Earthborne Rangers Game Review

When I was a child, I would spend hours in the woods surrounding my New England home. My mom gave me a pretty long leash, and I used it. A pack of Toasty Peanut Butter crackers would go into my pocket and off I would go into the trees, to walk along the stream while poking and prodding.

My time there was spent half-lost in imagination and half-fully absorbed by the real world. I spent a lot of time crouched over the stream, watching the water striders. I was fascinated by the dents their legs made in the surface of the water, dents that I only later understood to be a result of surface tension. Though we had turkey, deer, and snakes in those woods, those water striders were about the biggest thing I ever saw. Spotting a chipmunk was a thrill. In retrospect, a lone eight-year old may have lacked the elegance and grace necessary to not scare away anything within hearing distance.

Most of my time in those woods was spent with the geography. A clay wall to dig into. A felled tree to climb across. Skunk cabbage, which I either thought or pretended—hard to say—you couldn’t step on, lest it would transform into swamp. Massive rock formations that simply must have housed bears. That forest, in…

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