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The Frostrune: A Captivating Adventure Game Add comment

Monday, November 03, 2025@November 03, 2025

At 2.15 pm today, 03 November 2025, I completed a game called The Frostrune. The game was developed by Grimnir Media and published by Snow Cannon Games, first released in 2017. It opens quietly with a shipwreck and the slow reveal of an abandoned Norse settlement surrounded by dark forest and coastline. The visuals are hand-painted and the sound design feels restrained, almost careful. The music has a Norse weight to it, and the pacing is deliberate. The story moves in small pieces, each scene linking to another through space rather than dialogue.

If you stumble upon this puzzle while playing, you will see the little girl standing with the Viking spirits. That is us, the player. We are written into the prophecy, destined to complete it. The introduction draws you in because it does not rush. You begin by walking the shore, searching through forgotten cabins and rune stones, learning through fragments what kind of place you have entered. The world feels old and silent, but not dead. The game leans on its northern folklore deeply, letting symbols, tools, and ruins tell parts of the story that the characters do not. You are left to interpret meaning the way an archaeologist might. That quietness becomes its rhythm.

How The Game Is Played

The Frostrune is a point-and-click adventure built around Norse myth and ancient ritual. You explore the island through first-person perspective, gathering objects, decoding runes, unlocking mechanisms, and piecing together fragments of its story. There are no battles or weapons, only observation and connection. Each puzzle requires careful memory and logic. You match symbols, align instruments, open chests, and understand how one item relates to another in a network of clues.

I finished the game in just a few hours because the number of quests is fewer than in other games I have played. The structure is simple and the focus stays on observation. It rewards players who remember small details. If you forget what you have seen, you will probably retrace your steps more than once. It is a game that would work perfectly on a tablet. The control style fits a relaxed posture where the mind, not the reflex, does the work.

The Puzzle That Stayed With Me

One of my favourite parts is the section where you must arrange musical notes, and when done correctly, the Vikings sing the sequence in harmony. It comes with this piece of verse that stays in memory:

“Four warriors guard the great Wolf’s chest
Bound by duty beyond death’s call
Listen to their songs of great deeds done
And bear witness to their final notes

For every duty at last must end
Every song at last is sung
In the eternal peace of Hel’s embrace:

Pink sings the swordsman, the highest note
Shorter axe sings deepest note in orange
His brother with spear joins his blue note
And the long axe sings in green hues.”

It is one of those moments where the game’s folklore and music merge into something complete. When the harmony resolves, you feel the story closing in on itself.

Reflections and Ending

What I love most about The Frostrune is how it treats the folklore with respect. The runes, the witch, the Viking remnants, all exist as part of the landscape. Nothing feels placed just to impress. It is a quiet balance between human story and mythic presence. The witch figure especially ties the past and present together, guiding you through her memory.

Reaching the end was neither satisfying nor disappointing. It felt like relief. The circle closed and the island was at rest. I was ready to leave, not because I was bored, but because the story had reached its silence. I will look for similar games later, something that carries the same northern stillness, where myth breathes through the trees and every sound feels deliberate.

If anyone has recommendations for horror or mystery games rooted in northern Scandinavian folk tradition with traditional elements like runes, creatures, and forest rituals, I would like to hear them.

Labels: Game, motivation, Songs and Lyrics, Windows and Softwares

Through the Woods Add comment

Sunday, November 02, 2025@November 02, 2025

At 12.28 a.m. on 2 November 2025 I finished Through the Woods, a third person Norwegian horror adventure developed by the indie studio Antagonist and published by 1C Publishing EU. The game was released in 2016 and maintains an intentionally restrained pace and atmosphere. Its environments draw from the Norwegian coastline and dense forest interiors, the lighting is deliberately minimal, and the story unfolds in short, deliberate beats. It is played as a walk through memory and clue, not as an exercise in combat or spectacle, and the design insists you pay attention to what is left unsaid as much as to what is shown.

This post includes spoilers. If you have not played the game and intend to, stop here.

Through the Woods places you in the role of Karen, a mother searching for her missing son, Espen. The viewpoint is third person, the camera close enough to feel like an observer and distant enough to keep some detail offscreen. Progression is driven by exploration, by reading notes and piecing together small narrative fragments, and by moving through spaces that shift between the literal and the folkloric. You do not receive weapons or direct means to fight. The tension is generated by movement, by timing, and by the limitations the game imposes on the player. Survival is procedural rather than mechanical: you avoid, you hide, you use light sparingly, and you decide when to press forward.

