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Sid is a fiction author struggling with a creative block, attempting to recapture the feelings of inspiration he felt when he was younger. In order to pay the bills, he needs to think up a story and apply for a grant - the deadline is today - a lazy Sunday in t...
Sid is a fiction author struggling with a creative block, attempting to recapture the feelings of inspiration he felt when he was younger. In order to pay the bills, he needs to think up a story and apply for a grant - the deadline is today - a lazy Sunday in the middle of summer.
On this Sunday, his struggle is disturbed by an invitation to attend an unavoidable family obligation - The place Sid grew up in is about to be sold, and his mother wants him to come home for a small party so he can say goodbye to it. With the deadline approaching and his creative juices having frozen, this is not something he's looking forward to.
Join Sid as he reluctantly journeys back home, meets old friends, relives memories, and attempts to kick start his creativity back into gear. Also, take part in his creative process as you play through interactive sections depicting the story he's attempting to write.
Forgotten Fields is a warm, cozy game about nostalgia, creativity, appreciating the present, and the passage of time - a meditation on impermanence and the shortness of life.
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Looks great if you have the hardware to pull it off, but the story is just uninteresting. Having everything 3D modeled with a mobile camera doesn't make up for lack of adventure and immersion.
An uninspiring story about an uninspired writer -with gorgeous graphics.
Runs on integrated graphics by lowering quality and resolution a lot, but compared to other current games seems to demand too much for what you get.
If you're thinking of getting the full game, do yourself a favor and play this demo first -it may save you from a mistake.
It's all about the mood. Those simple graphics magically teleport you to the lazy summer day in a tropical island. You can feel a breeze from the ocean shaking the palm trees. Fantastic stuff.
It's unpolished though, so if you rotate the camera wrong, you can look at the bookshelf during dialogues. I hope they'll fix that and let you control camera more.
I am using Garuda Linux. I had only few issues with native games so far. In this case, material colours are not shown and since the game consists mostly of simple colour shading with one colour, almost everything was black, except for the sky or an environment texture on the windows. Text is rendered though.
I could not solve the problem, not even by downloading and trying with Steam runtime.
The Windows version worked. I can see all the colours. I noticed, the game is quite heavy or unoptimized despite simple graphics. Mouse delays were small enough when I selected "middle" graphics quality.
I noticed a lot of input and animation related bugs. At the very beginning, I could not rotate the camera before I took the first directional step (also on Linux). I can tolerate weird looking animations and the frequent "man" exclamation when they talk with each other but the movement with WASD is kind of curvy.
I was able to play until the main character Sid… sat on his scooter to drive to his parents and the dashboard was shown but I was stuck in that scene. No buttons and no mouse could be used.
The story itself was mediocre (middle) up to that point of time I played. It's an author who needs money and lost his creativity for some months. Check for yourself. Gameplay has been to walk through a 3D place and interact. At least the way of presenting it, walking through the home, then looking and interacting with the computer screen (a computer inside the computer), answering emails, checking the web browser, had some immersive immpression.
The menu options are bad, it's a misnomer. It only shows you an image of the controls + two mutable sliders with music and SFX volume. Button remapping is not available on Linux. It's a modal small window before the game loads on Windows.
The game is not un-interesting but since the demo is not working (which is rare), I cannot buy the game.
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