A normal day in the serene village of Everdale. School's just been let out. The village is preparing for a birthday party. Mr. Ronedale has lost his chickens. Mrs. Apricot is baking a pie. And little Danais is consigned by his sister Farrah to buy a b'day present. Enter Skarsgaard, a local thief consigned by his boss to raid this serene village.
And then everything gets thrown into disarray. Danais is missing. Farrah has to go out in search of him and they end up in a town very far away from home! How are they going to get back? To make things more complicated, in comes a band of pirates arrives in the port town. And the Mayor is suffering a migraine from demands from the townspeople: a clown needs cheering up, a young boy needs help wooing a girl, a shaman needs his monkeys returned, a thief needs to be caught, a merchant needs to be protected, and so much more!
How are Danais and Farrah going to find their way home in the midst of all this insanity?
And then everything gets thrown into disarray. Danais is missing. Farrah has to go out in search of him and they end up in a town very far away from home! How are they going to get back? To make things more complicated, in comes a band of pirates arrives in the port town. And the Mayor is suffering a migraine from demands from the townspeople: a clown needs cheering up, a young boy needs help wooing a girl, a shaman needs his monkeys returned, a thief needs to be caught, a merchant needs to be protected, and so much more!
How are Danais and Farrah going to find their way home in the midst of all this insanity?
A Home Far Away isn't your typical epic fantasy rpgmaker game: it's a lighthearted story driven adventure about two siblings, a kid and a young girl, trying to go home. They live fantastic adventures during their journey, and the game offers to the player puzzles, minigames, exploration, little subquests and some battles too. There is a lot of variety and the game is really full of many little details.
Random Fact: Captain Grizzlybeard, the leader of the pirates who is in a mid-life crisis, will come back in another game by Strangeluv, Leo & Leah: a love story, released one year after this game. So technically both games take place in the same world.
Final Verdict: this was an entertaining journey of two little heroes, and a fun entertaining adventure with some diversion an minigames, even if for me the first half was definitely better than the second. In any case it was still a charming little game.
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