About This Game Over The Hills And Far Away is a heartwarming and emotional visual novel, the first title released by WarGirl Games.The War of 1812. Northwest Frontier. William Aubrey, a rogue redcoat of the once-glorious 41st Regiment of Foot, is on the run. Wounded and tired, he seeks shelter during a thunderstorm inside an abandoned barn. But when he gets there, he finds he’s not alone. A young Shawnee girl, named Mai, is hiding from the rain too. Bleeding out and not wanting to brave the fierce winds outside, Aubrey decides to put up with her until the rains let up. But will their accord outlast the storm; when both return to the bloodshed and the outside world?Full length visual novel Beautiful artwork and CGs to unlock Original sweeping orchestral soundtrack Experience the colonial-era world of the Northwest Territory 7aa9394dea Title: Over The Hills And Far AwayGenre: Casual, IndieDeveloper:WarGirl GamesPublisher:WarGirl GamesRelease Date: 16 Sep, 2015 Over The Hills And Far Away Full Crack [pack] best version of over the hills and far away. over the hills and far away time signature. over the hills and far away acoustic lesson. over the hills and far away songfacts. over the hills and far away 2017 lyrics. over the hills and far away vndb. over the hills and far away five little ducks. over the hills and far away 1973. over the hills and far away 17th century. over the hills and far away gary moore download. over the hills and far away live tab. over the hills and far away with lyrics. over the hills and far away kelli jean epub. over the hills and far away free download. john tams over the hills and far away download. over the hills and far away john tams mp3. over the hills and far away tutorial. over the hills and far away led zeppelin live. over the hills and far away elizabeth hammill. over the hills and far away poem. over the hills and far away mother duck said quack quack quack. over the hills and far away guitar pro. over the hills and far away song download. over the hills and far away traditional lyrics. over the hills and far away ukulele tutorial. over the hills and far away original song. over the hills and far away the music of sharpe. over the hills and far away acoustic. over the hills and far away nightwish chords. over the hills and far away free mp3 download. over the hills and far away zeppelin lyrics. over the hills and far away midi. over the hills and far away gary moore chords. over the hills and far away ac4. over the hills and far away bpm. over the hills and far away traditional youtube. over the hills and far away nightwish meaning + Interesting background (War of 1812)+ Short but decent storyline+ Nice music+ Not-so-waifuish-weeblike artwork, but still somewhat beautiful- Technically just one route without any choices to make- Didn't expect an ending theme song with vocal. Don't really like that kind. Personnally. (ofc the song itself is quite good)I don't often see VNs with historical setting. And it's brilliant. Plus finishing it don't take up much time. Recommended.. This is a lovely kinetic visual novel about a rogue redcoat making an unlikely friend in a young, Shawnee girl in the Michigan area during the War of 1812. It's a heartfelt slice of American historical fiction, and shows the cruelty of war for all involved, but particularly for Native Americans.. When you're traveling through a war zone on foot during a storm, you tend to not be very picky when an opportunity to find shelter presents itself. This is how one wounded former soldier, having abandoned his comrades during one of North America's many formative wars in the early 1800s, winds up in a shed together with a young Native American girl waiting out the storm. The shared experience is sure to tear down some of the cultural barriers between them, but will others be too sturdy to be toppled just like that?Over The Hills And Far Away is a short kinetic novel (a visual novel without choice-based story branches), developed and self-published on Steam by WarGirl Games in collaboration with Collateral Damage Studios and Seycara Music and Arts. It uses western-influenced visuals as opposed to the more common anime style, and tells its story in about three hours.The VN is built on the Ren'Py engine and has full SteamPlay support on Windows, Mac and Linux, which is something that I personally greatly appreciate. You can save and load at any time (somewhat curiously, the developer chose to provide no less than 250 save slots). It runs in fullscreen or windowed mode, and while it does not quite achieve full 1080p graphics, it runs at a very comfortable widescreen resolution slightly above 720p. The characters are not voiced, and at the time of this review, the VN is only available in English.The visual style, while having some anime influences, is pretty unique and distinct from most other VNs on Steam. It makes expert use of color and lighting to set the tone, the backgrounds are as pretty as they are detailed and always fun to look at. The character sprites and CGs tend to be consistent between one another, and the characters have strong visual designs. While the coloring and most of the drawing technique is impeccable, I have to nitpick about the faces. The artist is good enough at drawing faces for it not to be too jarring, but they often end up looking kind of wooden or distorted and not really fitting the rest of the body. In one instance this actually made me laugh when a character was clearly supposed to be looking angry, but ended up looking more like he was struggling with constipation. That is the one unfortunate weak spot in the otherwise delightful painterly artwork.Since I don't have the knowledge to assess whether the soundtrack has any particular relevance to the time period of the story, I can only say that it seemed well-produced and always fit the mood. It's one of those immersive soundtracks that you tend not to notice