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The Forest Cathedral review: Can Silent Spring work as a game?

Turning a legendary environmental non-fiction book into a video game is an ambitious project. It opens as a ladybird dies in a fog of DDT, but goes downhill after that, finds Jacob Aron

5 April 2023

The Forest Cathedral Whitethorn Games — Monitors on the island let you play a 2D video game-within-the-game
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The Forest Cathedral

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THE opening of The Forest Cathedral is one of the most arresting I have seen in a video game. Unfortunately, it all goes downhill from there.

When I first came across this game, an adaptation of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson’s massively influential book, it seemed to have been designed with New Scientist readers in mind. Carson was a biologist and conservationist who discovered that the pesticide DDT, intended to …

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