作解密难度，都很照顾游戏萌新，也没啥吸引我的亮点，这个价格我觉得不值。

Music, art and storytelling is really good. There's a bit in the middle where you get swept up into a slavic fairytale which was most excellent - the devs do a good job with confident, understated story telling. I think the price is fair, and even though it was short I wouldn't have wanted it to go on much longer. It's a good experience and that has value. One small negative is that I hit a bug that softlocked me early on - I had to play through 15 minutes or so of the start to get back to where I was (on first entering the cave, falling down a ladder after getting your torch, I couldn't interact with something that was blocking the way). I suspect the reviews would be kinder on issues like this if there was a way to load earlier checkpoints to work around bugs.

It was something. Thank you.

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