Forestia (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Daddy Oak |
| Publisher(s) | LaserMedia |
| Platform(s) | Windows, Mac OS |
| Release | 1998 |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Forestia is a 1998 point-and-click edutainment video game by French developer Daddy Oak. With a first-person presentation mixing traditional animation and pre-rendered 3D, the player explores a forest, collecting flora and funga and photographing fauna. There are 9 chapters to complete, randomly ordered.
Synopsis
[edit]The Painting Present: The player needs to craft a painting as a birthday gift to Daddyoak, an anthropomorphic tree.
The Clouds: The player rides an airship to a mountain top to compete with Sam about who is the faster one to identify and draw animals from clouds.
The Little Siren: The player helps a mermaid to seek out scattered treasure.
The Enchanted Mushrooms: Various forest animals become brightly recoloured with polka dots after touching mushrooms, and the player needs to undo the affliction by arranging mushrooms in a fairy ring correctly.
The Fire Mountain: The most infamous and well known part of the game; everything turns red, a dragon tells player to stop the evil sorcerer Morhurl from destroying the forest, done by rearranging the crystals at Morhurl's tower.
The Rocking Horse: The player crafts a rocking horse which was left unfinished by a lumberjack.
The Little Squirrel: The player plays a nature quiz board game with a know-it-all squirrel.
The Music Festival: After a party, the player participates at the local workshop in building musical instruments and a memory matching game.
The Queen of the ants' Secret Service: The player drinks a magic potion to shrink in order to enter an ant colony to deliver gift to an ant queen.
Reception
[edit]The Hungarian magazine PC Format scored the game 78%.[1] The Portuguese magazine Revista Player gave the game five stars.[2]
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