The creatures are drawn from a Norse-tinged folk vocabulary and they behave as extensions of the environment rather than isolated enemies. Among others, there are trolls, large and deliberate, that feel like obstacles the world itself has formed over time; there is the Huldra, a figure bound to darkness and light, whose reactions turn illumination into a risk; and there are the wolves Sköll and Hati, whose deception defines one of the more unsettling turns in the game. I spent time caught at the first troll area, then in the Huldra sequence where every step depended on how light was handled, and later at the wolves’ crossing where their betrayal reshaped the rhythm of play. None of them follow predictable patterns. They act through misdirection, waiting for distraction or misplaced certainty.

I completed the game in a few hours overall, spread across sessions. Work and other concerns meant I returned to it in fragments rather than as an uninterrupted run, and the game worked well in those gaps. The credits feature a quiet acoustic track that clears the air after the final scenes; I do not know the title yet but I want to find it because it felt like a necessary ledger for what came before. On the narrative side, the late revelation about Erik and his motives made the arc feel coherent rather than arbitrary. By the time Karen’s situation is made explicit, the pieces fit together with a logic that had already been hinted at, and a note about Erik’s intention supplies the connective tissue that the rest of the story had been arranging. I attempted the revived Espen sequence and spent time trying to change the outcome, but the game does not offer that repair.

Practical note: I will not invent how the scenes affected me emotionally beyond what I have said. I attempted to revive Espen and I predicted the ending from the clue about Erik. Those are actions and observations. I finished the game while needing distraction from other tasks and responsibilities. The soundtrack in the credits is one concrete detail I plan to track down. The character is explicitly revealed at the end and her choices become clear in the final scenes.

Finally, a personal aside in plain terms. My cat Bulou died today. She had a long standing tumour in her left eye. I buried her earlier. I hope she is at peace and no longer in pain.

Labels: Game, motivation, spooky, Windows and Softwares

My Alternate Ending of Unforgiving: A Northern Hymn Add comment

Sunday, October 26, 2025@October 26, 2025

At 2.22 a.m. today, 26 October 2025, I finished playing an old horror game called Unforgiving: A Northern Hymn. Developed by Angry Demon Studio in Sweden and released in 2017, it’s a slow, strange, and heavy game about fear and folklore. The language switches between Swedish and English, which somehow makes everything more real. It feels foreign but believable, like being lost somewhere you were warned not to enter.

The game is pure survival. You don’t get weapons or help. You just move, hide, and hope nothing finds you. I think it’s one of the hardest games I’ve ever played, probably because I move fast when I play. I don’t like wasting time. I just want to reach the end and see if I can finish without quitting halfway. Unforgiving punished that habit. Especially in Chapter 8 with Bäckahästen’s children. You can’t run from them. You have to move slowly and plan your next step. My heartbeat felt like part of the soundtrack.

What I liked most was how the culture sits quietly in the background. The folklore, the faint hum of folk songs, even the carved symbols on random objects. Everything feels rooted in something older than the game itself. It doesn’t scream for attention. It just exists.

I startled myself a few times. While playing in some scenes, I knew I shouldn’t look back, but I still did. Sometimes it killed me. Sometimes it didn’t. Either way, it worked.

The ending wasn’t satisfying, so I’m rewriting it myself. Lukas stays. I don’t fight back. Why would I? The game taught me enough. There’s no logic in escaping only to fall back into the same pit. The developer should’ve known better and made two endings, one for those who learn and one for those who don’t.

And if I can’t have that choice, then in the next game life I’d rather sacrifice myself and let Lukas live. He deserves it more.

Unforgiving is the kind of game that lingers. It doesn’t scare you with noise. It just stays quiet and waits until you realise you’re still inside it. Sometimes survival isn’t about running. It’s about knowing when to stop.

Lukas deserves to live. He was kind, patient, and he never left.

This should probably sing for my truth:

Labels: Game, motivation, spooky, Windows and Softwares

Songs come and go Add comment

Saturday, July 07, 2012@July 07, 2012

Before I go to sleep~

So I rescan and change all songs I've got in my mp3 player. Some gets too boring and I've totally memorize the lyrics already. My tastes are different but I love songs because of their meaning... Not just because they're new or popular or shits... Anyway, what's new about those songs is that I've finally decided to put some Korean songs inside it. Of course I get to choose what's in! It's not that I'm fascinated by them already but let just say I should listen to some.

