Children are in a hurry to grow up so that you can do what they want, and not what adults are ordered. And only when they grow up, they understand that real freedom remained there, in carefree school years. This is exactly what happened to May: having studied three semesters, she flew out of college and decided to return. And not just home, but in a beautiful carefree adolescence! She believed that everything remained there the same as a year and a half ago ..
► falling leaves, dying city. Sometimes death looks so beautiful and bright!
With a bat and guitar
All that May wants is for a long time to hang out with friends, and spit that they are losers. And she also wants to wander around the city, play a bass guitar, wear rebellious T-shirts, destroy a baseball beat of garbage tanks, dare passers-by, argue with parents, break the donuts in unlimited quantities and do more a bunch of everything. The main thing is that it is as pointless as possible.
May does not want to make fateful decisions, does not seek to “look for her place in life”, like taldych boods-adult. And why, because still someday the end of the world will happen, and we will all die. You can even speed up the process. For example, to lock up in the house and set fire to it. But laziness.
► Sometimes we will switch to the first -person look and control May's paws.
May hoped that she could simply return to the past. But the insidious time does not stand still. The unremarkable town of Opissum-Springs (the named, probably in honor of a certain outstanding … Oposum) is still changing. And not for the better: coal mines on which the townspeople worked, went bankrupt, and if you believe the rumors, something mysterious and dangerous appeared in the forest, which can make a lot of troubles and even erase the city from the face of the earth. Simply put, you won’t get a bright future here, and everyone who understands this is leaving.
Friends move away, turning quietly into strangers – they have new interests and troubles. And some also intend to fade from the town. And May herself gradually becomes different. But to come to terms with changes and begin to equip your own life – no, this is not in its style!
► Graff stole from a neighbor May Greet Dwarf, and now he offers to rob his own boss. He is serious?
She continues to huddle in the old room in the attic of her parental house with teenage stubbornness and wander around the city noblecakes, climbing into the most remote quarters. Than to work hard at a day at a day, it is much more interesting to listen to the stories of random oncoming, many of which are homeless, someone has a prolonged depression, someone is a chronic alcoholic, and others-all at once ..
But still, May deeply understands that a lot has become different, constantly angry and is sad on the passed days. And in order to overcome attacks of rage, keeps a diary on the recommendation of a psychotherapist.
Oh yes, they almost forgot to tell you: May – Black Cat.
We just stopped friends
► Each passerby has its own small story, which will be part of the general annals of the city.
The whole city is inhabited by animals similar to people. Or people very similar to animals. Here's how to see. They live ordinary human lives and experience the whole spectrum of human emotions, close to us with you.
Here Bea – she seems to be an alligator. Once she was May's best friend, but then they just took and stopped friends: more and less meetings, more and more missed phone calls. Excellent and desperate cuff, Bea easily entered college. But her mother died tragically, and her father still has not recovered from loss. The girl had to return home to conduct a family business and be near dad. Bea does not let out a cigarette from the fangs and wears the Egyptian ankh on the neck. For what? Why? But the dog knows him. By the way, the dog lives on a neighboring street.
► die tomorrow or live forever? May will not decide what suits her more.
And here is the fox of the graff, the inexorable charming boor and friend May. He has an excessively close friend – Angus Bear. They work together, spend all their free time together and even walk along the street, holding on to the paws. Citizens are constantly whispering behind them, but they should. Like many, a sweet couple hopes to once break out of a dreary dying outback to where no one will condemn them.
And this is jam, he is a bird. Perhaps the raven. No one knows almost anything about him: where does he come from where and what does he do. Jam once joined the company, that's all. He is quite cute, although with his "cockroaches". And parasites in feathers.
May is longing on glorious school days, when they spent the days all together, dangled aimlessly around the city and frantically ran into troubles. Now they are united only by the restless attempts by May to return the good old past. Well, the desire to break out of hopeless despondency Opusum-Springs.
Constellations and donuts
► The world seems flat and schematic, and all the more interesting to stumble on convincingly accurate details. For example, menu at a kiosk with pastries.
In the demo version that developers show reporters, there are not so many. At first, two ponders rushed, and then, sitting on the side of the road, discuss life, rock music and nightmares. There is almost no gameplay, and the whole presentation is devoted to teenage thoughts about trifles that seem to them unusually important. Or is it really important?
And there is a mini-game on the official website-you can personally join it. Here the four friends spend the longest night in the year in the forest, by the fire. While they are admiring the stars, we need to connect heavenly luminaries into the constellations with guitar strings. May will be surprised that he does not freeze, being mentally in space, and can even breathe. And Bea will indulge in their fading friendship. And at this time, Graff and Angus will conduct an express study of the names of the constellations-including the constellation of fish. Although here, in their opinion, everything is obvious – after all, the fish is fish, who does not know this!
Friends are transferred by remarks – witty and not very, cruel and philosophical, play in tune and subtexts. And then Angus begins to cry.
► The neighbor doesn't like it when they walk on its roof. Well, even if I don't like it further ..
You might think that Night in the Woods First of all, there should be about how the eccentric cat deftly rushes along the roofs, climbs trees and jumps on wires. But a year after a successful campaign on Kickstarter, the focus of the attention of developers shifted from simple arcaste-platform tasks (although it will not do without them) to the ornate dialogs and the creation of an enhanced depression. And we will also solve puzzles and often wield a baseball bat – after all, it is better not to pull May once again by the tail!
But the main message is an elusive time. When beloved people and things go into oblivion, everything changes – and not always the way I would like. This is a story about how we cling to a straw, when everything flies around in tartarara. And that sometimes nothing can be fixed.
Running tax on roofs
► Running to the left, run to the right, jump, triple jump, look around, spread a pair of phrases. Here is almost all the cat possibilities.
The dying town, despite the sad fate, looks deliberately bright and artificially alive. Autumn leaves fly from trees chosen by the population of squirrels. Toy car carriers rush along the roads. And in the house of my parents May, rugs, vases, family photos everywhere. “We were so sweet then!" – May admits to herself.
There are a lot of corners of varying degrees of availability, into which the young energetic cat can climb, jump and climb. However, those around them do not particularly approve her research impulses. Father swears that you will have to change the broken mailbox again, and the neighbor requires an additional tax on all who climb the roofs – Squirrel, rats and May.
In every city hike there are many stories and those who BOF Casino are ready to tell them. To get to the most hidden, May will have to use the astral projection of herself. The details of the mechanics are kept secret, but most likely it will work in the spirit of recent Whispering Willows. Having stumbled upon a closed door, we can draw a ghost of a cat through an obstacle to pull some lever on the other side and unlock the passage. The main thing in all this is different – the authors promise that it will be hopelessly alarming, and in some places it is even scary.
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Talking animals and depression immersed in depression, traditional arcade jumps over obstacles and inventive dialogs, unusual two-dimensional style and charming music, eating donuts and expectation of the end of the world-all indie projects have such a scale!
The portfolio of developers adds confidence. Behind their shoulders is magical Aquaria, Burning TowerFall And stylish Paper Moon. Now they want to tell a story about a cat that does not want to become an adult, and promise to do it very extraordinary.
Success factors
Risk factors
- unusual charming heroes;
- stylish drawn picture;
- Non -standard problems are affected.
- The concept of the project has already changed, and where it will lead the game is not yet known;
- This is the first joint project of developers;
- The game is definitely an amateur.
We will wait?
A unique opportunity to get into the skin of a black cat playing a bass gitar, famously waking bat and prone to melancholy philosophy. We are waiting!
Expectations rating: 80%