Within A Deep Forest

Reviewed by: DeathDude

Positive Points: Interesting concept
Superb music
Nice challenge

Negative Points: Loose controls
Some annoying parts

Genre: Arcade

Size: 17.8 MB

Requirements: Windows

Questionable Content: None

Editor rating: 4.3

Homepage: http://withinadeepforest.ni2.se/

Download Location: http://withinadeepforest.ni2.se/index.php?stuff=download

Chaos will soon be upon the world, so the story says. An evil scientist decided one day to built a bomb of sorts, oh but it's not like any bomb that just goes boom and that's it. Oh no because he is a scientist and an evil one to boot. As I was saying about this bomb, the scientist made the first attempt, which failed, ending up as a ball. However, the second attempt was successful. So could destruction and such be far behind? In Within a Deep Forest, it is your goal to guide your little round shaped ball to safely foil this scientist plot. Yeah guess all the super heroes were out or something but any ways that is your goal this time around. The game manages to succeed though with it's unique content, different game play and all around great music and even has some cut scenes, all in all a fun take in the platforming genre. 

So even with the second bomb, and the evil scientist's plan of it manages to detonate it will freeze the world! Forget some big explosion we got a freaking freezing world that could happen. Imagine snow and ice all the time, madness. Therefore, as the user you must help our little friends to try to save the world and find this bomb before worst comes to worst.

Graphically the game excels with its nice looking environments. Different colours are used for many of them and you will see many along the way. They all look nice as you explore them and although some of them tend to get similar, they still are interesting to see. In the game, you control your little round ball and using the s and a buttons to cause this ball to gain height and allow you to proceed to new locations. The platforming part is there, as you will navigate many platforms jumping and trying not to bounce too fast. However, what is different in this case is that as you explore the different worlds you will collect new balls with different abilities. Such as a steel ball that is heavy and can smash logs but can't jump well, or even the glass ball that breaks easily but can get past things such as lasers. There is strategy involved later in the game where you will have to think which balls you can use to navigate the areas. 

The music is superb in this game, very high quality with different sounds and melodies that are used it was very impressive I thought all around especially in the different levels. You will always be hearing a new track in game and really, you have to hear it for yourself to see what I mean. As well, the difficulty of the game is a good level I thought. You can change it between normal and hard but really, this is the sort of thinking game that will have you planning your moves rather than just proceeding quickly.

The only issue I thought is the controls are a bit loose at times and some of the different balls you use will really make you get frustrated at times. The frustrating element comes into play during some of the platform jumps that can progressively smaller and tougher as the game goes on.

Still though this is a very creative and different kind of game that is highly recommended that you should check out, it is called Within A Deep Forest, try you luck with this one.