2023-06-13 15:00:03
Game News We have surely found the most beautiful French video game of 2023
The most beautiful French game of 2023 is undoubtedly Dordogne, available today on PC, consoles, and in the Xbox Game Pass.
An enchanted break in the tranquility of Périgord, Dordogne is a rural invitation from the French studio Un Je ne Sais Quoi, a “Swiss Army knife” company with 15 years of animation experience that prefers brushwork to digital strokes to integrate them with modern tools. of 3D. A hybrid technique that has aroused particular attention for the game since its first presentations to the public. The watercolor plates are of unparalleled beauty and follow one another like the pages of an illustrated children’s tale, enhanced by meticulous work on the lights that subtly cross the rooms of a house or are reflected on the water. calm of a river. Each decor is filled with wonder and is draped in a very soft melancholic atmosphere, accompanied by melodies with very warm textures composed by the group Supernaïve. Dordogne is a thrilling game that invites you to rediscover the pleasures of childhood through a few dusty memories.
Bucolic stroll in the Dordogne
The game follows Mimi, a young woman who temporarily leaves the capital to say goodbye to her late grandmother’s home in the Dordogne. The frame is planted through two temporalities: the heroine’s present and her past as a little girl, on a summer stay with her grandmother, whose death drapes the rooms in a terrible loneliness and paints the walls in dull hues. We might have guessed it without him telling us, Dordogne is inspired by the life experience of its artist, Cédric Babouche; an anecdote shared earlier in the columns of the Ouest France media: “I spent my first thirteen years of vacation in my great-grandmother’s house in Périgord, more on the Lot side, on the Saint-Germain-du-Bel-Air or Rocamadour side. And we often went to the Dordogne side with my grandparents during the summer holidays. It’s a region that I personally like, of which I had perhaps idealized memories, but in any case, I still have incredible memories.”. Embarked by her parents and once morest her will in the daily life of her grandmother Nora, thousands of kilometers from her home, little Mimi discovers the joys of gardening, inhales the scents of thyme and sage, does her shopping at the market in Sarlat and bathe in the waters of the region. The game gratifies us with very nice dubbings that have rocked us during our visit to this pleasant campaign.
You will never do much in Dordogneeach little activity is appreciated as a hot summer vacation spent strolling ; manipulations with the mouse are sometimes uncomfortable and suggest that we would prefer to perform them on a tablet, with a stylus. But they are mainly used by the studio not to get engulfed in an incessant flow of cutscenes and to invite the player to interact a little bit with his universe, whatever his age. In addition to memories, Mimi collects words that appear in space and add to the sounds and photographs you capture with her Polaroid. These elements can be composed in a notebook that you feed at the end of each chapter; a kind of minimalist and very summary scrapbooking which allows us to weave the red thread of the story, whose mysteries accumulate.
eternal mysteries
Dordogne contains a real plot, unsuspected at its beginnings, which turns out to be particularly gripping. It addresses the themes of carelessness, family ties and wraps itself in a certain mystery. But you will have to be careful to collect all the letters scattered around the house to understand the ins and outs, otherwise you will forever have big unanswered questions. Unable to go back or continue exploring locations once the last event has been triggered. In this sense, the game fails to properly guide you in fully understanding its precious secrets. Note that four to five hours will be needed to complete this little bucolic walk that we would like to see go on forever.
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