The Suicide of Rachel Foster

who makes a game nowadays with no option to tweak fov slider, head bob and other simple fixes to accommodate game induced nausea. apparently these devs do. couldnt even get past the intro section when my characters head bobbed like it was in an earthquake even tho she was only walking out of her car. slowly. blurg. why do devs think head bob is a thing anyways, our point of view when walking doesnt sway and bob and dip like that, well it does but our brains compensate for the movement. anyway, gonna get a refund on this hot mess. btw, really loved the anti abortion blurp at the beginning of game which pretty much told me all i needed to know about the devs

I started out not really liking the main character much and finding the story kind of slow. It really did get better as it went and by the end I thought it was amazing, loved the twists and turns and had a better appreciation for Nicole. I think there is a fair bit that is left up to interpretation that I would have liked answered but it is by no means an incomplete story. I won’t post spoilers but the story ended up being one of my all time favourites in terms of walking sim games. It felt like a more macabre version of Firewatch. The game did have some wasted parts to it. You can pick up a fair bit of objects but they provide exactly nothing to the story aside from the items you are meant to pick up. The map system was decent but I think it could have done a little better job marking certain locations so it was less maze like. There are also a fair bit of dialogue choices but I can’t seem to find anything that they actually do as the story is extremely linear. There is also a timer on those choices which I found varied at time with sometimes getting a solid 30 seconds or so and other times getting just a split second to choose. The voice acting is great as is the music although certain bits of music were a tad overused. The graphics are fairly well done. The object detail ranges from excellent to decent. The animations are also well done. I played TSORF on Linux using Wine. It never crashed. I did notice a slight issue where on a multi monitor setup the game would move things from one window to the other when in full-screen. It was an easy fix as I just unchecked full-screen. The game has a resolution setting, a v-sync toggle, and one graphics option. The v-sync toggle is useless as the game has a 60 FPS cap by default. The performance was the full 60 FPS with exception to 1 drop to 59 FPS. The game uses a checkpoint save system where there is only one save file that gets overwritten each time. The game also erases your save file after you finish the game.

it seems the developers really don't want you to sit back and enjoy at your own pace it was on sale, no quarrels... to the dev team the player has to be able to save a game as they see fit, especially in complex story driven games like this my goodness !!! as the game is

I think it is problematic . This game jsut validate that a 40 something teacher abuse a 16 year old girl. The story is only driven into justify such act. I don't have issue with morally ambigious things but this game give only the voice to the predator and not the victim. it is a 4 hours game defending Humbert Humbert and it is not ok

WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS- Ok, so there's a huge elephant in the room with this game. It's low rating? It's because of one of the main plot-points. *MINOR SPOILER*- There's a romance between a 16 year old and a older pedophile. Now, I'd like to say that the big misconception of the game is that the relationship seems to be promoted as a good thing because of the word "love." I do not believe this to be the case. Yes, one of the characters seems to be upset because of Rachel's alleged suicide, and rightfully so I might add. Suicide is not a fun topic or experience for those left behind. I don't want to give everything away here... But to quell the taboo about this game let me say that I did not get the feeling that the whole point was to condone pedophilia. I think it actually was a pretty good message about how NOT to treat the victims of pedophilia. The victim DOES have a voice in the game, it just isn't in a way that is expected. *MAJOR SPOILER*- The game does not try to cause you to sympathize with a pedophile. It makes you feel sorry for a girl that got killed because of her terrible relationship with a pedophile. Murder isn't ok. The girl is not painted as a victim, so it rubbed people the wrong way. I do not approve of pedophilia, but I can appreciate a game that causes you to think about all the facets of who gets hurt when such horrible things occur. As far as actual game-play goes it's a great atmosphere. Yes, a walking simulator with a couple of terrible scary moments, but mostly just creepy old hotel rooms and such. It creeped me out. Pretty badly actually. Graphics were great and voice acting was great. I only docked it a star because of the abruptness of the transitions between days. Other than that I think it was a fun game. Those who enjoy a good story might enjoy this game as well.