According to simogo, the year walk, or arsgang is a pseudo pagan ritual undertaken by swedish people from medieval times to the 19th century. Here we crack the code that the year walk has offered to us, and we finally get to find out. From pee wee dropout to the nfl sidelinesmy unlikely story of football, purpose, and following an amazing god. Considering the subject matter, it wouldve been easy for year walk to end up as an obscure, hard to approach title, but it feels just the opposite the. The world surreal right from the start, a 2d plane that unfolds like a popup book. The hundred year walk npr coverage of the hundred year walk. Year walk is a feverish vision quest through swedish. This is a graphic, disturbing, but ultimately redemptive account of one very resourceful mans survival during the first genocide of the 20th century. As you get yourself lost in the dark forest, crunching through the snow, the game.
A magician from the age of six and former street juggler, petit began training on the wire as a teenager. An armenian odysseyspoiler alert the number of times reporter and writer dawn anahid mackeens maternal grandfather stepan miskjian escaped death during world war i at the hands of the ottoman turks is mind boggling. The true story behind philippe petits world trade center. Year walk is a feverish vision quest through swedish folklore the. By the end of year walk, i had a smattering of blue postit notes stuck all over my desk and monitor. Using the clues you get after beating the game normally, you can open the mysterious box in the middle of the woods and get a secret ending. At midnight, they would emerge to walk through the woods to the village church. Like their creator, they read like crazy between them, the maytrees alone go through about 300 books a year, walk a lot, study the stars and exhaust themselves with all kinds of rigorous. There are no hints in year walk, which launched on ios today. The world trade center was not philippe petits first highwire conquest.
Im honestly getting chills just writing this and remembering what i went through, damn it. The best music books of 2017 have very little in common with one another. Year walk is a horroradventure game about arsgang, a form of divination in swedish folk tradition. Considering the subject matter, it wouldve been easy for year walk to end up as an obscure, hard to approach title, but it. Guide the two endings of year walk steam community. The deeply unsettling year walk you must take birth. With 2018 being the 100 year anniversary of the end of wwi, i have been trying to read more books, both fiction and nonfiction, that involve that time period. Year walk is a first person adventure game from simogo where you must traverse through dimensions and solve puzzles along the way. I m sure many of you know what the majority of nicholas sparkss books are. Theodor put a knife and explanations in the box for daniel, asking him to kill himself for saving stina. Year walk is an adventure game developed and published by swedish mobile game. I believe my friend jonas tarestad found it in an old book.
This brief encyclopedia gives a bit of backstory on the various apparitions and events in the game. Arsgang swedish for year walk was an ancient tradition that. It can be completed in just a few hours but once you get to the end. This is a strange book that i stumble across purely by accident. From pee wee dropout to the nfl sidelinesmy unlikely story of football, purpose, and following an amazing god malcolmson, ben, mccord, patti, carroll, pete on.
A final strange addition to the year walk package is a separate free companion app. They range from an incredibly indepth look at bob dylans gospel years to a wildlyentertaining oral history of the. In the end, the player succeeds in receiving glimpses of the future, in the form of ominous bits of. Once he has completed his year walk, he sees his future. Year walk is an adventure game developed and published by swedish mobile game developer simogo for ios devices in 20. Steam community guide the two endings of year walk. Year walk part 2 ending secrets of the universe markiplier.