Firewatch

This game kept popping up everywhere I looked. Someone, somewhere was pushing it pretty heavily. It had great reviews, far better than the current review score, and a lot of talk about the amazing story. Unfortunately, about 30 minutes into the game I had built up an idea about what I thought was going on in the story and it turned out to be far more dull of an ending than that. I would put my crazy theory out there on this review, but honestly, the story is so thin that saying what I thought it was going to be reveals more than a potential buyer should know going in. I'll just say that if you've seen the movie Memento, that's kind of where I thought things were going. For a game with so much story, it was really thin on actual story. Maybe I didn't find enough conversation triggers or something like that, but by the end I was sitting there thinking "Oh, really, that's it? No more twists? No more surprises? It's really just this and that's all? Well... ok. Cool, I guess." On the up side, the voice acting was tremendous. Kudos to both characters. What little story there was, was painted extremely believably by these talented artists. Thanks for your great work and dedication on this.

I feel that this game should have other tags: visual novel and walking simulator. Definitely NOT adventure. Although it has great voice acting and lets you choose the dialogs it does not offer any other kind of interactivity. It is very immersive - even a map is a piece of paper held in your hands. I really missed the "game" part. The game basically makes you go from one place to another and talk through walkie talkie. Nothing happens there. And the story really let me down.

At times this game really draws you in with a spooky mystery, but the end is very anticlimatic. The map and compass way of navigating the game is very frustrating at times as well. Worth a play if you get it on sale and you enjoy narrative driven games without much action.

Seriously, there is no actual game here. Choices are just dialogue, there is no actual choice, no actual gameplay. It's an interactive video with a bunch of time waste running here and there but all linear. That said the voice acting is really good and the atmosphere is well done. So if you're looking for a not game instead of watching a movie, sure. But make sure it's on deep sale because there's no replay here. It's a one and done if you even make it that far before you're bored or frustrated with the lack of anything to actually do or affect the story.

The game had parts that made it seem very interesting and deep and made the player feel as if something really scary/crazy/interesting was happening or going to happen, but it never went anywhere at all. Without mentioning spoilers, I can honestly say that literally nothing important happens. You're just playing and some things happen that are not very interesting, and all the details you hoped would lead somewhere interesting are just left sitting there and never answered as to what was really going on. Then some other random and seemingly very unrelated details that you can't be expected to care about as the player when they suddenly show up, just appear and pretend they're some huge revelation, when they really just feel like they were glued into a hole in the end story with old dried movie theater chewing gum from under the seat. I don't know why they think this was okay to just build up something interesting and then essentially sideline it and sweep it all under a rug and then blame everything on some other factor who really didn't have any logical or illogical motivation to do things the way they happened. You as the player get the story like 1+2+3+4+5=(NOPE nothing here!)(What I really mean is)1+left=upside down???? You're just left sitting there like "WHAT? WHY? That's unfair to the story, the player, the character, and makes no sense!" It's feels like the developer or writer had a vision for some kind of vague low budget mystery/suspense movie but never really continued to illustrate and finish that idea, but then just took that totally unfinished idea and plopped it down and said "Hey lets make an entire video game out of this" and we're all just left like... what...?