Lengray
Forgotton Anne
Released in 2018

★★★★
9 hours - 17 of 33 achievements
Adventure Platformer

A classic tale of authoritarian upbringing and teenage rebellion, this game is gorgeous but marred by fiddly controls.

Let's be honest, for the first couple of hours I was totally in awe. Not only is the main character's animation spectacular (it reminded me of Studio Ghibli releases) but so are the rest of the visuals and the world-building. The idea of making forgotten objects have a life and world of their own is simple but very clever. I also really enjoyed the puzzles as they were pretty easy to solve and never stalled the progression. The story itself is okay but it's nothing we haven't seen before.

For a platformer, I expected the controls to be a little tighter. It could be due to the limited number of animation frames. The volume of the voice acting is also inconsistent at times, especially Anne's voice which tends to be too low to make out clearly. Why is some characters' talking louder than Anne's screaming?


This review on Steam if you want to mark it as helpful.
Trent

I like that you’re linking your reviews! Makes it easy to upvote it. ;-)
I didn’t think I wanted to play Forgotton Anne, but I took another look at it– it looks good. For some reason I thought it was more like A Hat in Time or Cuphead, but it seems to be more adventure / story-based than I realized.

Lengray

Thanks a lot. After the conversation we had some time ago, I decided to publish the reviews on Steam as well and linking the two seemed a good idea.
I’ve sent you a friend invite so I can see yours in my feed and upvote them too :)
I know reviews are always subjective but I try to keep mine short, to the point balanced. Since it’s very difficult to filter out all those one-line / meme reviews on Steam, having a decent number of upvotes is the only way to give honest reviews more visibility.
Regarding the second part of your comment, if I had to compare Forgotton Anne to another game I’ve played, that would be Gris, even though FA has a clearer story, voiced dialogues and less exploration.

Trent

Hi, Lengray! :) Thank you for the invite (happily accepted). I guess I should start writing more reviews now. *blush*
I haven’t played Gris yet, but I can see how you’d make the comparison. I’ve added it to my alt’s wishlist. If nothing else, I want to play it so I can find out why they deliberately misspelled “forgotten.” =)

Lengray

Apparently, it’s just old English for “forgotten”. The game doesn’t give you any clue about it and I had to look it up afterwards.

Trent

I have traded for Forgotten Anne and activated it on my alt’s account. So now it rests comfortably in my backlog. =)

Lengray

Enjoy :)