The goal is to move carefully and deliberately through an area without being spotted, and then get a clean vital shot. Fundamentally, the gameplay isn’t so different from a stealth/sniper title. Players can move around and explore in either first- or third-person perspective, then use rifle scopes once prey has been spotted. Hunting Simulator allows players to explore more than a dozen enormous maps across a hundred missions, crawling through deserts, hiking up hillsides, and creeping through brush in the hopes of sighting and shooting their intended targets. So, how good a job does it do from the viewpoint of someone like me, who knows absolutely nothing about hunting? The game simply wants to simulate hunting. There are no frills here, no fancy setup or elaborate narrative. It’s nice when a title serves as a statement of purpose. WTF How am I supposed to tell which of these sheep is legendarily formidable? They’re just sheep! LOW Being forced to hunt rabbits – again – to unlock the next level. This was not the meditation session I was looking for, leaving me more confused by the presentation of the game than relaxed.HIGH Finally tracking down a black bear on a moonless night. For me, I get more soothing for my soul by going for a walk and listening to the birds. As it stands, this is something that might catch gamers’ eye as a cheap pickup on the eShop. The trouble is this does nothing to stand out there are other better wolf options or walking simulators out there. This feels like a pretty good project for a new developer testing the waters in game development. A bland game where you walk from one point to another. One wonders if there was supposed to be more to the game at some stage that just wasn’t implemented. For some reason, your wolf has an attack button even though the game is devoid of any other presence to use this against. You can jump if you fancy just to mess around or leap on top of a rock I guess, but this is never used to overcome an obstacle. I didn’t feel I was getting the full spirit wolf experience since all I was doing was walking and sometimes swimming from one side of an area to another. An activity I think I would rather perform than play through this again.Ĭontrols are passable. It felt like something taken directly from a meditation CD or app. The soundtrack was okay, focusing more on the ambience, such as rain falling and birds chirping as you went into the more sunny environments. Not sure if this was a crash, but either way, all of this took me out of the experience. Performance just feels rough on Switch even when I started the game initially it cut to the main menu twice. While there are wide open landscapes, trees will pop into view, and if you tilt the camera too much, you see through the bottom of the game environment. It’s just you and the environment, no semblance of other life other than your own wolf existence. The graphics are incredibly bland and just lifeless. My friend has turned to stone Stroll in the Woods I guess one could look at this and say it’s a representation of working through depression or facing up to a difficult challenge, but it doesn’t present its message effectively. Then before you know it, the fox says, ‘I see the light,’ you walk into said light and the game returns to the main menu. Trees feel more alive with leaves, grass sprouts from the ground, and pockets of flowers bloom. As you move from area to area, the world feels a little more alive with foliage. From there, you literally walk through a bland open environment of trees and landscape.Īt one point, I found another wolf turned to stone, but it didn’t seem to relate to anything. In the text, the fox tells you, ‘it’s been raining for way too long’ just in case you couldn’t work that out, thanks to the ambient soundtrack. Playing as a mystical spirit fox, you begin in a dark area with rain pouring down. The game is about the journey from darkness to light. But if you stick around for the rest of the review, I’ll do my best to describe my experience. To keep it short, I do not recommend this one. I started playing it, and easily under half an hour, the experience was over. Probably for the first time writing for this delightful website, I was quite lost for words approaching a review for this title. There’s no challenge, no narrative, not really anything but a go from point A to point B experience. Lost Dream: Darkness is a short adventure game where you play as a spirit fox walking towards the light. Review code provided with many thanks to Ultimate Games. System: Nintendo Switch (Also on Steam (Windows))ĭeveloper|Publisher: Morning Shift Studios | Ultimate Games
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