Year: 2014
Genre: Indie, 2D, Abstraction, Installation
Developer / Publisher: Simogo
Platform: PC

Version: 1.0

Publication Type: License
Language: Russian (ZoG Forum Team / Translation Version: 0.5 from 06.08.2014), English
Crack: Present (HI2U)

System requirements:

 > OS: Windows XP / Vista / 7
 > Processor: with a frequency of 3 GHz
 > Memory: 4 Gb
 > Video: 1 Gb memory / compatible with OpenGL 2.0
 > Hard disk: 1 Gb of free space

Description:

 Year Walk - an adventure game from the studio Simogo. The plot tells of the Year Walk travel on alternative universes and washes the line between reality and illusion. Through the first-person perspective players travel the world Year Walk and solve various puzzles based on logic and physics.

Information:

At the heart of Year Walk is now lost Swedish custom Arsgang («circulation per year") - at least a millennium, so that it is reflected and Christian practice of fasting and pilgrimage, and pagan sacrificial rituals of divination and hallucinogenic visions. Experience Arsgang Swedes was to the eve of the sacred holidays (not just Christmas and New Year, but also, for example, the summer harvest festivals) a day, or even week, refuse to eat, heat, light, and human society. That is, lock yourself in some cheese and a dark closet and count myself seconds and minutes. After all these hardships "coming year" at midnight to be released from his hiding place and go through the forest to a nearby church cemetery. It was believed that the way people visited the prophecies that can be folded into a picture of the future - to predict weddings or funerals, harvest or famine, plague or war. At the same time the forces of evil, more than anything else horrifying human wisdom, the travelers that there are forces prevented: plant in the thicket, sends wild animals tried to bring to mind. In general, the road to the temple there is not all.

 Hardly vision these pilgrims were as varied and frightening, as in Year Walk, because the game has managed to combine half a dozen Scandinavian folk myths. One of the most interesting - the legend of the horse out of the brook, Bäckahästen, luring kids to ride on his back, and plenty narezvivshis diving to the bottom. The more children killed the horse, the longer its mane. It is clear that this is just a horror story, designed to keep the small fry from swimming, but with river horse related and more sinister legends. Once a young miner, returning from work in the village, decided to take a swim in the creek and saw in him a stone, like a child. When he took it out of the water horse came to the human body, and held out his hand. Shakhtar fled in terror. In the camp, when he told the story, he got a mysterious stone and found that it became a regular cobblestone. Miners laughed at him, calling drunk. And in the morning Man found dead in bed. His lungs were filled with water, and the stone had disappeared. The encyclopedia Year Walk can find dozens of such stories.

Review:

Swedish studio Simogo annexes for the gaming industry a new space - frightening Scandinavian myths. Now on PC!

 If Soviet hedgehog wandering in a daze, somehow dobrel to Swedish borders, he would have been in Year Walk - Named in ashes Scandinavian forest. There's a muddy river lives a sad monster with a horse's head, with the windmill blades dripping blood, in furnaces abandoned huts smoldering dead babies, and the trees hung with strange dolls. All these meetings have to go through and test - make to know the future. It is for the prophecy goes on Christmas Eve journey in forestry protagonist Year Walk.

 Designed by two Swedes of Simogo whether this quest, or an interactive graphic novel about a year ago is already out on iOS - and led to a complete delight all who sort of activity (or inactivity) want to have a video game quickly became a full-fledged art. We have a mobile version of its unique charms - at some point there, for example, had to portray the display baby steps - but it lacked the essential: total immersion in the thriller, which can only give a familiar childhood radiance screen inky night. Release of the game on the PC in this regard is even more important than it seems.

 In a set of artifacts and mysterious figures difficult to discern the next puzzle.

 The action takes place in Sweden in the 19th century - in a fixed once Burton in "Sleepy Hollow" the era of the last clash of legends and miracles of science first. Face of the protagonist we do not see, nor know the motives that led him to go on a dangerous pilgrimage. It seems to be in an unhappy love affair, but everything seems to be more complicated. Way that these Swedes have held for days and weeks, we will cover a couple of hours. Is not that scary, but I wonder: Year Walk on the world map opens a new space for the mystical horror, in which always will return - not once. Gloomy Scandinavian metaphysics already famous by the music industry (think monsters with "Eurovision") and series (Danes, Norwegians and Swedes in recent years, composing the best detectives in the world). Now to the Western European, Japanese and American horror story in video games added Scandinavian.

 The regiment Limbo, Journey and The Path arrived, but do not dare call this Year Walk artistic leader of the gang. It's not even that the project does not work as a game: no one demanded Simogo complex puzzles, easy navigation and dynamic gameplay. Problem Year Walk in the weak integration of text (rich, terribly interesting and cleverly written) in the visual range (also amazing). Roughly speaking, the game consists of two parts. First - a small "Vicky", compiled by some Doctor of Philosophy is based on his book "The manifestations of evil in folklore." The second - a grim slideshow something like "Yandeks.Panoram" made in the universes "Hedgehog in the Fog", "Silent Hill", Lindqvist novel "Let Me In" or at least "Blair Witch Project." Here two dozen locations, little interactivity, moving arrows couple of spectacular scenes on the engine.

 If the authors had found a way to somehow link between these veins of gold, would have been a great interactive story - a bit of folklore "Guardians" by Alan Moore. Plexus text and gameplay - hardest work that at different poles gaming industry - in the mainstream or indie, decide on his own. World of BioShock, for example, littered with notes, diaries, letters and broadcasts. In other RPG - particularly from Bioware - integrated whole libraries. In the indie drama Dear Esther hero a whisper in the ear of the epistolary novel. Authors Year Walk the path of least resistance, making the game-traveling separately, and an encyclopedia of folklore - separately. Well, at least they showed the way. Waiting for new expeditions in the Norwegian forest.

Installation:

 1. Run setup.exe and install the game, following the instructions of the installation
 2. YearWalk_ZoG.exe run from my ZoG Forum Team and install the crack in the game folder
 3. Copy the contents of the folder Crack in a folder with a game, followed by the replacement of the original files