One time I pissed off Delilah and she walked away from her radio, but nothing happened to me during that time. You also make decisions that have immediate negative effect but many of them end up having little consequence. One of the paragraphs from Campo Santo’s website describing Firewatch says “…you’ll explore a wild and unknown environment, facing questions and making interpersonal choices that can build or destroy the only meaningful relationship you have.” But you never know if your choices actually have an impact on the outcome of the game. I think it’s an innovation on dialogue choices, but it’s a double-edged sword. Just like life, what you said is what you said and it’s not until hindsight where you realize that a choice from a few hours back may have led to the situation you are in. Choices aren’t colored differently and there’s no screen saying which choices will go into the next day. That’s the biggest difference between The Walking Dead and this game. I also wasn’t sure if my dialogue choices were affecting my future. And that sense is heightened by the very good sound design. It’s the same feeling you would have if you were walking through a forest and you didn’t know what activities were happening or if someone was following you. There’s so many instances where I felt a jump scare would come or something would pop out of the bushes. Walking around the forest made my heart beat hard sometimes. It’s over time where the suspense picks up and you don’t know who you can trust, which is the suspenseful part because you’re only talking to one person the entire game. Instead you must tell your boss and call it in to the authorities. But you’re not catapulted into “find evildoer mode.” Nope. Things do start to go off the rails, eventually. For example, two girls go missing, but you don’t go to the ends of the earth to save them because this is a realistic game. The game’s timeline is marked by days and from day one there’s activity, which you’ll find is creepier than expected in a quiet national forest. Your job as a fire lookout is to watch for fires and report suspicious activity.
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