Forgotton Anne

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Posted on: December 28, 2018

jjv1001

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Games: 628 Reviews: 4

An obvious labor of love

The title basically says it all. What we have here is a lovingly crafted game. The sheer amount of unnecessary side characters with mind-bogling diversity all specially animated and charaterized. Mechanically, the game itself is fairly light platforming mixed with light puzzling sprinkled with a small amount of choice and consequence. The story, while nice, is quite linear and fairly predictable if you have any awareness of this kind of narrative. Occasionally gets a bit preachy but mostly maintains a pleasant fairytale wibe. In fact no single aspect of the actual game stands out. But still the game manages to charm.

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Posted on: December 17, 2018

Kiactus

Games: 831 Reviews: 4

Beutifull narrative platform game!

Forgotton Anne it's a very cute game, you will fall in love with everyone on Forgotten Lands! Visual art is stunning and the story really charming! Try it :D PS: Game is also in italian...

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Posted on: January 21, 2021

maladroid

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Games: 1866 Reviews: 11

Forgot to provide engaging gameplay

You can tell the devs had a story to tell and tried really hard to not make the gameplay overly intrusive or challenging for those who simply want to experience it. Unfortunately, they didn't entirely succeed. The experience is marred by uninspired puzzles and fiddly controls that get in the way of the narrative once too often. But the real bummer is that halfway through the story, the narrative itself starts to crumble under the weight of its predictable cliches and sloppy delivery. Some character beats are plain stupid (i.e. Anne's outburst at the beach) or painfully lame (like struggling to build Anne's emotional connection to a character we never heard of before) and made me lose interest in the characters' fates long before the dramatic final choice hit. Other dramatic beats just lack the punch that the authors intended and fall flat. At the end of the day, Forgotton Anne is a somewhat enjoyable affair carried by its charming premise and cute art style but brought down by unfitting gameplay and a lack of storytelling finesse.

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Posted on: August 9, 2019

Raging_Cascadoo

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Games: 381 Reviews: 1

Studio Ghibli in video game format

This game is a puzzle platformer and plays similar to the old school Prince of Persia and Abe games. The controls are not bad at all especially if you were accustomed to those type of games. While the puzzles are satisfying they are not very challenging overall. Just note that this is not a fast pace smooth flowing platformer like say, Ori of the blind forest. The graphics and animations are beautiful, just like one would expect of a studio ghibli film, however I did find that the backgrounds were a bit static in comparison but definitely a non issue. There are points in the game where you are forced to make a decision and that decision can affect certain scenario interactions with characters. There are only 2 endings in the game with one being rather dissapointing. This is my only gripe with the game as I thought that decisions should have had a much greater impact on the overall story and expanded into multiple endings being that it is a primarily story focused game. Still this really felt like playing out a studio ghibli film in video game format. It is a bit on the short side and can be completed in one day or on one playthrough. My initial playthrough took somewhere around 6-7 hours I believe. I highly recommend going into this without any knowledge of the story besides what is given in the trailer to get the best experience out of it.

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Posted on: April 21, 2019

leonphilc

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Games: 47 Reviews: 3

Beautiful visuals, horrible story

This is a charming game with gorgeous anime like visuals and a simple plataform with some puzzles gameplay. The controls are not the best and even tough simple, the gameplay is enough to keep you going through the story wich is the main focus of the game. And the story starts great, giving you a different and original world and intriguing you from the very beggining. However it gets really bad near the end. In this case, i could handle the usual overused story cliches (emotional induced exmachina, abstract explanation for important things) but the ending soured it for me big time. It is unsatisfactory and bad explained.

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