New Year's holidays are in full swing, which means it's time to start sorting out your gaming library. Dozens of new projects are released every day, so it’s worth keeping yourself in shape so as not to miss out on a lot of interesting things. My recent guest was the short adventure game Creepy Tale, which I had already played through in my time. Since my plans were to go through the entire trilogy, I didn’t want to miss out on the content of the first part.
The issue of children's fears is at the forefront of many horror works. Creepy monsters, darkness or the unknown - it is very easy to scare a child, because the world around him is huge and incomprehensible, and the absence of adults nearby creates a feeling of helplessness and vulnerability. Often, few people can be nearby and stand up for a defenseless little person, so in many cases you have to rely only on yourself.
The heroes of our story today also did not expect to get into trouble, but they did not have to choose. An ordinary walk through the forest in search of mushrooms turned into a terrible shock for two brothers and led them straight to mortal danger that loomed over the entire area. Evil has settled in the heart of the forest, abducting children at the hands of terrible giant monsters rotting alive who do not take other people's lives into account. Our brother has been captured by these creatures and there is no one around to help us. Therefore, it was on our fragile shoulders that the difficult mission of saving our brother fell. We cannot abandon our loved ones, which means it’s time to fight back the forces of evil.
Before us is a short quest where we will play the role of a little boy. Finding ourselves in the forest at the wrong moment, we witness the abduction of our own brother by terrible creatures and now our task is to find him in the dense thicket and rescue him from captivity. Our hero does not have any special abilities or skills, which means we will have to improvise. The dark forest is teeming with unfriendly creatures, so you will have to be vigilant. The gameplay consists of passing through limited levels in which we will have to look for tools and other available items to achieve certain goals. We have no health or stamina indicators, and besides, we are not able to protect ourselves, so any collision with ill-wishers will send us to a checkpoint. The game is replete with various puzzles and logic tasks, but they will not cause any problems for the average player, due to the presence of numerous tips.
Visually, Creepy Tale looks modest, but there is still something attractive about it. It feels like you are watching an old cartoon that is not subject to modern rules, so our attention will be presented to a wide variety of manifestations of cruelty. The main beauty of the game is that we can influence the events that take place and watch how evil gets what it deserves. I liked the soundtrack here, and the overall style pleased me with its folkloric quality. There is something from the Brothers Grimm in this game and it's great.
Creepy Tale is an excellent example of a laconic quest that manages to show the player everything planned in a short duration. No backtracking or pixel hunting - everything is extremely clear and on the surface. Of course, the plot here raises many questions, and the ending will not tell us anything, but it is precisely this understatement that will play a role in the future. The first part formed an excellent foundation on which future projects will be built. I liked what I saw and completed everything in one go. The puzzles are extremely clear, and the game events unfold quickly. A wonderful quest in the spirit of old fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, which can give you a lot of impressions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyPasl0-OVM
The issue of children's fears is at the forefront of many horror works. Creepy monsters, darkness or the unknown - it is very easy to scare a child, because the world around him is huge and incomprehensible, and the absence of adults nearby creates a feeling of helplessness and vulnerability. Often, few people can be nearby and stand up for a defenseless little person, so in many cases you have to rely only on yourself.
The heroes of our story today also did not expect to get into trouble, but they did not have to choose. An ordinary walk through the forest in search of mushrooms turned into a terrible shock for two brothers and led them straight to mortal danger that loomed over the entire area. Evil has settled in the heart of the forest, abducting children at the hands of terrible giant monsters rotting alive who do not take other people's lives into account. Our brother has been captured by these creatures and there is no one around to help us. Therefore, it was on our fragile shoulders that the difficult mission of saving our brother fell. We cannot abandon our loved ones, which means it’s time to fight back the forces of evil.
Before us is a short quest where we will play the role of a little boy. Finding ourselves in the forest at the wrong moment, we witness the abduction of our own brother by terrible creatures and now our task is to find him in the dense thicket and rescue him from captivity. Our hero does not have any special abilities or skills, which means we will have to improvise. The dark forest is teeming with unfriendly creatures, so you will have to be vigilant. The gameplay consists of passing through limited levels in which we will have to look for tools and other available items to achieve certain goals. We have no health or stamina indicators, and besides, we are not able to protect ourselves, so any collision with ill-wishers will send us to a checkpoint. The game is replete with various puzzles and logic tasks, but they will not cause any problems for the average player, due to the presence of numerous tips.
Visually, Creepy Tale looks modest, but there is still something attractive about it. It feels like you are watching an old cartoon that is not subject to modern rules, so our attention will be presented to a wide variety of manifestations of cruelty. The main beauty of the game is that we can influence the events that take place and watch how evil gets what it deserves. I liked the soundtrack here, and the overall style pleased me with its folkloric quality. There is something from the Brothers Grimm in this game and it's great.
Creepy Tale is an excellent example of a laconic quest that manages to show the player everything planned in a short duration. No backtracking or pixel hunting - everything is extremely clear and on the surface. Of course, the plot here raises many questions, and the ending will not tell us anything, but it is precisely this understatement that will play a role in the future. The first part formed an excellent foundation on which future projects will be built. I liked what I saw and completed everything in one go. The puzzles are extremely clear, and the game events unfold quickly. A wonderful quest in the spirit of old fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, which can give you a lot of impressions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyPasl0-OVM