The magic of ignorance
The gameplay reminds me strongly of the video games I played in my childhood.
Many of them had a strong exploration focus and bizarre game mechanics, the guidance of which was restricted to a few noncritical lines. Why can I shoot only in certain places? What are the circular beams? Why do I only attack a few specimens of the spherical extraterrestrial ? In the coming days, such questions pattered around my head...
In the world of Future Unfolding, there are no aliens or similar futuristic things - but a metaphysical-looking natural backdrop. Again, I can not see the forest in front of the trees. When you press the action button, miraculous things happen, which I can not explain at first (and which I will not talk about too deeply to avoid your fun of discovering). In the role of a human seen from top view, I walk around, experiment with all sorts of miraculous mechanics, and release new sections, lakes and caves when "puzzles" are solved successfully. Eventually in the course of the game one also understands how to complete a passage in the random-generated environments to get into a new area.
A walk in the direction of life
The reason for existence is the cornerstone of this title. In Future Unfolding we encounter a number of animals, sorts of forest sages who ask us more rhetorical questions than the others. They also offer poetry quotes from Henry David Thoreau, from his hymn to the discovery of the wilderness, Walking , or quotations from Margaret Thatcher who gave us a "society does not exist" , whose lyricism is sorely lacking, but which proves to be heavy with meaning and implication. Most of the time, the lyrics are philosophical and have a contemplative dimension. They question our relationship to the world and to ourselves, and we must admit that for those who like to ask themselves and enjoy a more meditative experience, this title is more than refreshing.
What actions bear meaning? What are the free shares? In the real world, we often act without knowing why, but we do it because we are told to do it because everybody does it because it is normal because it is imperative , and because that's how it is. Society is imbued with an omnipresent utilitarianism, actions being summarized with their most concrete results, we nourish ourselves with tangible, objective, material, without ever takingg advantage of the actions themselves, without ever reflecting on their more deep, without ever thinking about the real why. An action is, above all, a journey whose destination is often seen only. That's why Future Unfolding is a different experience: the developers offer us freedom in the pure state, very different from any open world that imposes us the shackles of a precise objective.
1I went through a very special moment in my gaming life. This is just an incredible game, beautiful. A game who appeals to your senses, to your capacity of thinking out of the box.
Love the concept. Pure originality should be rewarded.
A word to parents : This game is very kid friendly. My 7 years old kid loves it and I know for sure how this leave a print as a young gamer. A game he will remember all his life.