The first scene of Season: A Letter to the Future is a farewell. You take one last walk through your house and choose five items – one for each of your five senses – that bring back particularly poignant memories. Then, under your mother’s watchful eye, you carefully drop them all into a large jar. When you finish the ceremony, you will be given a small luminous pendant that will protect you from harm.
Your mother insists, “You must promise me never to take the pendant off,” You say your last goodbye and, as the prophecy foretold, never go back to your mother’s arms or your homeland. It’s a great, if tragic, way to kick off the season and dive headfirst into the action. You investigate the ephemeral nature of memory in a society in which predictions, rituals and prayers play a major role.
Despite the beautiful scenery, I couldn’t shake the feeling of being subjected to a relentless downer as the story unfolded. However, it turns out that Season is so much more than just an attractive travelogue. You take on the role of Estelle, a young woman who sets out to record the last days of the ‘season’ of the same name. One historical era comes to an end while another begins in this universe, where ‘season’ is best expressed in terms of years.
After setting off on her bicycle, unsure of her destination or what to expect, she finds herself in Tieng Valley, a vast canyon that would soon be washed away by a biblical flood. On the valley’s last day, she sets out to explore it and document as much of this particular location as she can so it can be shared with future generations. You’ll have a great time on your bike, and the simple controls make pedaling a breeze.
There is no set schedule, so you can just go with the flow as you cycle through the valley in search of what piques your interest. Season is simply breathtakingly beautiful, which is why you want to take lots of breaks to take it all in. My eyes got a good workout on my first carefree ride down the valley.
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Everything from a huge stone temple in the east to glowing lights from the depths of a forest in the west, a giant stone god’s head on an approaching slope to a small farm with cows and goats perched on a cliff, and much more. Those remote landmarks are practically begging to be explored. To keep the history of each location safe, it is necessary to turn off the heavy machinery.
Let’s start with your Polaroid camera, which can take an infinite number of photos. A tape recorder is at your disposal so you can capture any sound that particularly appeals to you, be it the tweeting of a bird, the murmur of water in a nearby river or the tinkling of chimes. Picking up trinkets like flowers, stamps, photographs, letters, and the like can spice up your research.
“From sweeping vistas with details at dizzying depths to close-ups of individual creatures, all images are simply captivating. You really want to stop what you’re doing and take pictures of every little thing…” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ https://t.co/3wo1Zztwj9
— SEASON: A letter to the future (@SeasonTheGame) January 26, 2023
Make a scrapbook to hold all your travel memories and dedicate two pages to each location you go to. You need a set number of items to ‘finish’ an area, but after that you are free to customize each page as you see fit. Estelle’s illustrations and comments serve as the finishing touch and create an aesthetically pleasing representation of your current location. Scrapping Season was really one of my favorite aspects of the game.
It’s great fun and a good way to remember your adventure as a whole by carefully arranging all the photos you’ve taken and the items you’ve found. This book is a wonderful memento of all the amazing locations you’ve seen. After you’ve seen a few sites, talked to the valley’s remaining inhabitants, and filled your scrapbook with gems you’ve discovered, the bigger picture becomes clear.
Who or what is responsible for closing the season, if anything? Season combines the genres of mystery and peaceful bike simulation in this way. You discover within the first half hour that the previous season was one of massive conflict that shook the world, so the anecdotes you collect are fraught with tragedy. The story behind the end of the season gradually unfolds as you meet new people and reflect on your past experiences.
The letters, notes, diaries and charms you discover reflect the desperation of people in the valley who want to move on, but also show that they are not sure how to do so. There is a certain sadness in the fact that people can only remember these memories instead of making meaningful efforts to deal with them, despite their desire to be free of the past and strive for a brighter future.
After all, your main concern is not about the origin of the conflict or what happened during the conflict, but about the consequences it has now. You help preserve this valley by capturing the landscape and the collective memory of the people. What I didn’t expect from a visually appealing bike game was a post-war story. The progression of the story is quite captivating, like watching a picture evolve into the full picture of a mysterious and beautiful environment.
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Very poetic language is used throughout and the pace is deliberately slow. In this game, you cannot pull an Evel Knievel-style wheelie or go down a ramp yourself. I doubt anyone expected Season to pull a prank on Grand Theft Auto, but there’s still some mystery surrounding this episode. I try to be vague so as not to give too much away. Religion, superstitions and night visions all get a lot of airtime.
Review: SEASON: A letter to the future https://t.co/SC4DZjb776 pic.twitter.com/0OABGlT3JX
— Destructoid (@destructoid) January 26, 2023
Documents warning of a dream disease sit next to flowers that can record the sounds of people’s lives. I find it irresistible because of the way its bizarre beauty complements my own innate weirdness. I will never forget the day I met a monk who was not dressed in the usual dress of his order, but in polka dot socks and a bright pink trench coat, or the time I took a picture of a broken vending machine that had been transformed into a shrine to a deceased loved one.
In the same way that even the holiest shrines are maintained with the utmost reverence and splendor, so too are these massive metal cranes covered with brown rust and ivy. One of the most striking images I’ll never forget is stumbling into an abandoned parking lot filled with dead troops, all neatly arranged in their assigned parking spaces and seemingly doomed to stay there forever. It’s stunning, surreal and utterly bleak all at the same time.