anymore after a while, which can be a good thing, even though it makes it hard to identify any stand-out tracks (besides the vocal track during the credits that I enjoyed very much). That said, I really have to highlight the sound effect engineering in this VN, which feels like it has a unique little bit of audio for almost everything that happens. It's clear that a lot of attention to detail went into the sound design, and the result is impressive. In this particular regard it may actually the best VN I've read so far. The only sound problem that I noticed is that the background music does not loop very well and you frequently hear it fade out before starting over from the beginning. This is a common problem that always challenges my immersion unnecessarily and I wish more developers would take it into account. That said, if this is the worst audio problem that I can find, then that says more about what they did right than what they did wrong.I always perk up a little when I see someone announcing a VN with an interesting original setting, and in this regard Over The Hills And Far Away certainly brings something valuable to the table. I don't know all that much about American history, so a lot of the context of the war and the motivations of the various factions were undoubtedly lost on me, but it's worth noting that I never felt like I was being admonished for that. The story carries all the context that it needs to function, and I would imagine that many aspects of this story would transfer with little issue to many other wars in human history, so this title is not only for the history buffs to appreciate. If you are hoping to learn more about Shawnee culture from this VN, you are likely to be disappointed, as what little information it gives about them stays on a very superficial level. This is not an educational story (in the scholarly sense) like, for example, Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) tries to be.As original as the setting is, the rest of the broader plot framework unfortunately cannot keep pace. The tragic story of the battle-hardened warrior meeting the innocent little girl is a safe genre staple, which regrettably also makes it feel a little stale. You know there will be a time period of the two warming up to each other, you know there will be lots of moments of joy, and you know it's going to tug at your heartstrings a bit. That's all just fine, and taken by itself every one of those moments works well, but you tend to see the heartstring-tugging coming from a mile away if you've read a few stories of this kind before, so depending on your own degree of genre-savvy cynicism, there's a tangible risk that this story might leave you feeling like you just went through the motions again.All that is not to say that the writing isn't good, it's merely not particularly innovative. I'm under the impression that Over The Hills And Far Away is the first "big" serious project of its writer, and sticking closely to a proven story archetype was probably not a bad idea at all. The writing shows very few rookie mistakes (some misplaced humour, some overreliance on clich\u00e9s) in an otherwise rock-solid and immersive experience, and I have high hopes for the raw talent of the writer, who I'm sure will spread his creative elbows out a little more for his next work.I've often said that a great execution can do a lot to make up for some things that the framework may be lacking, and this is definitely true for Over The Hills And Far Away. I've already talked about the attention to detail in the sound design, but the same excellence extends to almost all other detail areas of the VN. When the protagonists are walking through a forest, you can see the thicket draw leafy shadows on the character sprites that lightly sway in the wind, the animated fog effects are a joy to look at, and the occassional sprite animation when a character falls down or climbs a tree just gives the whole thing an aura of authenticity that you only get when the developers pay ample attention to the little things. Over The Hills And Far Away is practically polished to a mirror sheen.Even if it breaks less new literary ground than the setting made me hope initially, I have no qualms giving Over The Hills And Far Away a positive recommendation. There's almost nothing to it that needs criticism, and at the end of the day it is an enjoyable story with a very competent presentation. For people who dislike anime-style art, this is an obvious recommendation. Everyone else will have to weigh it against other VNs that they have not read yet and ask themselves whether the setting and the attention to detail are strong enough selling points.. I really enjoy the story to the point I didn't want to take screen shots of the last CGs to ruin it for other people (even with spoiler tag). Do feel for 13$ it is a bit on the short side of a story no real character development. For a VN if your looking for choices there is none it's a linear story but at the end I had mix feelings. It's a type of title would want to give a in between. I enjoy the music and writing I just don't feel there was enough of it. Would reccomend it to anyone if on a sale.Since I wrote this review they did change the price of the game to $8.99 so would definatly reccomend to anyone who likes VN. A good story\/ game. It took me 4hrs, but i'm AFK a lot.There are no choices to make, just click Auto, sit back & enjoy the story.The art was nice, although there weren't very many different scenes.The BGM was also good, fitting at times.The Store page summarizes the plot, so read that.A nice way to spend a few hrs on Sunday afternoon. 7\/10. 