So I'm doing something now that I've never done before. I've been watching lets'play videos from CJU, and he did Fran Bow several years ago. This game is so weird that I've been running the video on my Roku YouTube app on the TV while playing the game. I'm staying a bit ahead of the video because I really don't want spoilers, but when I get seriously stuck I'm just going to the video instead of a WT. So far I'm doing a good 95% of the game by myself, and getting CJU's impressions is really fun. So this is kind of a nice strategy for me.
As CJU says, this game is really beginning to have an Alice in Wonderland vibe. It is very, very, very dark. The horror is actually horrible. We don't know if this is fantasy or is all in Fran Bow's mind. She's clearly a disturbed little girl, but I rather doubt that she slaughtered her parents. I doubt that a 10-year old girl could have pulled off that feat.
Well, I've finally reached the point where she finds her missing cat, Mr. Midnight. He's locked up, however, and Fran has to deal with some rather odd sisters to try to get him back. Getting to that point, we got out of the Asylum (end of Chapter 1), and through the maze and the forest. It turned out that I didn't miss anything by not conquering the maze, but it would have been nice to have won that puzzle anyway.
The imagination in this game is off the charts. Again, although I can't take screenshots and I'm sorry for that, far too many of those shots would be spoilers. But I'd love to show the stellar creativity of this game!
In the forest, Fran Bow had to deal with strange heads with long hair tangled in a tree, she had to try to save Mr. Midnight by killing an odd pig, she dealt with a pinecone family and a rat. Now she's literally down at the bottom of a well (oh dear--that thought makes me worry about the actual fate of Mr. Midnight).
At the bottom of the well we're in the sister's cozy little home, full of witchy things and Fran will seek the ingredients she needs for a spell. I've got one of the ingredients, but I stopped there. I'm actually still a bit ahead of CJU. Will get back to the game fairly soon. I want to finish this before Blackenrock is released, and I think (hope) that long-awaited event will occur in the next week or so.
This really is a fantastic game. If you can stand the darkness of Fran's world, or of her mind, as the case may be, the creativity is just amazing. And all done with a simplistic art style.
Wonderful. And disturbing. Onward!
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