Firewatch
14 hour of playtime, 10 of 10 achievements
★★★☆☆
I had been wanting to play this for a long time and finally bought it when it dropped to 5€ and I’m glad I waited. This game was overhyped for me, the game was good but not great, certainly not as great as most people try to make it out. The story is ok but nothing amazing. The game is fairly well made for the most part, though I did encounter some bugs. What I missed was outside the main story there’s very little to do or find in the open world and you have to backtrack a lot throughout the game.
TL;DR A decent walking simulator, but not as great as most people make it out to be. Definitely not worth 20€, buy in a sale.
I wouldn’t buy it for 20€ ofc for less, long live Pipo.
I don’t know who Pipo is, but hurray? I guess? Maybe?
Definitely not worth 20€/$ though.
I can definitely see how hype made the game less enjoyable - I’ve had my fair share of games end up being less fun than everyone made it out to be.
How did you feel about the ending?
Spoiler:
I wanted to dump my wife and go for romance with a radio
but Delilah was just playing with you. IIRC she’s been in contact with that guy whose kid died in the park the whole time.
I feel like you should replay the game, you definitely got something wrong somewhere. Delilah is (for the most part) honest with you throughout the game, and she most certainly was not in contact with the person who’s kid died. She even judges that person quite harshly when you find out, where she accuses him of murder, while it could have simply been an accident. She does lie about her (ex-)boyfriend Javier.
I had not heard about that theory, still there are counterpoints to that theory and for me personally the rest can be argued to be plot holes, the story certainly isn’t perfect. To me it doesn’t make sense that Delilah would work with Ned, since she has no motivation to help him whatsoever and literally has nothing good to say about him throughout the entire game. But everyone is free to believe what they want.
I liked the ending. I don’t see how it could have ended any other way despite people hoping they would hook up IRL.
Sometimes hype can live up to what it promises like in “Life is Strange”, but in most cases it doesn’t. I’ve had it happen many times as well, though I’ve also had the opposite happen where everyone hates it, but I love it.
I though the ending was ok for the most part except for them not meeting up, which did bum me out for a bit. I’m glad they went with a more realistic approach to why things happened instead of going out of their way to reveal something over the top and dramatic, which made the experience feel more real to me. After I went through the game again with the developer’s commentary, them not meeting up did make more sense to me and I like to think they would have met up if they hadn’t found the body of the person she was so close to. Still even if it makes sense it did leave a bad taste in my mouth that everything is just bad and there’s no silver lining to any of the story.
I’m with you there. The ending was realistic… it’s just TOO realistic, in the sense of, like, damn, if I want realism, I’ll just go outside!
That’s very astute that you brought up them finding the boy’s body - I think that realizing that he had died, and was dead the whole time, made Delilah have a wake-up call that made realize she had to stop running from her life. Unfortunately, she had that epiphany without Henry.
The game does leave you with a sad feeling in the end, but I personally liked the realistic approach otherwise.
Well it seemed to me her mood quickly changes when she hears about that news and she feels very responsible for his death. So it makes sense that she’d want to deal with it alone and acts so distant towards the end.
I’ve been interested in this for a while but not for the price its been.
just have to wait for it to be bundled I guess
Somewhere between 5 to 10€/$ seems to be a fair price IMO. Though I do tend to lean closer to 5€/$ which is what I bought it for, if you want even more of a discount than you’re just being cheap :p I think the odds of it being bundled are quite low, unless you’re extremely patient. I’ve been following the game for over 2 years since it came out and only in the last summer Steam sale did it drop to 5€/$. Also it’s only being sold on Steam and GOG as far as I can tell, so again your chances of it being bundled are pretty bad, sorry.