Moonrise Fall - Worth falling for
Moonrise Fall opens with a dramatic and harrowing car crash. As an introduction it’s cryptic, but it’s clear that the victims were a kid and his parents. The boy survived, the parents didn’t. As haunting music plays, the boy appears to transcend – perhaps to heaven, perhaps into unconsciousness – eventually finding himself in a mysterious, dreamlike forest with nothing but a journal, lantern, camera, and one hell of a creepy mask.
Like many things in Made From Strings’ brain-teasing puzzler, it’s all open to interpretation. The opener is straightforward, but it hits in the right places. Its emotional resonance – aided by a fantastically expressive score – sticks with you one throughout this odd spiritual journey. It raises a lot of questions, too. Who is the boy? Where or what is this forest? Did he survive the crash? There’s an engaging central mystery here, but one you’ll have to work to uncover.
By work, of course, I mean photographing the forest’s weird and wonderful inhabitants. As you explore, your journal populates with encounters with odd creatures and unusual entities. Following along with these well-written riddles helps you snap familiar yet deeply unearthly beings. They’re rewarding to find and their unnatural shapes and varied designs make them exciting to reveal...