Heart of the Forest

1. The production quality is very high. 2. Please do yourself a favor and don't watch this pile of ****. My wife and I watched it together, it takes about 2.4 hours and it's the most boring movie we have ever witnessed! - Simon touches everything! - All speak very basic English like "How are you?" and "Should we go in this cave?" (NO YOU SHOULDN'T!) - Again: The story is ultra super boring! - The movie is slooooooooooooooow like hell. Everything draaaaaaaaaags into eternity! - There is NOT ONE SINGLE conversation in this movie like: "Oh, what? A monster touched you?" "Yes, it was right back there" "Oh then maybe we shouldn't go there again" - you know - just normal conversation between human beings. Don't say I didn't warn you. The decision tree was cool at the end - My wife and I were relieved that with some decisions the movie was shorter than it could be - we skipped some large chunks with our decisions, phew!

If you have no interest in a gay love story then avoid this entirely because you will not like it at all. Steam really needs a middle ground option instead of forcing a simple yes or no recommend because this one lands right in the middle and it is frustrating that there is no proper way to reflect that. I am going to be generous and say yes but only with serious caveats since the main story for this FMV is decent with good acting and themes that hold up reasonably well. What really annoys me is how the Steam page description should have been far more honest. You play as two gay couples one lesbian pair and one male couple plus their one straight friend and let us be real this is a gay love story with a token straight man along for the ride. There is nothing wrong with that in itself but it is a niche theme and some people simply have no interest in these subjects in a movie game. The biggest failing is the complete lack of any clear signal about this rainbow focus so not everyone will like it and they should have been much more upfront about the subject matter instead of leaving buyers to find out after purchase. Other than that particular problem the rest is fairly decent.

Good grief what an ordeal. I've not even finished it, I have to take breaks because it's so monotonous. Four uncharismatic people get lost on a woodland hike and there's something weird going on. If watching four people wandering round some woods shouting each others names sounds like a worthwhile way to spend your time then go for it. Then two other people show up and even though one of them is psychotic the whole thing still manages to be much less interesting. Honestly, if you want a spooky time, grab your flashlight and take your own walk in the woods at midnight.

This was a way to kill time. Spooky and not dookie

Love The Setting, The Story, The Mystery of it all, and Trying to get all the scenes/endings. But I never really fell in love with the characters ... apart from Nick, he's cool :) My main issue was in the dialogue, don't know if it was the writing or just because the actors weren't speaking their first language, but at times it felt a bit amateurish and not believable. I do recommend the game though, I enjoyed it.

This is one of two FMVs I have played and I genuinely enjoyed it. I streamed the initial playthrough and have since been running through trying different choices to fill out the story tree. I became obsessed with trying to save Nick and I finally did.