A small herd’s-worth of horses await you in the stable, each eager and friendly to meet their potential new rider. Simply select one from this dropdown. You can switch between horses at any time, and care for them here in the stable. Additionally, you can read below to learn more about your horse’s personality and breed.
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The Horse Girl is an even more well known and archetypical phenomenon. Perhaps it can be traced back to the myth of the unicorn bonding with an innocent maiden, or maybe the appeal of a “special bond” with a powerful animal is just universally enticing. There are plenty of movies and shows about horses being trained and rescued by young female protagonists to the point of parody and widespread mockery, both due to the target audience, and the way horse media frequently demands sincerity from its audience. And this prevalence and ridicule of horse girl media has also applied to games- though the options on the market have always left much to be desired. (This is likely due to games aimed for young girls being considered “less serious”, so many games like this are shovelware rather than proper titles with passion put into them. I recommend checking out the blog The Mane Quest to learn more about the way horse games tend to fall victim to this tendency).
Video games seem like the perfect medium for horse girls, which makes this “curse” a real shame. Horse girls crave the interactivity that a video game can simulate; often video games are used as a way to make up for the inability to own a real horse. They’re expensive animals: a horse owner must have a good amount of land, the money to spend on food, farrier visits, and more; not to mention the time investment to go regularly riding and keep the horse groomed and healthy. It is why there are so many horse toys, shows, and more, to appeal to this fantasy. One of the most popular model horse brands, Breyer, even has the tagline "A Horse of my Very Own". While I was one of the lucky few who got riding lessons as a child (as well as the unique opportunity to volunteer with a therapy horse facility for a little over a year), I still turned to horse games to fulfill my equestrian dreams. And after the Flash shutdown, many of these avenues are now closed for good, flawed though they were.
Even the horse games that do exist don't really do much to scratch my itch. And I really do think this comes down to interactivity... There’s this emphasis on breeding and collecting and stats and getting the best horse genetics for racing and growing economically, and so on, but no way to stroke my faithful steed’s nose and watch it take an apple from my hand, to understand its unique personality. To have a friend. When I play a game, be it a browser game or otherwise, I want to be immersed in the world, and immersed in the artificial lives of those that inhabit it. Taking this into consideration, there’s nothing that makes me feel the same way Bella Sara did, with its worldbuilding, and mysterious and beautiful horses, each a unique individual. There was a sense of mystery and wonder. Maybe it was because I was a kid then, but the world of North of North just felt so much more vast.
The horses that lived in my childish dreams live here now. I wanted to achieve at least some of that wonderment. Each horse has their own personality, quirks, and unique skills. Each has a digitally personified life and soul, if you let yourself reach towards it.
I hope you'll find a friend here.