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It is a welcomed evolution of the stationary choice-based dialogue trees (you use the triggers so you can walk, talk, and probably even chew gum at the same time). This makes up the bulk of the gameplay: walking around, chatting with Delilah via radio. These are familiar, real-world issues.Īs Henry settles into his role as lookout, ascending his tower after an eight mile hike, he is met by the voice of Delilah, his boss, who communicates with him via walkie-talkie. While Julia and the relationship are defined in broad strokes, the choice doesn’t feel as abstract as choosing to save a character and let another die in The Walking Dead, for example. I didn’t expect to be hit that hard by two white text options, but the decision to keep minding her around the house 24/7 or put her in a home was not easy - and I don’t even know what she looks like. Julia, by then Henry’s wife, comes down with early onset Alzheimer’s. Mixing these text-adventure-style segments with Henry’s dutiful trek into the woods makes them more poignant because you already know how it ends. More than affecting the outcome of that relationship (you already know he is escaping to the Wyoming woods by the mid-80s), they take on personal meaning in how you sharpen elements of Henry’s character. When your girlfriend Julia wants a dog, do you accept the beagle she falls in love with, or insist you get a German shepherd (for protection)? When she asks about children, do you ask her to wait? These choices are not superficial they are real-life important. Not unlike Kentucky Route Zero, a high mark in the adventure game genre, Firewatch opens with opportunities for the player to partially define Henry’s character.

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These bits are done purely with text and music, interspersed by full three dimensional segments of Henry walking out of an elevator into a parking garage and getting into his beat up, fire-engine red pickup.

She feels so bad for him she gives him a pity date that turns into a relationship. Why else retreat to the woods of Wyoming to become a fire lookout? It starts in Colorado when Henry, plastered, tries to hit on a woman at a bar. The studio brings together the writers of Telltale’s The Walking Dead (season 1), the designer of Mark of Ninja, acclaimed artist Olly Moss and, with the rest of the crew, proves to be a formidable team for tackling a character-driven piece of intrigue and blistering Crush-colored skylines. If you could translate the insult quadrant of their brains you’d have the most precise web algorithms in the world and only ever see cute animal gifs and Missy Elliot songs.įirewatch is a first-person mystery and the first release for Campo Santo. The drunk, nude teens bathing in the lake at sunset summed up Firewatch neatly: “you’re just some sad man out in the woods.” Kids always know just where to cut.