The forest what is the meaning of the game. The Forest: How to find your son, or the eternal question of the game. The walk through the forest begins

The main idea of ​​the game The Forest is survival in the forest. The main character and some other guy crash, I don’t understand where, but obviously very far from civilization. No food, no water, no weapons - nothing. Where to go is unclear, what to do and what to do is also in question. The ax in your hands is like a hint - it’s time to craft. And okay, you just need to get food and warm yourself up on cold lonely evenings, fortunately there is enough food and firewood in the forest, but as luck would have it, the hero does not live alone in this wild place. Where the boy went and why the aggressive natives took him is a mystery.

Somewhere nearby, in dark, damp and gloomy caves, hungry cannibals are hiding, in some places resembling mutant zombies. One of them, at the very beginning of the game, drags away a wounded boy, and after that the flock of them returns for the GG. That, in principle, is the whole essence of the game. Do not die from cold, hunger, and at the same time do not become food yourself. Not new, but on trend, so to speak, and may be of interest to modern gamers.

In the game we survive, nothing more, at least for now nothing is known about additional features. Maybe there will be a plot (to save the same guy) or something similar, with goals and a logical conclusion.

So far, as in the famous “survival” games, after death we are shown how many days our carcass lived in the forest, and this, most likely, is the only logical conclusion. Survival is put at the forefront and people start dancing because of it. This is fashionable now, so this scheme will most likely not change for release.

Survival itself is more like what was demonstrated in Don’t Starve, and not in Rust, as it might seem at first. We have resources, enemies, indicators with lives, satiety, temperature, etc. So it just won’t happen. Craft. As I already wrote, we can craft, and quite a lot of all sorts of junk. Weapons, barricades, traps, scaring signs from the remains of Aboriginal people and even real houses. The construction is not block-based and is not flexible at all, rather it is more like building from slabs, like in the game Rust. Now, for obvious reasons, the list of crafts is small. But they promise a decent assortment for the finale.

Horror. Here is my holey head, I forgot to write. This is also a horror game that should make the player sweat and send chills down the spine in droves. At least that's how the developers position it. And so far, according to first impressions, the horror is turning out well. The atmosphere is the most luxurious.

Just remember the first awakening in the cave after a successful attack by the freaks. I really felt like the hero of that horror movie “The Descent,” when tourist cave divers perished under the attacks of blind ghouls deep underground.

It’s dark, cold, hungry, and this damn lighter is about to go out, leaving the player alone with the darkness and the creatures living there. Thanks to the phenomenal quality graphics, all these effects are achieved very quickly. For such projects, by the way, the picture is too overdressed, in the good sense of the word. Partly. On this moment The Forest is not just an alpha, it’s more like a deep beta version where nothing really works. I wouldn’t recommend buying the game now, it’s not just crude, it’s not really put together yet. Some textures haven’t been screwed in yet, the water doesn’t work, the combat system is lame, and I’m generally silent about the amount of content.

At the moment, the frame of the game and its engine are for sale, which demonstrates the direction of development, nothing more. And judge for yourself, receiving content bit by bit from updates, will you be able to enjoy the game? Most likely when it comes out full version, those who have played enough alpha will not be able to get the desired sensations in full.

The Forest definitely interesting project. It's really worth waiting for its final version, but for now, limit yourself to watching the video and go racing in Rust. If I couldn’t convince you, then you need to look for it on steam.

edited news Melford - 2-07-2014, 18:49

The topic of today's review is The Forest project. The question "How to find my son?" Quite often asked by many gamers who have already experienced the entire intricate plot of the game. Today we will talk to you about what kind of toy this is and how you can answer the question about the search.

Tangled plot

Before talking about The Forest project, how to find your son and where he is hiding, let's see what kind of game this is. The plot begins with the main character (let's call him Ben) flying in a half-empty plane somewhere with his offspring. At the same time, he is watching some horror movie on his laptop. Non-existent film. Suddenly the plane crashes. He is torn to pieces, but Ben and his son manage to escape. The main character sees a native taking his child somewhere.

This is how The Forest begins. "Where can I find my son?" - a question that arises, as we see, from the first minutes. If you look around, you will notice that around “our” wreckage of the plane there are things of other passengers lying around. In total, about 130 people and crew were supposed to be on board. Ben realizes that he is “almost” and has to look for his child. So, the central idea becomes the main question of The Forest: “How to find my son, and what happened to him?” But in reality, not everything is so simple.

Oddities

Now you have to explore the crash site and look for your child. True, there is still the task of finding all the survivors (the dead are also counted). Places where people have already been are so-called camps. Each time Ben finds them, you will have a "meter" showing the number of survivors.

