NeriSiren’s Secret Paths: Into Spring (a mock-playthrough)
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Published 2023-04-27
This is my first foray into the wilds of YouTube, and I’d like to begin with a series of mock-playthroughs of my own imaginary self-insert version of the Secret Paths CD-ROM games by Purple Moon. These are still my all-time favorite games to return to (praise SheepShaver!) when I need a good 90stalgia fix.
And so! Here is the version I like to call Secret Paths into Spring! The treehouse and lighthouse backgrounds, as well as most of the gameplay sounds, are from the original Secret Paths in the Forest and Secret Paths to the Sea games, respectively. The actual “paths” consist of photos from various real-life NeriSiren adventures.
The music in the final Story segment is from Videoleap’s stock music library, titled “I Believe in Fairy Tales.”
And yes, for some reason I made one of the paper doll mini-me’s an owl faery. Because I’m a huge David Bowie/Labyrinth fangirl.
As for the books recommended in the Story section, they are as follows:
📖 Faeries (25th Anniversary Edition), by Brian Froud and Alan Lee
📖 The Goblins of Labyrinth, by Brian Froud & Terry Jones
📖 The Field Guide to Mermaids, by Emily B. Martin
📖 Dealing With Dragons, by Patricia C. Wrede
📖 The Moorchild, by Eloise McGraw
📖 Keeper, by Kathi Appelt
📖 Melissa, by Alex Gino
📖 The Changeling, by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
📖 Black Water Sister, by Zen Cho
The dedication near the end is from The Moorchild, by Eloise McGraw.