Melding horror elements with adventure, mythology and literature, it’s unlike any other game out there.īut what is a year walk? Årsgång (Swedish for "year walk") was an ancient tradition that purportedly allowed the person to see into the future. It’s easy to describe Simogo’s latest iOS app as a first-person puzzle game but that’s a vast simplification of what you’ll find here. I’m looking around my dark room as if expecting something to happen, some apparition to appear, but nothing does. frantic, he flees the palace in search of his beloved.I put down my phone and yanked my earbuds out, and I can’t shake what I just experienced. Siegfried now sees the vision of the weeping Odette and understands his mistake. The prince innocently complies, and when he has done so, Von Rothbart and Odile mockingly reveal their true identities. Immediately the prince's mother expresses her approval, but Von Rothbart demands that the young man swear a formal oath. At the conclusion of their dance, Siegfried declares his love for Odile and his desire to marry her. As the duet reaches its brilliant climax, the real Odette appears as a vision, but Von Rothbart spellbinds the court and so deludes the prince. Siegfried and the beguiling Odile begin the exultant Black Swan pas de deux. Siegfried is enraptured thinking he has found Odette again. They are Von Rothbart and his daughter Odile, whom he has transformed into a semblance of Odette. At this moment trumpets sound the arrival of two uninvited guests. At the end of the dance, he informs his mother that he cannot marry any of them. The queen mother and the prince appear, as well as five prospective fiancées (respectively Spanish, Hungarian, Neapolitan, and a pair of sisters from Russia) but his thoughts remain with Odette. The guests assemble for the great ball in which Prince Siegfried is to find his bride. Yuan Yuan Tan and Tiit Helimets in Tomasson’s Swan Lake // © Erik Tomasson Left alone with her beloved, Odette bids him a tender farewell and reluctantly reassumes her enchanted form. When she appears, they express their tragic love in an adagio pas de deux.ĭawn begins to break and the pale light tells the maidens that they must again change back into swans. At its end, Siegfried returns, seeking Odette. The remaining swan maidens appear and dance their celebrated waltz.
Von Rothbart escapes and Odette runs away followed by the prince. When Siegfried seizes his crossbow and takes aim, Odette shields the evil enchanter, for if he should die the spell imprisoning her could never be broken. Siegfried at once declares his eternal devotion, but no sooner has he done so that Von Rothbart appears. This spell can only be broken if a man promises his love and remains faithful to that vow. By day they are condemned to take the form of swans and only at night can they regain their human shapes. When he assures her that he means no harm, Odette reveals to him that she and her companions have been placed under a spell by the wicked Von Rothbart. The prince is captivated by her soulful countenance and starts to approach her, but she becomes frightened and turns from him.
In awe, he aims his crossbow when suddenly one of the swans is transformed into a beautiful woman. At the lakeside, the prince encounters a magnificent flock of swans.
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