When you first appear in the world of The Forest, where it will be very difficult to find your son, you will begin to find tennis balls that will accompany the player throughout the game. After wandering around a little, you will be able to find a special card, thanks to which the secret of the balls will be revealed. In the young part of the island there is the so-called Tennis place (they just took the boy from the plane).

We continue our review of The Forest. How to find my son? What needs to be done? With such questions, the main character rushes to the place Tennis and discovers the answer to the balls found there. Namely, the mutilated bodies of their friends and tennis teammates. Here it becomes clear that the entire team was on the plane and was flying somewhere. For some fees. The plot begins to seem even stranger. Let's see what's going on here.

Where is the boy?

Of course, the central question of The Forest is “Where can I find my son?” After Ben discovers the bodies of his comrades, the plot changes dramatically.

The fact is that the main character always wanted to have a family. However, he devoted quite a lot of time to sports and had practically no time for family matters. So, one day the coach called him to a training camp and competition. Ben fell asleep on the plane - this is where our game presumably begins. Thus, everything that happened before the crash was just a dream. There was no son named Timmy, and the illusions are confirmed by watching a non-existent horror movie. That is, the answer to The Forest’s question “How to find my son?” can be expressed in one word - “no way”.

True, this option is just an assumption of some players. The only truth here is that Ben is a tennis player. The rest is hypotheses put forward by fans. The developers did not give any explanations. There is another assumption about what is happening here and how to find the boy.

Is the impossible possible?

All that is known now is that during the entire existence of the game, no one ever found the boy, and also did not see the final credits. It turns out that all this time the players are simply wandering around the world in search of adventure.

If you adhere to the second point of view regarding the plot, then Timmy can be found. True, for this you need to complete a number of tasks. For example, find all passengers on an airliner. However, at the alpha testing stage there is no such possibility yet - the map is too small.

However, there are a number of assumptions about what to do after you have already searched the entire island. According to some players, all passengers need to be found and killed, after which we find our son in The Forest, build a raft and fly away far away from damn island. Thus, the opinions of the players are already divided.

In addition, you can come across statements that say that the game does not and will not have any plot at all. Unless the main character grows old and dies. Well, or the whole point will be the most ordinary survival among the natives and unknown creatures. So the question about The Forest is: "Where is the son?" - still remains open.

On the peninsula
It is assumed that the peninsula is located in Canada or another similar area located in the north, due to climate, animals, geography and the location of the developers. It includes most of the settings for the forest, and includes both an extensive underground cave system and big mountains, in addition to the main forest. It is assumed that the caves suffer from regular collapses, the sounds of which the player can hear while in the caves. Some bodies (such as the Christian missionaries inside) are in a location accessible only with a rebreather.

Alleged events before the game's plot
Something falls onto an unnamed peninsula, forming a crater. Local cannibals used the artifacts found there and created mutants. Soon missionaries arrive on the peninsula. They try to teach the cannibals Christianity, but the latter release mutants on them, and they, in turn, drive the missionaries into caves, before dying they write a message in Latin (the words are written with errors. The only thing that could be translated is a woman with four legs, some the babies are dead, the crosses don't help, the traps are useless), they leave a sketch of Virginia and a sketch of the crater. A year later, miners, divers (where is the rebreather and flashlight on the island from?) and others arrive on the island normal people for the sake of exploring the island and mining gold. Among the corpses in the caves there is a magazine, one of the headings on it reads: 7 people went down into the caves. Only one returned. He sailed away on the ship they arrived on, and for some reason the anchor fell off the ship. And this same person tells the public about this, as another magazine says with one of the headlines: “Ancient artifacts. Can the device return to death.” After this, scientists from the Sahara corporation arrive on the island and build the well-known laboratory for the purpose of studying artifacts. Realizing that they will need test subjects, they begin to kidnap children. In parallel with this, Matthew Cross divorces his wife with whom their daughter decides to live. Additionally, something causes Matthew to get fired and leave the island. A group also arrives on the island to film a film about missing children. After filming the film, they are going to sail away, but under some circumstances they all die. Their cells are scattered throughout the island, as are the missionary boats. At the same time, Matthew's daughter Megan dies. He steals her body, arrives at the laboratory, which by that time had already been destroyed, shoots down the plane with our hero, it crashes, Matthew turns red, posing as a cannibal, and takes our son. And this is where the game begins.

