Yesterday I've read
hereticrick's post about TEF and comments on it. And then I began thinking of what forest means to me.
I've learned about the game from the post on one russian fantasy site. I had nothing to do that day and decided to download it. Though I don't play online games...
I pretend to be a photographer and the quality of the image is very important to me. So you can guess that I didn't like the graphics much. However the deer were impressive... unreal.
But... the game made no sense. I was running arond the forest, feeling absolutely lost and a bit bored. Other deers were saying "hello" and I just answered them and continued running. Then I tried to play with somebody... for about a minute. Bored again.
So I was about to quit.
Suddenly I met Nerri. She was... beautiful and very friendly. So my Etincelle followed her. Then we met Hewies. And the game became interesting.
At first I was just having fun, dancing and laughing. I didn't quite understand other emotions. But then they became full of sense.
Now Etincelle has her own language and character...
The graphics doesn't matter now...
The best thing about the game is the impossibility to speak. In fact body language carries more than 80% of information in communication between people. However we often pay to much attention to words. And we don't believe that it is possible to make friends without saying a word. But it IS. And it's startling.
