I did the latter because the dialogue and voice acting is so good. You can choose to either be an ass, or not to respond to her when she talks, or be an extremely annoying helpless man by calling in every single small observation you make. They chat together through walkie-talkies.īasically, this boils down to you exploring the wilderness and being sent on errands by Delilah. His only source of human contact is Delilah, his superior who manages a number of watchmen around the park. The game is set in the 1980’s before mobile phones and all the other fancy stuff we are used to so deciding to chill in a tower in the middle of the woods for a summer is a lonesome experience. Instead of making up his mind about what to do (a theme established at the very instant of the game), he decides to spend the summer as a watchman in Shoshone National Park. Henry is kind of a jerk, but not in a “this is the bad guy” way, but rather the kind of jerk we all have been. You play as Henry, a man whose wife has early on-set dementia and has moved half way across the world to be with her family as she slowly forgets who everyone is. There are no monsters or skills or guns or any other of that video game crap.
#Firewatch delilah face simulator
The game is what’s called, tongue in cheek, a walking simulator although the genre is really an iteration of interactive fiction. The story of Firewatch, from beginning to conclusion, is an arc all to familiar to those who have put more than a few years behind them. Not because of all the gratuitous sex (spoilers: there are none), not because of the copious amounts of drugs and “mature themes” (spoilers: there are none) and not because of language (spoilers: there is a lot). They sit idle staring at the paths before them, choosing instead to escape their reality and put off coping with their hardship. An almost fitting poem for the characters of Firewatch, except none of them get past the first stanza.
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