Plot.
The hero (judging by the list of passengers, Eric Leblanc) and his son are flying somewhere. But suddenly the plane crashes onto the peninsula. The hero and his son survive, but his son is carried away by a certain red man. The hero gets accustomed to the peninsula, finds a passage to the laboratory complex and gets into it after finding the key card. Moving through the laboratory, he learns about the activities of the bunker, the fate of the red man and information about certain artifacts found on the peninsula. During the search, the hero is smeared with red paint. In the end, the hero finds his son. Dead. The hero loses hope, but notices some pipes. He sticks them to his son, and learns that he can be resurrected, but at the cost of another person’s life. Walking through the premises, the hero finds Megan Cross, a girl who was resurrected by her father (judging by all the information found, he is a red man), at the cost of Timmy's life. She considered him a red man, showing on the toy that he shot down a plane, mutates before the hero’s eyes, and he enters into battle with her, eventually winning. He carries her body to the artifact, but it needs a living sample. Having lost hope, the hero walks through the laboratory and finds an artifact that can disable various equipment. We were shot down with this artifact at the beginning of the game. The hero shoots down the plane, thereby falling into the chain of events that Megan's father began. He, apparently, finds a living person in the wreckage of the plane and, with his help, resurrects his son. A year later, when the hero, along with Timmy, get out of the island, and the hero demonstrates his new book about survival on the island, and shows an ax (seemingly gold/modern) that helped him survive. But then Timmy begins to convulse, just like Megan did. The screen goes dark, but after a few seconds they show a shot of Eric holding his son and he opens his eyes. This is where the game ends.

Story items.
In update 0.18, story items were added. Drawings, photographs, scraps of magazines, etc., once found, go into the Notes section of the Survival Guide and are listed in the Notes article. Other items go into inventory. Their list:

Parts of a Timmy toy that can be assembled into a complete one;
Timmy's drawings;
Camera and 6 video cassettes;
Old photographs with symbols of caches - 8 in total;
Passenger list;
Key card;
Bible;
Cross.

Interesting Facts
Once picked up, story items go into your inventory (with the exception of photographs, which end up in the book).
The only story item that can be interacted with once picked up is the passenger list.
The Bible disappears after being found, possibly a bug.

The Forest review is based on materials from open sources, and the assessment is based on the project’s subjective opinion about the game.

In 2014, another survival game appeared in early access - The Forest, created by a small team at Endnight Games. After a long development, in 2018, it reached release. Another game from the survival series. Has she achieved her goals and is she worth it now? Let's take a look at The Forest together in this review.

First of all, it's worth keeping in mind that this game stands a little apart from the rest of the survival game series because it has a solid story line with a beginning and an end. The reason for the start of your adventures is explained quite clearly and clearly, without any omissions. You are flying on a plane with your son. Everything seems to be going well, but a plane crash occurs and the plane crashes. When you wake up, you discover that your son is missing. And he didn’t just disappear, but was kidnapped by the natives, and you are on the island. This is where your adventures begin.

The walk through the forest begins

As the name The Forest suggests, we will survive in... the forest! Unexpected, right? Moreover, unlike most games, where trees are scattered across the map, figuratively, in groups of five, here is a real forest. Nature, numerous plants and trees around, all this is your only salvation. The forest is your last defense against the mysterious creatures inhabiting the island. You will very quickly realize that you are not alone here, and the local fauna is by no means hospitable. The survival guide will teach you the basics of crafting, how to create a fire, temporary shelter, and more. For crafting, the forest resources around you are used: trees, stones, leaves. On a global scale, everything around you will be beneficial.

The natives living in this area consider this place as their refuge, as well as the area around it. And then suddenly they hear the sounds of your presence, for example, the fall of a tree you cut down. Know! The countdown to your survival has begun. Typically, there will be one native at first who will watch you from afar or follow you unnoticed through the forest and, if you decide to get curious and get closer, will run away. But later, the next day or even at night, a whole group will appear that will watch and put up their creepy totems, as if to show that you are not welcome here. But don't be upset, this is true.

In fact, you are not welcome here. And the sooner you understand this, the longer you can save your life before they come for you to take your unconscious body to their cave and eat you alive. Very soon you will realize that there is not one, but two tribes, very different from each other. Some people are cannibals, others are mutants. This will not bring you joy, since both are equally aggressive, with the only difference being that mutants leave the caves only at night.

What to do in the forest?

