It's all about the Name

I didn’t play TSW. Why? The name. That’s it. The impression I got from the name alone put me off so much that I didn’t even bother investigating anything at all about the actual game. I imagined it as a spin-off from “The Secret Garden” – a little kiddie game about faeries, small cuddly animals, and talking flowers.

I held fast to that impression for years – until a couple months ago a friend mentioned that she thought I’d like SWL. Thought y’all might find my misapprehension amusing. She sure did. ><

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Ak’abs just want hugs!

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Well, the Shadowy Forest kind of feels like a twisted fairy tale landscape.
Not for kids, though. We’re talking old school terrifying fairy tales.

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If flowers would start talking I would piss my pants in horror…I already learned that small children are scary as hell…

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You could have probably watched any video or seen any picture of the game to get a vastly different first impression. Never judge a book by its cover I suppose!

Everything is true though… so I suppose you weren’t necessarily wrong…