Mess with the Turt and you're gonna get hurt! Author's Note: If you named the turtle anything other than "Turt Reynolds" then you're wrong. He even finds an animal companion to help guide him through the encroaching darkness. Yet here in the wilderness, Henry doesn't have anyone to really steal the spotlight from him and it makes it a "Henry against the world" motif. In society, Henry isn't exactly an exemplar of humanity. In this place, Henry (the player) stands out simply because they're alone. Henry completely removes himself from the world that he knows and goes deep into "the abyss." Granted it has to be one of the most stunning abysses in all of gaming, but it's an abyss all the same. When the world gets to be too much, being somewhere and someone else is comforting. The argument could be made that escapism is important to gamers, but the truth is that it's just important to people in general. It's about Henry, a man whose sick wife was removed from his care, desperately needs to escape his current situation: a terrified man whose soulmate is terribly ill and in a few months may not remember him at all on most days and likely won't get better. In my eyes, Firewatch is a rather extraordinary game in the measure that it's entirely ordinary story that plays on the human psyche.
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It's in this new darker place that it's all about taking an extraordinary story and making it more extraordinary, which makes the player a sort of messiah as the "only person who actually knows what's going on and how to fix it." It is escapism in it's most satisfying form. Regardless of how the story turns though, the player is led deeper into the abyss. The big reveal either confirms everything the players KNEW to be true or it takes a violent left turn when the player thought it was turning right. Over the years players have become very adapt at seeing the patterns and can gear themselves up for the big reveal. We live in a world that is packed to the gills with games that place the player in extraordinary situations and demands they rise to the challenge.
End of warnings:įirewatch has drawn some rather polarizing reactions from those who have played the game and in some ways it's easy to see why. Just to be certain though, even though the title should be a pretty blunt about it this will contain spoilers. If you haven't already read through my review of Firewatch or simply played the game, then you can do so here.
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