At these times you leap in time to swelling music, and whoop and yell in spontaneous joy.
It’s also easy to stumble.
This is a little bit of a theme; it’s beautiful and then you run into a wall.
Or off a cliff.
But, then again, hiking on your own up and down the highland peaks is a dangerous job.
Sometimes she gets stuck on a climb up or climb down for unclear reasons.
Let me not run back and forth on this same section of level for another afternoon of game time.
You won’t reach the sea by Beltane on your first attempt.
The whole of A Highland Song is trying to maintain the tension between progress and difficulty.
Climbing mountains is hard for a teenager!
This felt contrary to the spirit of the game.
Bit of a mental skinned knee.
On your second and third playthroughs, things get a bit easier.
you’re able to also linger a little on the marvelous Inkle-y details in A Highland Song.
I fed a crow and then followed it to a hidden key.
A lion statue demanded to be fed… what?
I didn’t find it, among my pack of pinecones and old playing cards.
One night, by a huge dam, I met a ghost still waiting for his lover.
There is, as you would expect from Inkle, a story within the story to A Highland Song.
As a game trying to let us run into that wildness, it trips up sometimes.
I can only be grateful for A Highland Song making me feel that.
This review is based on a review copy of the game provided by developers Inkle.