Previous tracks of mine XD

I shall listen to these songs again one day... just to get that deja vu feel... :)

Labels: Family - Family Guy, Songs and Lyrics, Windows and Softwares

Sleepy hollow Add comment

Tuesday, December 13, 2011@December 13, 2011

It's nearly 3 in the morning and I have nothing to do.. I am so free right now despite the activities I've planned for my holiday. Waiting for my java installer to finish downloading cause I am so into the needs of playing Minecraft... Terrible graphic of that shit but I just love the gameplay. Been introduced by non other than my little brother and my sister started playing it before I did. Well then, temperature is still dropping and my body is nearer to freezing. Y U NO DOWNLOAD FASTER?!

Btw, dear blog I have to reinstall a newer windows version in my lap top. And the blaming awards should go for Explorer.exe for keeping to restart while I was minding my own business! And now I am using a Windows 7 installation with 64-bit of version (which I dislike) in here. I think it's the only version that suits my lap top RAM and the original setting. I hope it won't mind again processing memories from every applications I've installed here. Please do your job! Thank you.

I've watched sleepy hollow this night (finally!). I've been keeping it the day I could remember when the rest of the house keeps bla3-ing about the damn movie. I love the time setting and of course credits for the language they're using. Not forgotten the investigation story I have to figure out before its ends and the actors and actress they've chosen to play their role (Johnny Depp and christina Ricci). P/s: The movie was based on Tim Burton's. I bet you know who he is! Fantastico, Tim Burton! As expected!

Holiday is so fun! I could be like this forever! LOL

Labels: Family - Family Guy, MovieMarathon, Windows and Softwares

Al-hijab (2011) Add comment

Sunday, November 20, 2011@November 20, 2011

Dear Blog,

Before I take my bath I want to tell you everything I've undergone today :)
First thing first, I went to the town today with my parents and my youngest sister. I managed to remember what have I challenged myself and even hough all of my siblings were not around, I thought maybe I've fulfill one of them, right? It's nice to wander around town with my lovely sister and we shopped a lot. Most things were for me though LOL. My sister liked it as I could see - I hope I didn't teach her how to shop-a-lot and waste money. Bad brother!

And now we're watching movie, Al-Hijab. A Malay ghost movie acted by my all time most favourite actor : Pierre Andre (and some people said he looks just like me LOL) Bragging rights! F yeah! I wonder if hijjab can be taken away as in the movie cause I think I might have one. It's not a nice thing exactly to feel them (ehem~) without having the ability to see anything... Btw, I like the movie even though it didn't scare me much. I hate its ending as it tangled too.

I've already formatted my lap top (again) and I chose Windows Vista this time. Can't actually fix my disappearing taskbar problems and Vista makes my lappy slower and slower. Looks like I have to find another alternative to fix this s**t.

Labels: Family - Family Guy, MovieMarathon, Windows and Softwares

The Countdown : 13 Days left Add comment

Saturday, November 05, 2011@November 05, 2011

Challenge #5:
Le gaming...

Last year, the brothers have spent our time playing multiplayer games untul the the dawn of the next day. There's enough lappy for each of us in home so we can combine on our skills to eliminate the rivals (ceh~). This is actually not healthy but we enjoyed it very much. Next holiday we will play even more games for sure (since my younger brother has already figured a way to play GTA: San Andreas multiplayerly). If that wasn't a choice then we still have another collections. The internet is always here anyway.

So that's that.

Labels: Family - Family Guy, Windows and Softwares

Just another report Add comment

Saturday, October 29, 2011@October 29, 2011

Totally messed up these few days.. and it's all about how I've spent my holidays... I drank, but not a lot.. Quite to ease this mind and enough to warm the throat. I don't want to start doing things not worth for me (mostly embarrassing) and suddenly feel so regretful the other day I woke up - been there done that.

So, I watched a list of movies and dear blog please remind me of writing down a sentence or two about them, especially this. I've been leaving my site so long that I missed to write shits happened here. Shit happens, sometimes... Yeah...

Next thing next, I decided to install back a new Window version after all obstacles I have to go through last mid-term break (remember this?). That means, I have to look for a new Anti Virus program, a new PC utilizer and other bla bla I can totally put my trust on - and I found two of the AV (COOL!). You see, my sister's lappy was in a coma this morning and I have to vibe it. It was when I realized it needed a new breath and so I formatted it. Here it is, running happily as a new born! Congratulation!

Well, I guess that's all for now. will post again... tomorrow maybe?
Au revoir~

Labels: problems, Windows and Softwares

Mortal Kombat Add comment

Tuesday, October 04, 2011@October 04, 2011

Mortal Kombat XBOX 360 version reviews (as promised to the owner of the console - Mr. Udin).

