A Highland Song captures the joys and dangers of being lost in a majestic Scottish wilderness
A Highland Song is the new game from Inkle, the acclaimed storyteller responsible for Heaven's Vault, 80 Days, Overboard!, Pendragon and the Sorcery! adaptations. And for this adventure, the genre has changed again. It's still a narrative game at heart but it's wrapped in a platforming shell. You play a young lady called Moira who yearns to see the sea and so runs away from home and into - and over - the Scottish Highlands in pursuit of it.
I've been very lucky, and 10 years later I'm still wobbling around on my feet, and if anything I walk even more now, and I'm more attentive to what walking feels like, its particular qualities. So it makes me really curious to play a game that is all about that. Do you think that's a fair way to categorise this game? Is that part of what you think Inkle is getting at here?
But it seems to be a tricky game to get hold of in terms of what it's really about, if that makes sense?YES! And the more I play, the more that's what I like about it. So it's a game about setting off on foot over hills and mountains, but the journey keeps giving you these choices. It starts off feeling like a classic left or right thing, but then you have all these moments where you can move into the screen, as it were, hopping from one 2D plane to another.
And it's this connection to a lineage as long and large as the mountains or hills themselves that captivates me. That there were people in these regions tramping these hills and mountains, building a respectful relationship with them, for countless years before me. How many people have had similar adventures here, or similar thoughts while peering up at the night sky?
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