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• #Dear esther reddit series

In this wonderfully creative and beautifully crafted game, you play as Edith Finch who returns to her homestead to uncover her family history, and discover why she’s the last remaining Finch left alive. It takes you on an emotional journey you might not have first expected, and What Remains of Edith Finch certainly fits that bill and then some. The magic of Firewatch is that there’s so much more to it than meets the eye. If you’re a Campo Santo fan, Fullbright Company’s atmospheric story-driven exploration game will tick all the right boxes for you.Īvailable on: PC, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch Everything you find helps to shape an interesting narrative that explores some very relatable themes, too.

You’ll want to check every inch of each room to make sure you don’t miss anything that might give you some insight. The house is completely empty, and something feels off.Īs you work your way through the house, you’ll have to search through draws and cupboards, read notes and messages, and listen to tapes and answering machines, to try to piece together just what has happened while you were away. Set in 1995, you return home after a year abroad to find that your family isn’t there. Instead of exploring the outdoor world, the entirety of the game takes place in a house, but with so many rooms to explore and secrets to uncover, it’s still just as intriguing. There’s a good chance that I’ll play it again too, something has obviously resonated with me.Firewatch is filled with mystery, exploration and an engaging story, and Gone Home packs all of these elements in its own unique way. A sense of isolation overcame me while the grim environment kept me emotionally sombre and though I felt the need just to stop playing, I also felt that I needed a conclusion.Īfter finishing my short playthrough (around 1-2 hours), I found myself revisiting the game a further two times – once to make sense of what I’d witnessed and another to listen to the included director’s commentary. When playing the game at home by myself, I easily lost myself to the game. While the extent of your abilities lays solely on looking and moving, that does not mean that it’s your only focus.ĭuring a recent Curve Digital preview event, an effort had been made to create an immersive experience by playing in a darkened room and setting the air conditioning too low – effectively providing a harsh coastal feeling. But anything else from there (option & share buttons not included) acts as a small zoom function, and that’s it – here’s no picking objects up, no puzzles and no jump/climb function. You have the well known first person console controls, with the left stick used to move and right to adjust your position of view. While personally, I feel that term is an over-simplification, here it’s a hard one to argue as there is little interaction you can partake in while playing. If you’ve never played Dear Esther or any other game similar in nature, you may still have heard the label of “walking simulator” thrown around. Admittedly, I had to look up a Let’s Play video to see the original PC title running in Valve’s Source engine in comparison to the new Unity 5 version on PlayStation 4 & Xbox One systems.

Upon looking around your environment the sea, sky, grass and ground, the effort made into recapturing the game’s original aesthetic while rebuilding into something breathtaking is apparent.

#Dear esther reddit series

As you take your first steps forward, the game’s enchanting score begins as a man’s voice can be heard, reading a series of letters to a woman named Esther. Surrounding your view are the sea, a house close by and lighthouse in the distance. Beginning without explanation, you find yourself on an uninhabited Hebridean island the sky is dark and the atmosphere dreary.