Review - The First Tree
Separated from it’s family, a fox travels the world to find the ones it has lost. The First Tree is a mix of a walking simulator and a 3D platforming game from the developer David Wehle. It focuses very heavily on a narrative of loss and regret in the face of it. The gameplay itself was nothing special but, at once, only faced a few setbacks. While The First Tree was certainly a narratively ambitious title, I felt that it was a mixed bag of good and bad elements. The gameplay is exactly what one would expect from a walking simulator with a few extra bells and whistles. The player controls a fox that can be moved around and jump. As one explores the landscape they will end up finding interactable objects that further the story. In the rather open environments of The First Tree it might seem that the player could easily get lost searching for these objects, however the developer alleviates this problem by having most interactable objects marked by a pillar of light that can be