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1623620 No.1623620[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Which games have the best forests?

>> No.1623623
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2YWT9yG52g

>> No.1623627
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I really liked the forests in Gothic 1 and Zanzarah.
A little crude but lovingly handcrafted and quite eery.

>> No.1623628
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>>1623620
With the classic music to boot.

>> No.1623648

Magical Pop'n, Super Mario World and Do-Re-Mi Fantasy and Harvest Moon for the Snes have very whimsical, lovely forests.

>> No.1623659

Tales of Phantasia has very pretty forests

>> No.1623667

Jade Cocoon

>> No.1623670

>>1623627
Not retro, but Gothic 2 has some of the most immersive forests I've ever seen.

For retro games, Tales of Phantasia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP0kamtR5UI

>> No.1623683 [SPOILER] 
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(Seiken Densetsu 3 spoiler for Kevin's plotline)

>> No.1623813
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Final Fantasy 9

>> No.1623864
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Rayman

>> No.1623865
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Not enough beautiful healing springs and haunted train stations for you kids?

>> No.1623868
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Rayman 2
Google image ain't showing anything that does justice to this game. Lot's of tall trees, leaf covered ceiling and gloomy pathways of vegetation.

>> No.1623876
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>> No.1623881

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r1iesThvYg

>> No.1623884
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1 Labyrinth forest is as bad as at least two underwater levels.

>> No.1623885
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Flashback
(excuse the shaders)

>> No.1623886
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As a kid we always thought that this place was supposed to be a forest.

We haven't seen Alien yet, that's probably why.

>> No.1623902
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Temperate coniferous master race.

>> No.1623903
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>>1623884
Was about to post about that game. Also, the city streets: the ground, houses, walls and murals in it have plants crawling over them. Which is kinda cool and forest related.

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>> No.1623930

>>1623902
I agree.

>> No.1623934

>>1623917
Aw, geez. It seems of late there's no way of posting anything about OoT without badmouthing it, but, as much as I like the game, the forest didn't really feel like a forest at all. The atmosphere was quite all right (love the fireflies and sound), but it was all either too open and flat, or too small and confined; it felt like a "set", in comparison with the nice desert and mountain environments.

>> No.1623960
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Mortal Kombat 2

>> No.1623963

>>1623960
Mortal KooK latorM from the looks of that. Never saw the whole thing in one image.

>> No.1623974

>>1623917

welp, Kokiri place and the Meadow were nice

Lost woods was a bunch of rectangular rooms though

>> No.1623975

>>1623868
Yeah, I've never been able to find good screenshots of this game for whatever reason.
Odd because it's a really nice looking game.

>> No.1623979

Forest of Illusion will always be my favorite Super Mario World area.

>> No.1623987
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The Misadventures of Flink had some really nice looking forests.

>> No.1623990
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>>1623987

>> No.1624003
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>>1623868
>>1623975
Got a Dreamcast early on (#YOLO), and the Rayman 2 demo really blew my mind; now I kinda see it was just very general, n64esque simple shapes, and the great look is mainly brought out by the detailed, good res rextures.

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>>1623987
>>1623990
Guys who did that also worked on Lomax, which is actually a very similar game.

>> No.1624019
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>>1624003
Yeah, the art style is very well realized, despite the early 3D.

>> No.1624020
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Forests also played a pretty important role there.

>> No.1624021

>>1623623
I saw OP's pic and my first thought was the same thing. It kinda looked like the forest battle screen.

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>>1624014
Also Lionheart for the Amiga.

>> No.1624039
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>>1623987
>>1623990
>>1624014

The lead artist, Henk Knieborg (actual name), freelanced for WayForward in most of their best looking games, including Shantae 2 and the MSFs (I now it's not chronologically retro, but come on, it's pretty retro)

>> No.1624049
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World of Illusion
Quackshot is pretty comfy as well.

>> No.1624061
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now...
>Wario Land 3 (pic)
>Breath of Fire 4
>Link's Awakening
these have weak visuals to convey through a screenshot, so I won't bother covering them with pics, but the music or sound effects do give them some atmosphere.

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>>1624049
Not a proper Illusion forest without a giant Mega Man 3-style snake.

>> No.1624070

Couldn't find an image, so have a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meHn2dyRJBs

>> No.1624071
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>>1623659

>> No.1624080
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Demon's Crest had a pretty good looking forest level.

>> No.1624089

>>1623627
>Zanzarah

That game was so much fun, reading this makes me want to play it again.

>> No.1624103
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Black Cat's Story, obviously

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>> No.1624110
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>> No.1624112
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>>1624103
Koplio's Story, mofos.

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>> No.1624118

>>1624114
Nice. Was that game actually worth playing? It always looked like a tech demo to me or something.

>> No.1624121

>>1623623
I always thought the name of this place was weird... the "Level Forest"

Like is it just the forest level or is it really flat

>> No.1624125

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r1iesThvYg

>> No.1624127

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2duL7CbX48&t=1m29s

>> No.1624149
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Ishar

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>> No.1624202
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>>1623620

>> No.1624392
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Romancing Saga 3 had a nice but short one at the start.

>> No.1624401

>>1623683
>Moonlight forest
>Implying you only went there if you had Kevin

There was another one, I can't remember but you fight Gildervine there.

>> No.1624405

>>1624401
You're thinking of the elf village area.

>> No.1624490

>>1623902
damn, i dont remember it looking that good

>> No.1624494

>>1624202
>Treasure of the Rudras

Nobody played that game you faggot.

>> No.1624501

>>1624494

People with good tastes in video games do, although I'm aware it's not typically a common thing.

