Posted on: October 15, 2024

hebertchad34

Игр: 313 Отзывов: 11

"Firewatch" goes to a hotel

All I could think of while playing this game was, "Ya know, this feels a lot like 'Firewatch.'" The parallels are quite obvious: a playable character stuck in the middle of nowhere; the only contact with the outside world available via a telephone/walkie-talkie; dealing with themes including depression and death; and a constant feeling of impending doom. On top of that, the ending of "Rachel Foster" basically throws the rest of the story into a blender, leaving you thinking to yourself, "What just happened here?" It's almost like the developers were trying TOO hard to incorporate several sensitive topics into one game. And while this works in some games (such as "Life is Strange," for example), it just doesn't here, especially once you reach the end of the story. I really wanted to like this game, but ultimately it didn't leave that great an impression on me.

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Posted on: February 23, 2020

PrivateWolfR

Игр: 319 Отзывов: 13

Decent clone of firewatch

Pretty much firewatch clone with predictable plot. You explore hotel being stuck in a snowstorm and talking with character from mobile phone/walkie talkie. About midway into game I was able to predict the ending and I was not surprised by it. Has some Shining vibes too. I was expecting horror game but there are no monsters outside of player's head.

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Posted on: November 16, 2024

LochsNessa

Владелец игры

Игр: 207 Отзывов: 6

Poorly executed story

As some of the other reviews point out, the main problem in this game is the story. The story itself is fine, nothing groundbreaking or surprising, but the handling and execution of it feels very bland and not well thought out. The climax of the game is particularly disappointing and doesn't make a lot of sense, even using the logic of the story itself. The story and dialogue definitely needed to go through another draft or two. A big problem for many players of this game was also how the relationship between an adult man and a teenager is framed as an 'affair' and not grooming in the game. The framing of this relationship would not necessarily have been a problem had the story been revised and worked on more, but it definitely doesn't put the makers of this game in the best of light by today's standards. Even in the context of the story, it leaves you with a bad taste in your mouth. On the plus side of the gameplay, I appreciated the setting of the hotel and the details of the artwork, as well as the sound design. I wish it was utilised better however. It makes no sense that when you zoom in on certain objects relatively close to you, that they somehow get more blurry. You receive 3 items during your gameplay which are used once (if even that), which seems pointless. As another reviewer pointed out, the pacing is strange when it comes to exploration of the hotel - I wanted to explore the hotel but often found out that I was in certain areas "too early" in the story. The dialogue choices are irellevant and make no difference to the game whatsoever. While the game makes a point of the story being hidden in the details, I found that a lot of the story was told through exposition and not through discovery, which was quite disappointing - especially since I liked the hotel, and the story could have been discovered slowly through finding different objects and such. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this game.

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Posted on: January 13, 2022

Inkshock

Владелец игры

Игр: 995 Отзывов: 7

Beautiful but slow and obvious

The scenery is very well done and it's fun to explore the hotel at first, but the game lacks. A lot. The story is so obvious that you can foresee the biggest "twist" that's gonna happen in the storyline after a couple of minutes already. The "riddles" are very easy to solve and 90% of the game is spent waiting until one of the long and slow phone calls finally finishes so you can carry on already. These calls are so annoying. Every piece of information and every clue you find has to be commented by a drawn out phone call that almost always does nothing but explain stuff that you already had figured out yourself to begin with. Either that, or it's irrelevant and boring chatter. In the end this doesn't even make sense anymore. I don't want to spoiler too much, but basically you're getting called by someone who doesn't has access to his broadcasting equipment anymore. It looks like an "open" game, but it isn't. You have to follow the path exactly. You can't take alternative routes, doors are locked and unlocked to keep you on track all the time. Sometimes there would be faster paths (for example when getting the screwdriver, why can't I go through the staff area, why do I have to go "backwards" through the garage?), but the game just locks a door that previously had been open. This wouldn't be that bad, if only Nicole wouldn't walk as slow as a slug, even when running. It says in the description that it combines "mystery and horror". Don't be fooled, there's no "horror" in this game at all. I can recommend this if you want to play it for the exploration part alone and don't care about anything else, or if you have never ever in your life read or watched a mystery thriller before and might actually get surprised by the bog-standard storyline.

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Posted on: December 26, 2021

Regnvaldgog

Владелец игры

Игр: 140 Отзывов: 4

Туда-сюда

Довольно типичный симулятор ходьбы без геймплея совершенно. Игра очень хорошо может в декорации, диалоги, персонажей и игру актеров. Не очень хорошо может в историю. И совсем вообще никак не может в режиссуру. Но, в целом, 3-4 часа можно провести вполне себе с удовольствием, если не смущает, что надо будет только ходить, читать, слушать и иногда нажимать на лкм.

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