Review | Forgotton Anne is a beautiful indie adventure game full of characters and puzzles that you are going to remember
A puzzle-platformer that sways between rousing adventure and melancholy reflection, Forgotton Anne constantly amazes with its incredible animation and quirky cast of characters – though the storyline is a bit predictable
Forgotton Anne
Square Enix Collective
3.5 stars
I wonder what philosophers or poets would make of Forgotton Anne, a sumptuously animated game about a place where forgotten things go when people lose track of them.
In this vibrant refuge, so redolent of Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki’s animated films, things hailing from the “ether”, or real world, can acquire consciousness. In the land of the “forgottons”– the peculiar second “o” indicates that it should be read as a noun – what separates a regular boot from, say, a self-conscious one is “anima”. Things endowed with anima can chat and are imbued with anthropomorphic feelings.
Among the game’s quirky cast of characters is an automaton given to grandiloquence, a Tiffany lamp that inclines towards sentiment, a magnum pistol that is sensitive about his professional stature, and a blanket that is fond of reminiscing.