>> No.1624509

>>1624501
It's kind of a shame that his game didn't get an english release until we were deep into the internet age, because the mantra system would've been boatloads of fun if you were going in blind.

>> No.1624550

The Forest in Ranger-X was pretty fucking cool.

having to fly above the canopy to recharge your sub-weapon energy making the environment relevant.

Castelvania III clearly had the best Forest music however-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPbKUdFvbeM

>> No.1624551

>>1624550
There was also fruit in the trees that restored your health.

>> No.1624553
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>>1623813
Kupo!
;)

>> No.1624593
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>>1624405
>>1624401
Nah its this forested area, I just thought the Wood Mana beast was called Gildervine, I goofed.

>> No.1624620
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>mfw no shingo forest

>> No.1624639
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jungle, forest, same thing

>> No.1624642
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Don't mind me, just one of the most iconic beat em up levels of all time.

>> No.1624660
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>> No.1624668
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>> No.1625021
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The Pawn

>> No.1625032
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The Adventures of Maddog Williams

> mfw I never managed to get past the thick forest to the West of the starting town...

>> No.1625038 [DELETED] 
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doesn't exactly qualify as /vr/ but you can't deny the sun shining through the implied tree tops of the minish forest aren't beautiful.

>> No.1625042
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Conquests of the Longbow

Lots of nice forest in this game...

>> No.1625067
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The Secret of Monkey Island

>> No.1625078
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Donkey Kong Country 1, 2 and 3 had some pretty neat forest levels though I'm not sure if this area is actually forest or in the sky looking at the background

>> No.1625097
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Agony
(nice shoot'em up for Amiga 500)

>> No.1625103
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>>1625097
Posting non-forest because ANIMATION!

>> No.1625116
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Lion King

This is Amiga AGA version. They fucking gimped it and removed some of the levels, the bastards! Could have just included one more floppy in the box...

>> No.1625125
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Lost Patrol

>> No.1625130
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i like the forest in Mr Gimmick!

>> No.1625138
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Barbarian (Palace Software, 1987)

This is Amstrad CPC version; it looked pretty badass at the time!

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Here's the Amiga version for comparison...

>> No.1625147
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Cannon Fodder

>> No.1625158
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Dragonflight (prequel to Amberstar/Ambermoon)

It's a trippy kind of forest...

>> No.1625167
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Revenge of Defender

>> No.1625168

>>1625130
>playing Gimmick with that filter on

Do your eyes and that game a favor, please

>> No.1625173
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Good luck finding your way out.

>> No.1625210
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Blue's Journey

Cutest forest?

>> No.1625223

pocky & rocky nigga

>> No.1625663

>>1625038
the forest theme in that game was god tier

>> No.1625957
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>>1623865
came to say this and chrono trigger

>> No.1626003
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Legendary Axe has a spooky forest in the first level

>> No.1626112

>>1625038
>doesn't exactly qualify as /vr/
Then don't post.

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>>1626112
Fuck you I post what I want

>> No.1626326

>>1625663
Seriously bruh? I'm replaying it now and like everything else in the game, it's mediocre. SMRPG forest theme is god tier. Minish Cap forest theme doesn't come close

>> No.1626349
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Not that well-realized as a forest-- basically just one giant tree-- but what a great final level.

>> No.1626378

>>1626349
Aww yee

>> No.1627464
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The forests in Suikoden have a great atmosphere.

>> No.1628217

>>1623987
What's the best version of this game?

>> No.1628504
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>>1623620
Shadow Forest in Chrono Cross was pretty nice.

>> No.1628638
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>>1623902
Necrum looked good aswell

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>> No.1629868
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The one in Simon the Sorcerer is absolutely beautiful.
and has at least one face hidden on each screen

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Arma forests are nicest forests.

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A jungle is a kind of forest

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psygnosis niggas

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Legend of Kyrandia

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Simon the Sorcerer 2

>> No.1630661

>>1628663

Fuck this

>> No.1630678

>>1623670
How worth it is ToP to play for someone who has only played Eternia and Abyss? It looks so nice, but there's a million different versions and I feel like I hear most of them are flawed...

>> No.1630776

>>1630678
You would appreciate it more if you played Symphonia, but it's still an excellent and complete game

>> No.1630805

>>1630776
I didn't get much out of Phantasia at all, having played it after Symphonia.

>> No.1630809

>>1630678
Don't touch the original versions with a ten-foot pole. It's nice what the series eventually became but Phantasia itself is a pretty hugely flawed game.

>> No.1631256

>>1630678
Well in the SNES one you can't jump on command, which is a real fucking problem when enemies are crowding around your head and the AI needs a running start to make you jump. I heard the PSX one fixes this, in addition to just being better overall.

>> No.1631265

Ones where you can find a hot ninja chick.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0m9Dmrh91g

>> No.1631268
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The one that always stuck with me the most was Splatterhouse

>> No.1631276

>>1624660
Yes. Because there are a few memorable forests, I'm gonna narrow it down to this:
http://youtu.be/3_XFuwO8UyU

>> No.1632193
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Lots of nice forests in this game.

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>>1630037
>mentioning Secret of Evermore
>not posting the Dark Forest instead

probably one of the most atmospheric game forests period

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>>1624080
good taste

>> No.1635080

>>1633703
That was forest was, with the desert, some of the worst level design in the game and one of the wost thing about the game.

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>>1632193

>Bean Bandit

>> No.1635125

Skull Woods from A Link to the Past.

>> No.1635426

>>1635080
>"I can't be bothered to get out paper and pencil and draw a map in 10 minutes because I'm a lazy fuckwad"

>> No.1635465

>>1624668
what game ?

>> No.1635531

What about an ICE forest, /vr/?

>> No.1635535
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>>1635531
Seen here, of course.