I got lost occasionally, which is no doubt deliberate. On maximum graphics, it is pretty, but in a stylised rather than photorealistic way, which did not wholly visually enrapture me. Perhaps this is what developer Campo Santo wants players to experience after all of their lofty expectations for Delilah and the extraneous drama funnels into an anticlimactic conclusion. There was, for my taste, a bit too much walking. That is Firewatch’s most beautiful ending. (I took several photographs of a passing butterfly.) The game designers clearly want you to appreciate the world they’ve built – they even give you a disposable camera to allow you to take photos of it to savour. The environment is colourful, well-polished, and eventually succumbs to some powerful weather effects that add visual grandeur, while perhaps not-so-subtly acting as the game’s metaphorical underpinning. Mostly, you walk the forests fortunately, there is plenty to see. Delilah, who is a purely authorial creation, outclasses her video-game peers. Of the two characters, it is the player’s personality that is more the cipher, alternating between player-provided backstory and script. The relationship between the two characters – how it switches from flirting to ghost stories to distrusts and paranoia, via long stretches of emotional vulnerability – is sustained and developed excellently, with a denouement that, to most, will be an affecting payoff. The dialogue is strong, but the acting is stronger: Delilah is one of the most convincing video game characters I’ve encountered, and there are story beats that are wonderfully witty and affecting.ĭelilah is a flawed and possibly unreliable narrator. In Henry's radio-only relationship with Delilah, there are flavours of Twin Peaks' Agent Cooper and his dictaphone pal Diane – had she ever appeared on screen. Your only contact with the outside world is Delilah, Henry’s boss, who is on the other side of a walkie-talkie.īut strange things are a-happening in Two Forks Woods, and paranoia begins to take hold as Henry moves from firespotting to trying to figure out just exactly what is going on. The year is 1989, and you are Henry, a middle-aged man with tragedy in his backstory and a weight on his heart, who has exiled himself to the forests of Wyoming to take a job spotting for fires in the wilderness. Boulder - A Firewatch fan-fiction by thecarrothead19 5.6K 99 6 Almost and entire year after the events of Firewatch, and little contact between Delilah and Henry, when Delilahs life kind of, in her own words, went to shit, she move.
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