The goal remains the same: danger exists and you need to protect yourself. And once you wake up in the middle of the plane wreckage, your first order of business is to find safe place for your base. Whether it will be high on the rocks, on a raft in the middle of a lake or on a tree - the choice is yours, any option is possible. But this must be done quickly, because the night is dangerous. Night in the game is really pitch-black darkness. It is impossible to hunt, obtain resources, or even defend yourself. You will need to place various torches and various traps to protect yourself and your home. Know that, in addition to simple mutants and cannibals, one day terrible monsters will come to you, which can destroy all your fortifications. Be prepared and... Good luck!

The most effective tactic would be to perform as many activities as possible during the day - hunting, collecting resources, investigating the disappearance of your son. And continue building the base at night, especially since resources can be stored for this. Throughout the island you will find various clues for the development of the story: notes, notes, cameras. As well as tools for your survival, for example, a chainsaw, gasoline, an ax. There are a lot of possible structures for construction in The Forest, but some require rare objects, such as rope, batteries, etc.

Don't let yourself die

A review of The Forest revealed that the best loot is found in caves, accessible through all sorts of gaps, wells, or even underwater tunnels. But in the caves, remember, the jokes are over. And be prepared to run very fast. The more days pass, the more adrenaline in the world of The Forest. You can easily get lost, especially at night. And since the temperature can drop very quickly, you need to hurry before you die from hypothermia. The same goes for hunger and thirst. Always think about taking something to consume during your explorations, otherwise your stamina will drop and you won't have the strength to defend yourself or escape.

Although the game was developed by only four people, it is quite good in detail. It has its own atmosphere and very good sound design. The forest is truly alive. Naturally, there are some bugs, but updates for the game are still coming out and the game is changing, and not at all for the worse. As evidenced by the various screenshots that dot this review, the game is beautiful and the atmosphere really works 100%

The Forest review is coming to an end, but before you head out to play, you might want to take a look at The Forest's minimum and recommended system requirements.


in the next issue of the forest he will say that mutants were created by miners to protect gold, but something went wrong)

Xomcheek xr


Let's do it Fran Bow
I think there will be a ton of theories


There’s just one thing I don’t understand: a ship with such a large anchor must be quite long. And considering that the anchor is also Admeraltiysky, this means that the ship is from the 90s and even earlier. Such anchors were also used on large ships. therefore, in order to operate the vessel, a crew of at least 10 people is required. And the question is: how could one person leave the whole ship alone, without the necessary qualified personnel. For there are mechanics in the engine room who put the ship’s engines into working condition, and there is a wheelhouse from which control is carried out. It would be physically impossible for one person to sail anywhere independently on a ship of the estimated size, no matter how much he or she wanted to.

Misha Boychuk


damn, the plot is no worse than in resident evil 7, but the horror is the same

Ayan Doshchanov


Let's talk about the second Outlast 2. To the top so I can see it.

Online GAMER


I am also one of the theorists and I discovered an error in your text, I went through The Forest and every time I passed through I found cassettes for a video camera, a video camera can be found in the bunker and after looking at these cassettes you can see that the “red” man or Matthew Cross is on a helicopter which can found in a quarry flew to the island and his daughter was sick with something, she was in a wheelchair and SHE WAS ALIVE and people were still calmly walking around the bunker; on one piece you can see Matthew Cross and his daughter Megan Cross standing and looking at the mutant octopus behind the glass and suddenly he bursts in, throws Matthew aside and runs at Megan, thereby it can be revealed that Megan Killed the Mutant is already on the island and your mistake was that Megan and Matthew were older on the island and he knew that this artifact turns children into freaks and documents about dismissal! They were presented to him because they thought that he had released the mutant into the wild and started this house. Well then the question arises: why did he resurrect her if he knew about it! ? And how that helicopter ended up in the quarry, I can also explain: someone tried to escape from the island, but his attempt was a failure! When Matthew realized that Megan had died, he was in despair and he knew that if his wife found out about this, he would go to prison and he I decided to resurrect her so as not to serve time in prison. Please like it so he can see it!


Hadi, when I was playing Forest, I found a book where the main character and his son are located. I think she's on the plane


MAKE a theory on scp please
khadi / guys go to the top ^_^ !!!

Denis Shevel


I understood that red man wanted to save his. Daughter

Maga Abdulgamidov


I rethought everything and then my brain went crazy! this is a plot idea straight for Hollywood


Make a theory on Bendy and the ink machine

Sasha Belly Cat [Closed for a while]


Creepy Theories, please answer in 2018


I wrote Khadi in the previous video and I want you to make a theory about Alphys and that her head looks like GasterBlaster Sanka!

P.S. Come on Hadi, I'm sure everyone will agree with me that it will be interesting!

Aslan Aubakirov


make creepy theories about the game Don"t starve please

 

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