I didn’t know, and so why on Earth should I take that away from you for when you play it? As for where the story goes, indeed what the story is even about, it would be ludicrous to touch on it. Why Henry is there, away from his wife, is explained in the opening minutes of the game, and yet I cannot bring myself to reveal it. I’m struggling to think of any other game without “Valve” on the box that has such expert and faultless voice work. Rich Sommer and Cissy Jones provide performances that are easily among the best in gaming history, instantly creating believable, smart and engagingly splendid characters, utterly acing the timing and pathos of a simply fantastic script. The two spar throughout, in the best double-act in gaming since Gordon and Alyx, except this time both get to shine. And what life.ĭelilah is a magical combination of witty and curmudgeonly, quickly calculating how best to skewer Henry’s sincerity, and bringing out the best in him in response. Whether to get straight information, teasingly banter with each other, or let loose impressive torrents of swear-filled rants, it’s in this dialogue that the game is given life. While you can directly interact with all of these, pick them up and examine them in your hand, tidy them away, carefully stamp them out, it’s by hitting Shift and speaking to Delilah about them that you discover the vocabulary of the game. As you investigate the source of some fireworks being let off nearby, for instance, you’ll encounter discarded litter, abandoned clothing, and smouldering campfires. The radio is really the keystone of the game, the primary means by which you interact with the world.
Delilah is your boss, a coordinator in a distant tower who gives you tasks, natters away to you as you hike around the game’s sprawling hinterlands, and responds to your queries as you radio in things you find. Once you've arrived at your cosy cabin above the trees, the game proper begins, with the sardonic voice of Delilah at the other end of a little yellow walkie-talkie. Not ones that will enormously influence the plot of the game, but enormously influence how you interpret the man you’re playing. And as you click through the micro-text adventure of the previous decade and a half you make decisions, subtle choices about the kind of person Henry is. Immediately it’s apparent that this is going to be a very pretty game – its gorgeous cartoon style boasting rich colours, a bulky, bold design, and wonderful vistas of trees, boulders and ravines stretching into the distance. These are interspersed by Henry’s arrival in the wilderness of Wyoming, 1989, hiking from his truck to a distant look-out tower where he plans to spend his Summer.
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In a series of text-led vignettes, you learn how they get together, marry, and start to develop problems. Things begin in 1975, where you – Henry – first meet your future wife, Julia. In many ways it is the evolutionary step forward from the conceit behind many of Telltale’s adventures, where that sense of disconnect, of being an observer, is almost entirely shed. It’s a story you’re being told, but one in which you’ll feel heavily involved.
Firewatch is a simply beautiful game: beautiful in its presentation, in its sadness, in its pace.įirewatch is a tale in a way so few games are. Goodness me, what a wonderful post-game feeling.
Does the gentle tale of Wyoming wilderness captivate? Here's wot I think: Campo Santo's Firewatch is finally with us, released tomorrow on Steam (and on something called a "PS4").
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