'Over The Hills And Far Away' is a so called visual novel. It's the first I played and it was an amazing experience. Although there is no voice acting, only graphics, sound effects and music, and you have to read the story yourself, I felt extremely hooked to this game. The atmosphere totally grabbed me all through the story. This game is a piece of art and you won't forget Mai, the little injun girl, easily, once you completed the story. If you're English is good enough, please give this game a try. You won't regret it, promise!Pros:- brilliant soundtrack- beautiful art- powerful atmosphere- very touching, funny and emotional storyCons:- makes a grown man cry. Wow, just wow!! What a beautiful, descriptive story. Really pulls you in and makes you care for the characters. This isn't a game that you play, but a wonderful story that you read. No narrative, but amazing music and sound effects that add to the gorgeous atmosphere. No choices to be made, you can't change the outcome, but you wouldn't want to. This is one emotional story that I won't forget for a long time. Well done WarGirl Games, and thanks for an emotional story that touches the heart. I so look forward to your next story, and I hope there will be many more to come!!. Very well executed VN about a time not talked about much. Hopefully we will see more of these from this developer.I see many reviewers saying this is set during the American War for Independence - that's not correct. The story is set during the War of 1812, sometimes called the Second War of Independence. Aubrey says "this is the 1800s" as part of his dialog. Also, he refers to Chief Tecumseh being killed. Tecumseh was killed at the Battle of the Thames in October 1813.Highly recommended VN.. Over the Hills and Far Away isn't a war story, where you see a brave soldier who win a glorious battle and comes back home to his wife and kids. It's a story about a soldier who choose to live instead of dying on the battlefield, and a child who got sold into slavery and who dreams of coming back home to her village.This is one of my favourite stories, and I'm actually a bit sad that I bought it during a -75% sale because it feels like I paid too little for something great. Everything about it is absolutely wonderful, the way the game is written, the lovely watercolour style and the characters.. I wanted to love this game, I really did. But the glaring flaws with the story, alongside with the inconsistencies in plot and development only leave me wishing that the person who wrote this spent more time learning proper plot structure, than letting the musical work and art of others go to waste. The half baked and poorly delivered plot build up, to the main characters friend psychotic break and unrealistic development only destroyed whatever feeling I was meant to feel, when the forced death scene came around (I'll go into that plot thread later into the review)Not even that was my major problem, but it was the fact that from a narrative standpoint, our character goes from someone we'd best believe and understand as an underdog, a man that overcomes all odds and turns a new leaf taking a deep plunge into a character arc that completes the story and leaves you with a bittersweet taste in your mouth. Instead I get to see a coward, lead a 12 yearold girl to her death all so he can kill someone who was completely justified in wanting to end his life. (even this is debatable since the story doesn't add up and only exists to justify his obsession. This is itself is a gaping plothole.)Am I really supposed to think, that this thief and murderer (Main character) Is supposed to be seen as a hero when he lets this young girl sacrifice herself over his own \u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665up?This alone also gets worsened, when you realise that her tribe is long dead and gone. Considering the betrayal that sent many a man to his death on the battle that caused the redcoats to desert. ON TOP of the fact that she herself explicitly stated that many were shot and wounded during her capture, making it unlikely and impossible for her tribe to have survived the raids and coercion into the war. Even the main villain suffers from consistency issues, since he was supposed to be obsessed and abusive. The problem with this was, he was in part going above and beyond with his orders, and sending his men off into a death march into the woods with dwindling food and water reserves. Considering the redcoats desertion, and the broken morale. Even a bluecoat would've deserted. So it completely rocks off the hold and progress, that this man would've made to find and kill his own treatorous friend. Since his scouts and infantry would've left him out in the cold with a gunshot in his chest.I can't even begin to get started with the confusing dream sequences that seemed to hint that the main character was developing feelings for this 12 yearold girl, only for the writer to realise this was looking really bad, then tip toe and dance away from the dream developments. Alongside the hinted at banter between the two that was only an inch closer to turning romantic, from platonic. I'm sure that if he thought about this plot a lot more, we would've had this awesome two worlds collide, and interactions that would've left an impact. With a wounded soldier having to repent for past sins, while leaving impactful words on a girl seeing the world torn apart from the evils of man, and the destruction of her manipulated tribe.But I received none of that, only a half cocked forced plot development. (Her death) and the forced revenge story from the main character (If you start at the beginning and pay attention, he's retelling a story of his partner leaving with half the loot, as he turns away from a life of crime and boards a ship that gets raided by the redcoats. This is the main development that forces him into the army.)Her death, left me feeling sour for all the wrong reasons. I should've left crying, not asking why at every corner for how bad the developments were to that point, and how forced it was. I can't recommend this visual novel.
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