Firewatch - A staple in everyone's steam list (cont.)

So I know I have posted a personal link to my youtube experience with Firewatch. I also wanted to post a thread that would express some indepth ideas with the game. ...So..

Firewatch is a game with limited open-world exploration, deep compelling narration, and beautifully crafted environments to explore. I believe I have only touched on the surface of this. I was able to find the "secret" ending to this game and I wont spoil this for others but I can say this... The game points out highly difficult real-life experiences that we would normally not go through everyday. I believe the game only slightly carries through with personal decisions based on it's beginning series of questions (that in the end do not matter too much unless if you want to be drawn manly or like a flailing pixie). The game is so much more than that though, and although you never have to decide hard hitting questions personally, the characters in this game do. This game covers death, and personal responsibility (regardless if you were the one who caused it or not). This is, in the end, reflective of your personal character (you can turn into a monster and let the park eat at you, or tell the truth and keep hold of your humanity). It covers running away from your personal problems, and facing them in another form or environment (which in my mind tells us that regardless of where you are you cannot run from yourself). It covers the choice of love and whether or not you should water your own relationship (even if it is hopeless) or scrap it and start anew.

If anything, this game is apart of a bigger picture in gaming, and helps simulate what these tough choices are like for those who actually have to face them. In the end, it gives us the ability to change one thing.. Our empathy towards others.

Firewatch, you are but a piece in what narrative story-telling could end up being in the video game world. I appreciate everything it has done for me (even if all of this seems soppy and over the top). I can assure you that just like popular titles like Undertale, you will not regret playing and learning through this incredible piece of work.