The musical direction, provided for the most part by the ostentatiously talented Josh Kramer, adds ambience in abundance which is nuanced by the narrative running parallel to the fox mother’s own adventure. The game is all about the ride, and the enjoyment that you take from this two-hour adventure stems from how much you are willing to immerse yourself in this stylised cel-shaded world.
Essentially it’s a walking simulator in which you take the mantle of a fox mother who must scale the mountain to be reunited with her cub at the titular First Tree. So that’s the setup, enough foreplay, it’s dinner time! Fox in a boxįrom the moment The First Tree begins it’s immediately evident what kind of experience this frabjous frolic is.
On the first Friday of every month in 2019, peruse the store of your gaming machine of choice be it Steam, the PlayStation Store, Xbox Live or the Nintendo Eshop, search for a title that you know absolutely nothing about – a title that has eluded you entirely, buy the game for whatever the asking price and once you’re downloaded, installed and rocking out with the best of them, share your impressions on your social media platform of choice throughout the entirety of your time spent with the game. Reflecting on this is a poignant, albeit fleeting thought, which is kind of the point why the #DiscoverIndies movement is so important and certainly the reason I’ve become an advocate for this noblest of causes. This was certainly the case for myself and were it not for the efforts of the enigmatic Indie Gamer Chick and her tireless crusade for Indie games to receive the same exposure as AAA games, perhaps this truly spellbinding title would have been lost on me to the dredges of the Nintendo eshop. The First Tree is the kind of title that just maybe, passed you by. You’re the first, the last, my everything
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