You may, for example, need to block out noises around the cabin to help Wilma concentrate, but the ‘solution’ is to find these distractions (no hard task) and simply click on them so that Wilma can focus her mind to block them out. The entire experience is less than an hour long, though, moving so fast that I was never bored or distracted.įundamentally, The Lion’s Song is a point-and-click game, but there are no puzzles to speak of. You move from scene to scene quite quickly, and in most cases there is little more to do than click a couple of hotspots or explore conversation choices. The game opts instead for a more cinematic format, somewhere between The Walking Dead and Kentucky Route Zero. Gorgeous though the graphics are, the presentation limits the gameplay somewhat, as characters do not usually move around the screen and a lot of time is spent in conversation. Characters tend to take up much of the screen, so it is immersive to notice breathing and blinking, or the way in which Wilma turns her head as she looks out the window or taps anxiously on the desk.
The rain and splashing water are beautifully done indeed, the animation all around is quite detailed for pixel art. In one dream sequence, Wilma stands at the bottom of a well looking up, paralysed, as torrential rain falls down and the water looks set to drown her. It’s the sort of low-res 2D art familiar to adventure gamers, but stylised with a striking sepia-toned palette that cinematically depicts each scene. The graphics are very much suited to the setting. And if that doesn’t make her anxious enough, he tells her it is to premiere as the grand finale in an improbable programme of Schoenberg, Mahler and Berg. Her tutor, Arthur, is convinced that her music is radically unlike anything before, so he sends her off to a remote cabin in the Alps so that she can finish composing her new work, “The Lion’s Song”. In this first episode, Silence, you play Wilma, a promising young music student in early 1900s Austria.
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