Once upon a time, there was a little firefly...
- Trees arc overhead, providing shelter
Their branches sway in the wind
The moon and the stars adorn themselves
That no one will fear to look up
Far below
A fire dances amid grasses of the southern forest...
She and the Light Bearer is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Indonesian company Mojiken and Toge Studios, with graphics resembling a children's fairy-tale storybook coming to life, set in a vibrantly-coloured forest environment.
"She", of the title, is a little Firefly, separated from her mother during a voyage; searching throughout the forest, the Firefly encounters a wide variety of sentient, talking plants who claims to know her mother's whereabouts, offering various clues that can lead the Firefly to her mother's location, provided that the Firefly complete a series of trials and puzzles for them. With nothing to lose, the Firefly goes on a lengthy journey, earning the title of the Light Bearer, uncovering ancient secrets of the forest and realizing she is nature's last hope.
In those desperate times, one little Firefly carries out its task to find its mother...
- Animesque: The game's graphics are a blend of fairytale-ish colours and with a touch of anime added, especially in depicting Firefly's expressions.
- Body Horror: A PG version that's Played for Laughs, when King Potato decides to scam Firefly over her cucumber. Just then, King Potato's curiosity causes the (animated) cucumber to panic and secrete moisture from it's skin upon Potato's, the latter whose skin is dry, resulting in dozens of potato buds sprouting all over King Potato's body. It's meant to be a comedic moment, but Potato's Freak Out and subsequent expression of pure horror is priceless.
- The Corruptor: The Devourers, an ancient race of creatures spawned from the night who lives only to devour light itself. They escaped into the world near the end and corrupts the forest into darkness, until Firefly uses all three pieces of the puzzle to restore them back to normal.
- A Dog Named "Dog": None of the characters are given names, but are instead referred by what they are (except Gloomy the Rafflesia). There's the Orchid sisters, the Berry, Acorn, Mr. Reed, King Potato, and of course the protagonist, the Firefly (who later earns the name "Light Bearer").
- Expy: Mushroom is basically Anger as a Mushroom Man, from his short Hair-Trigger Temper to the fact that he's depicted as a red square with limbs, and right down to his mannerisms and tendency to wave both arms up and down whenever he's letting out steam. It's... rather blatant
. - Forgotten Framing Device: The game begins with a group of children about to go to sleep, and their grandmother tells them a bedtime story about the Indonesian "Legend of the Light Bearer", which then segues into the Firefly's introduction and proper gameplay. The final stage however never gets back to the children or grandmother.
- Nervous Wreck: Gloomy spends the whole game moody and downbeat, on the verge of breaking into tears, and seems to be afraid of her own shadow. She's a rafflesia (a South-East Asian flower known for growing in isolation and it's infamously awful stench).
- Punny Name: The largest NPC is a gigantic tree named... Tree-Mendous.
- Rule of Three: Firefly must solve three riddles from Mr. Reed, complete three trials before finishing the game, and obtain three pieces of the MacGuffin puzzle to awaken mother nature.
- Speak in Unison: The orchid quadruplets all speak together, befitting a bunch of flower-kids growing off the same stalk.
- Tomato Surprise: Firefly's "mother" isn't referring to her literal mother firefly, but instead refers to Mother Nature herself. Who, upon being revived by Firefly, takes on a human-like physical form.
- Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: Firefly tends to sport this expression when panicking... especially the final scene when she realized the Devourers are loose and she's in the middle of a cavern containing several dozens of those things.
- Let the new sprout replace withered plants. Let us turn our forest green once again.