Last week I've been spending my evening with a nice try out video game, Mortal Kombat, which has attracted my attention the first time I saw its reviews and thank God I did have the chances to give it a try. In times I have to play alone controlling every characters in it, I decided to complete the story mode (and I just did, yesterday).

Okay, to start out, this game is insaaaane.... I will never get sick of this game because there is so much to do. The test your luck, might, sight, and the other one is a great addition to the game (I've seen my juniors playing these modes and they shouted their words out so freaking loud!). This is the first fighting game I have been playing since the one I played 2 years ago and it was worth it as I even got the chance to complete its story mode. Watching powerful God-like moves and floods of blood, that's what I'm talking about.

If you like fighting you will like this. Even if you don't play fighting games or never have, you should still get it because this game is totally amazing. The storyline is enthralling but the boss battles are overpowering as the beginner is considered having the same level as the medium one - which actually does not make sense (read this somewhere on the internet). But it is still fun and there are still extra game modes like the challenge tower and test your might, skills etc etc you can try playing (which will never bore you to hell).

Kitana is one of my fav, she moves very fast!

The multilayer is another nice thing to be played but you have to be fair and square (as there are try hard and also cheap tactics - which is always useful when it comes to Boss battle) but you might want to consider if there are people who are at your level. Definitely go in practice mode though to get consolidated with a character and learn their moves.

As an additional graphical enhancement, player can buy (...is it?) additional goods in the krypt (be found in the game's menu). This mean, you can, with the money you've collected, buy additional musics, costumes, artworks and a secret fatality move for each fighter. Let me give you a hint. Remember, there are 4 parts of the krypts:

Blod marsh
Dead lands
Hollow of infestation
Meadow of despair

Bragging rights, I've unlocked all of the characters though. LOL

Labels: Windows and Softwares

Bila Eric jadi bibiran Add comment

Thursday, September 15, 2011@September 15, 2011

Salam sejahtera...

Pagi nih mau tulis panjang2 like a piece of s*it! I'm so uncomfortable right now... Sudah 1 minggu saya terpaksa tidur lewat untuk kasi siap assignments yang berlambak & due datenya pada hari yang SAMA dan tempat yang SAMA dan masa yang SAMA. Tasks kali nih tidaklah menyusahkan sangat, cuma minggu nih start dari hari Isnin jak banyak betul aktiviti anjuran kampus gue. Oleh itu tidur gue sudah tidak teratur dan terpaksa minum Nescafe banyak2 (yang tidak harus dicontohi oleh orang awam sekalian). Ditambah pula sama peer pressure yang makin lama makin teruk dan teruk dan teruk dan bau busuk bangkai + bau setukin + bau belacan + bau taik ayam yang berlegar2 di kampus (Sebenarnya ialah bau baja organik), badan gue sudah sakit-sakit sengal-sengal and I need massage (thinkin about going to Spa - Naaa~)...fuh I really have to manage my life better.

Semalam saya sempat Youtubing dan saya telah menjumpai video lagu kegemaran Mama gue..

Tajuknya ialah Kopposionku yang dinyanyikan oleh RON. X sangka tu lagu 2 tahun yang lalu sudah berlalu dan sekarang baru dinyanyikan di rumah. Haritu kami telah berparti di rumah Encik Lazarus (Tambunan). At first saya x tau dia tu artis Sabah but as my parents told me that, I was like.. OOOOooo (o_O) but really beliau memang layak dipanggil artis la kerana suaranya memang lunak... I'm gonna stop here and I'm not gonna post the pictures, let it be just be in my Family's albums.

Next,
Ugh baru habis telan 2 biji Panadol kerana Selesema gue tidak pandai sembuh2 ang my coughing has become more worst last night. Nasib baik esok cuti... Thinking about tidur awal malam nih and bangun awal pagi esok untuk kasi siap semua assignments (saya harap plan menjadi). Minggu nih Free call Thanks to Celcom atas pemberian tersebut:

Nih diatas merupakan untuk mu... Sama yang saya bagi si Nanak itu ari birthdaynya but I think it's cute. Yang di bawah nih pulak ialah yang Common di Facebook tapi terimalah hadiah dari gue (iaitu GIF image LOL)

X sabar cuti bulan 10 x sabar cuti panjang. Tapi x mau terlalu riak fikir pasal cuti, nanti x enjoy life sini. X sabar exam, because exam will always realize me how HOLIDAY is just around the corner! Fcuk yeah!

