

After 1h30 of play, we met activists who want to save the forest and we learned a lot about his family, but that’s it. The beginning of the story is quite slow. Music is more like ambient noise, which suits the game well, but certainly doesn’t serve to heighten mood the way a score could have. The muted colors serve the imagery of lush forest contrasted with decay very well. The pieces of art that act as the game’s backgrounds are gorgeous, and are an excellent blend of realism and abstraction. I liked mechanics the way increased Rage can lead to different options, or how Willpower can be spent on responses that yield quicker answers, but many choices seem like they’re just there for the sake of creating choice.The visual presentation is very good. It would require a lot of guesswork to explore multiple paths on multiple playthroughs. Assassin’s Creed: The Rebel Collection Switch NSP If I had one complaint about the structure of the narrative aspect, it would be that it functions more like a choose your own adventure book than a Japanese visual novel, as the player is often making choices and they are not always logic-based. I realize that these are likely an attempt by the developer to make the visual novel closely linked to the RPG it’s based on, but I could have done without them.

The game quickly explained how Rage, Health, and Willpower worked, and I quickly realized Maia Boroditch was the name of the protagonist, but the Homid and other stats remained a mystery I just had to accept/ ignore.

Right away the player is presented with numbers for Rage, Willpower, Health, date, time of day, something that says Maia Homid, spiritual, brave, inspiring, analytical, cunning, etc. The game starts with an overwhelming amount of stats that are not obvious as to their use. Heart of the Forest functions better as a visual novel than as an RPG. Oh, and her family history? Yeah, let’s just say there’s some canine in her DNA which she connects with as the story unfolds, courtesy of some environmental activists who may (or may not) be of the werewolf persuasion too. Telling the story of student Maia as she seeks to discover her family history at the Białowieża Forest in Poland, the novel quickly sees her becoming embroiled in a battle to protect the forest and the spiritual forces that reside within it from money-hungry loggers. Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest Switch NSP Free Download RomslabĪn interactive visual novel which serves as a perfect introduction to the decades-old Werewolf: The Apocalypse mythos.
