What Remains of Edith Finch

Jeśli wydawało się, że „walking-simy” zatrzymały się w miejscu, What Remains of Edith Finch pokazuje, że jest jeszcze wiele do zrobienia w tym gatunku. Fenomenalna opowieść szkatułkowa o śmierci i różnych, często destrukcyjnych, sposobach radzenia sobie z nią. Historia skupia się na eksplorowaniu domu Finchów oraz poznawaniu powodów śmierci poszczególnych członków rodu. Eksploracja przypomina Gone Home, ale momenty śmierci to osobne historie z różnorakim gameplayem. To nie tylko minigry, a różnorakie interakcje wspomagające narrację. Jedna z nich zasługuje na osobną nagrodę przez swój niezwykle kreatywny i pomysłowy sposób przedstawienia stanu psychicznego postaci przez gameplay. Warto w grę zagrać tylko dla tej chwili, jeśli cała reszta argumentów kogoś nie przekonuje. Absolutnie cudowne doświadczenie. Gra eksploruje temat śmierci bliskich, ale nie oznacza to tylko nawału negatywnych emocji. Autorzy podchodzą do tego w dojrzały sposób. Śmierć to tragedia dla bezpośrednio dotkniętych, ale dla innych może być tylko kolejną anegdotyczną historią. Ciekawostką drzewa rodzinnego. Nie mogę nie wspomnieć też o morzu detali. Ogólny zarys historii jest prosty do zrozumienia, ale wciąż zostaje wiele pytań. Odpowiedzi do nich są rozrzucone po grze dla tych, którzy uważnie zapoznają się z otoczeniem. I absolutnie uwielbiam kreatywne użycie napisów.

This game is beauyful1 Great story, graphics and music are amazing. This is one of those, which you remember to the rest of your life!1one

If you measure a game's quality by length of gameplay, you're not going to like this - it probably took me longer to download it than to do a full playthrough. If you measure a game by its strategic depth, this fails dismally - it's essentially a collection of minigames in various locations of the gameworld. The storyline is very well signposted (some gamers might wish for less handholding, but I thought it worked well), and the minigames are so well integrated into the story that it wasn't until about the third minigame that I recognized the fact that there *were* minigames. The game environment is full of details that add to the experience - the house is filled with books and all the clutter of a multi-generational home, which offers insights into the characters of the individual family members. This has little effect on gameplay, but is great for immersion. This is not so much a game as a work of art - at which it succeeds spectacularly. The minigames are so well This will stay in my memory for a long time. My one wish is that the developers had given us more Finches to darwin.

Despite of the beginning, this is not really a walking simulator in the sense that you can freely roam and explore a landscape like in "The Vanishing of Ethan Carter" or "Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture". Actually, instead you move through a house room by room in a very linear way and each room tells the story how its former inhabitant died. These stories are usually quite short and typically presented in a unique way like a dream or comic book. Some of them could be called mini games but this wouldn't do them justice as the interactions are solely used to simulate a certain state of mind. Which works pretty well. Even though not every texture and every 3D model is totally perfect, the game looks beautiful most of the time mainly due to very good lighting and use of shaders. In quite a few rooms, you feel like moving around in a painting. Like in most other "indie" games, there are no real animated 3D models of humans though. The very few humans shown are rather static models with their faces covered, hidden or turned away. Also, all you can see of your protagonists are their hands (and feet), but there is not a single animated human face in the game. Which can be seen as a design element but is of course also the typical "indie" way of saving money. So yeah, this was an interesting experience with stories of bittersweet sadness but a very, very short one, too. It took me just a bit over 2 hours to reach the end. This brevity is partly caused by a lack of content but also by the absence of puzzles which lets you move too quickly from room to room. So I'd advise get it if it's on sale - not because it's bad, just because it's too short for the asking price.

This is the best of the 'walking simulator' genre that I've played. Captured by the attention given to the sound and details of the world before even becoming immersed in the story. It's the kind of world you want to spend more time in, since the play time of the game is short. I probably spent 5-6 hours in a playthrough, and I stop and look at everything, even listen to the frogs in the pond. Jut following the story through would easily be half of that or less. The gameplay feels smooth and intutive, and the guidance for where to go next is subtle and unobstrusive. I'm glad I picked ths up - it was an immersive torytelling delight.