Semalam nampak pasal CUTI TAHUN 2012. Perasan kah kamu cuti panjang nanti sangat terhad - 31 December 2012 tu finale cuti (means saya perlu balik IP pada tanggal new year???) No way man! New year is New year... Waktu gue sekolah rendah dulu saya masih ingat lagi kerajaan bagi cuti seminggu extra selepas new year sebagai persiapan kemasukan ke sekolah. Please la orang sekarang, negara makin mundur la tax itu macam pun sana sini beli reload credit pun perlu bayar lebih. Apa sudah jadi sama negara kita nih? Next time voting, jangan sembarangan tick bah. Dapat bantuan television sana sini kunun padahal kerajaan sendiri bagi nasihat sama orang ramai untuk tidak percaya rasuah pembangkang. Buka bah tu mata kamu, terang-terang nampak di Berita TV2 RTM. Kalau saya masuk politik nanti baru kamu tau (but yeah, I will!)

BTW, sudah print kalendar bulan di bilik sebab Windows XP saya x support gadget dekstop. Ini merupakan gambar yang sudah saya letak di bilik...

Hell yeah I'm so obsessed about the moon. 12 Oktober Full moon... 26 Oktober New moon... Currently susah cari masa untuk Movie marathon. Saya rindu dah bukak skrin laptop menatap movie-movie baru dan lama rating it according to my fond and so on.

BTW,
UPSR last day nih ari. Semalam call rumah, adik ku berkata bahawa peperiksaan beliau sangat
senang. OOO yeah?! (o_O) Guess my family will go to Tambunan again this day (or tomorrow maybe?) I am so jealous la.. I want to spend days like these with my family la.. Mesti assignments tidak akan jadi bebanan kalau hari-hari nampak muka yang kita sayang bebenar.. LOL (I'm serious!)

oh ya.. Oleh kerana saya telah follow blog Weird Things. Saya telah melihat sendiri Kucing yang glowing in the dark. GM cat punya sebab tu dia wujud.

Kiyaaa~! I want one.. or two maybe... So I can get more! :P
Another cutey kitten face:

HUH???

Banyak lagi mau post.. Tapi entry ini akan diedit dari semasa ke semasa untuk tujuan penambahan. K See ya~

Labels: Family - Family Guy, MovieMarathon, problems, spooky, Windows and Softwares

Firefox Sucks! Add comment

Sunday, September 11, 2011@September 11, 2011

Short post for I'm gonna have my dinner early today...

I really wanna recall back what I did last week with my siblings and compare it to this weeks' but I haven't really updated my album's pictures. So, let it just be whenever I want.
This week will going to be the busiest I'll have this term because every assignments should be passed up within the week (but still I have the chances to watch my Family Guy collections) LOL

Don't get stressed up bah! Do whatever you want but keep your priorities posted.

I'm actually having problems with my Firefox as it keeps on posting alert messages like:
"We can not find the server........"
or
"The connection was reset while the page is loading...."

The only solution I found is to use another browser, Opera which I think qualified enough to be nominated... but the problem is, it can't really load any java script widget (which is a loss because I'm a blogger and .js is so important out of a hell to me!)

Any suggestions?

Labels: problems, Windows and Softwares

Holiday's report #1 Add comment

Saturday, June 04, 2011@June 04, 2011

Ok.. Selamat Sejahtera dunia..

KOTOBIAN TADAU TAGAYO DO KAAMATAN....

Banyak yang saya mau tulis pasal cuti nih kali tapi nih dulu la saya cakap aa...

Ehem...

Saya telah berusaha dengan keras selama ini untuk menjayakan pengInstallan WINDOWS XP di lap top saya..

Saya bosan sudah bekerja sama-sama Windows 7 (yang saya install dulu sebab graphic dia lawa seja LOL - Padahal xstabil!) Setelah kawan saya cakap yang Windows XP adalah jendela yang paling stabil dan kukuh oleh itu saya berjaya mendownload installer dia (700+MB) dari Mediafire dan install trus di laptop saya ini...

Windows XP paling latest a - Fresh dari ladang..

Malangnya selepas saya sudah intall nih jendela tingkap di laptop ku ini, CD driver segala benda tiada pulak di laptop.. oleh itu, saya Download lagi segala driver yang ada untuk kasi stabil laptop saya.. Secara tidak langsung dapatlah saya driver Acer yang paling latest HOHOOHOHO (tu pun lepas saya install Driver Doctor)..

Kamu bangga2 la sama WIndows 7 kamu.. Nanti lepas satu tahun baru saya tukar balik nih jendela Laptop.. Kali tu mau try Windows Vista pulak EHE..

Labels: motivation, Windows and Softwares

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