Others may have more personal weight, and allow you to dictate if you, for example, send Julia to a home to be treated for her sudden early onset dementia or take care of her yourself.Īll this seamless exposition is coupled with bits and pieces of you playing as Henry in the first-person, taking your first of many hikes in the Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming where you will work as a fire lookout for the summer. In this section, you are also able to make small choices that determine, say, whether or not you two owned a Beagle or a German Shepard. She's your future partner, and this is the game's way of giving you the chance to live through that journey as if you were truly there yourself, wherein you learn more about her, yourself, and what your relationship with Julia is like as the years go by. A hazy, colorful background indicates the location and year you are currently in - Boulder, Colorado, 1975 - and a swift click to the next screen tells you, in such sweet, plain words, "You see Julia." In the spirit of the unexpected, I thought it'd be appropriate to share my thoughts on the game's opening section, which was told almost entirely through text-based interactions.Īs a fan of first-person adventure titles, it was an immediate surprise for me to be presented with, well, anything that wasn't already set in the first-person perspective! Instead, in the game's first few moments, Firewatch presents the player with the opportunity to imagine the recollected history of its playable character, Henry. That we, as people, are not perfect, and not everything is as it seems.Ĭampo Santo's Firewatch does all these things and more as it gives you a front-row seat to a Colorado man's summer filled to the brim with visual awe, beckoning mystery and the woefully unexpected.įirewatch's opening text-based section. Most importantly, they show us that we're not alone in our failings and misfortunes. They're real (and no, not always in the "realistic" sense) they tend to supply the audience with uncomfortable truths and remind us that our lives do not always go according to plan, no matter how hard we push for the most desired outcome. Anyone who knows me knows that I love a good slice-of-life story.
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